Meanings
- uncountableA Filipino dish consisting of thinly-sliced beefsteak braised in soy sauce, calamansi juice, garlic, ground black pepper, and onions cut into rings.
Recently, I started making bistek in a pan, using New York strip or skirt steak.
2020, Alvin Cailan with Alexandra Cuerdo, “The Evolution of Bistek”, in Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, “Portland Runaway” section, page 2462 more examples
Bestsellers on the menu include chicken inasal ($16) — Filipino-style char-grilled lemongrass chicken with calamansi ponzu — and bistek and egg ($18). The latter features citrus-soy beef, Maui onion sauce and ginger scallion sauce.
2024 August 21, Kelli Shiroma Braiotta, “Filipino food with a twist”, in Crave (Honolulu Star-Advertiser), Honolulu, Haw., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, columns 1–2The menu includes rice and noodle bowls topped with Filipino specialties such as chicken adobo, sisig (minced pork) and bistek (thinly sliced beef braised in soy sauce).
2025 February 7, Keith Pandolfi, “Restaurants”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume 184th, number 255, Cincinnati, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5D, column 1Synonyms: bistek tagalog
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nounA Filipino dish consisting of thinly-sliced beefsteak braised in soy sauce, calamansi juice, garlic, ground black pepper, and onions cut into rings.
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bistek. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bistek
“bistek.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bistek. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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