14/11/2020
Aling Lucing Sisig started in the 1970s when Lucia Cunanan and her family put up a gariton (food cart) along the railroad crossing where Filipino workers and American servicemen in Clark used to flock for lunch.
Aling Lucing and daughter Zeny would go there to assemble foldable chairs and tables for their customers while maintaining their eatery in the palengki (wet market) in Angeles.
The locals called her Dang Lucing but many of the Clark employees were Tagalog speakers so she became popularly known as Aling Lucing.
One day, Aling Lucing accidentally burned a pig's head on the grill. Filipino culture considers it a sin to waste food so she chopped it up into small pieces and mixed it with calamansi and onions.
Aling Lucing tried her new dish and realized it was good. She said, “Magumpisa ngeni, ing awus ku keka, sisig!" "From now on, I will call you sisig!"
She started serving it to customers, not expecting that they would love it; with no idea that she has just made a culinary revolution and later on would become the Sisig Queen.
Aling Lucing Sisig has since then been featured in countless local newspapers, magazines, and TV shows making it more popular across the nation.
The sisig dish was also introduced to other countries courtesy of Filipino diaspora around the world. It is often championed abroad by local and foreign chefs alike, bringing Filipino cuisine to the forefront of the global dining scene. Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain described it as a “sweet symphony of pig parts" in his TV show Parts Unknown.