I actually like many Filipino foods and try to eat it at least once a week. For example, tinolang manok (Chicken soup with melon), tinolang baka (beef soup with ginger and cabbage), pinakbit (vegetable stew with pork and NO bittermelon), monggo (mung bean soup with creamery squash), tocino (panfried sweetened pork), longganisa (sweet & spicy sausages), pancit (panfried noodles with vegetables and meats and shrimp), ginataang alimango (crab in coconut milk), lechon (roasted pig on a spit).
I can think of at least a dozen more that are delicious and I don’t know of anyone who has ever not loved the food when we had it for parties.
Those dishes actually sound very good! I guess I am biased because I live right by a Filipino restaurant and the food is terrible.