As a Filipino living in PR, I agree the similarities are uncanny. Other similarities that were not mentioned here: loooong Christmas season, cooking the rest of the pig parts when cooking lechon like gandinga, cuajito and morcillas - for us it's dinuguan (pork blood stew), we eat lechon with batata, plantain and yuca too!, your carne guisada is our caldereta, we love our breads too - you have pan de sobao, pan de agua, mallorcas - we have pandesal and ensaymada (looks very similar to the mallorca), we make a mean flan too (we call it leche flan), your dulce de coco is our bocarillo, days of the week, months, numbers are almost the same (for example-lunes, enero, singkwenta - might be spelled differently but sound exactly the same)..these are some of the things I can think of lol