My Wife studied and lived near by with her family in laguna.
The foods were not to exotic, for me and previously i was only used to the local chinese.
Lots of chicken, pork and fish.
Ask for crispy pata if you like roast pork.
Another is chicken, pork adobo which is a common dish.
Beef steak which is soy sauce and onions with fried beef if i remeber correctly.
If you like peanut flavouring how about kare kare?
Loads of fairly simple dishs.
I very much doubt your family will feed you dog. If your worried go with them to a SM and help buy the foods [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]