Pinoyisms is crowd-sourced . . . or more accurately, rice-sourced.
The mangled, halo-halo’d sayings, idioms, and memes we love are both decades old and freshly blurted out on the spot. They come from the same culture that turned funny store names into a national art form:
- Libing Things – Funeral services
- Lord of the Rinse – Laundry
- Starducks – Balut vendor
- Summa Cum Laundry – Laundry
- Cooking ng Ina Mo – Carinderia
- Cooking ng Ina Mo Rin – The sequel branch
- Laba Kita – Laundry
- Pussies and Bitches – Pet shop
- Emily in Pares – Bulalo & beef pares
- Hari Pata – Crispy pata spot
- Johnn Lemon – Lemonade stall
- Egg Sheeran – Egg dishes
- Bread Pitt – Bakery
- Rice Rice Baby – Rice-focused eatery
- Pares & Carrots – Beef pares stall
- 7-Evelyn – Sari-sari store
- Labadabadoo – Laundry
- Wash-amacallit – Laundry
And don’t forget the Rockwell area locals call Backwell (officially Poblacion).
My brother and I started this ad hoc collection, cracking each other up by spouting these gems—intentional or gloriously accidental. Just hearing “Looks can be this evening” was enough to send us into hysterics, trading more butchered Taglish lines back and forth.
Ultimately, Pinoyisms celebrates the charm of Filipinos by spotlighting our knack for laughing at our own malapropisms. By blending, mangling, and mixing Tagalog and English, our idioms, sayings, and memes take on delightfully new meanings—showing exactly why we’re known as one of the world’s most easygoing and hospitable cultures.
Hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Submissions always welcome: galing@pinoyisms.com