The Philippines is considered as the melting pot of Asia. Eating out is a favorite Filipino pastime. A typical Pinoy diet consists at most of six meals a day. Rice is a staple in Filipino diet and it is usually eaten together with other dishes. Filipinos regularly use spoons together with forks and knives; some also eat with their hands. Popular dishes in the Philippines are adobo which is a meat stew made from either pork or chicken lumpia, a meat or vegetable roll; pancit or noodle and lechon or roasted pig. Some interesting delicacies are balut which is a boiled egg with a fertilized duckling inside and dinuguan which is a soup made from pork blood.