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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 13) — As the government seeks to standardize the adobo recipe, Nancy Reyes Lumen - known as the "Adobo Queen" - expressed her opposition to such move, emphasizing that every Filipino has his or her own way of cooking the well-loved food.
"Adobo, it's a property, you cannot meddle with someone's property. Everybody owns their own adobo," she told CNN Philippines' The Final Word.
Lumen also described the move to standardize the dish as a "very rude awakening."
"The word standardize is so stressful and intimidating. They could have not started with adobo because adobo, it hits at the gut of the Filipino," she said.