and set aside. Season meat lightly with salt and sauté meat until golden brown. Add onions, garlic, and bell peppers. Sauté until vegetables are tender. Add grated tomatoes and sauté. Add dry seasonings except for salt. Add rice. Braise rice until covered with sofrito. Add broth. Add salt to taste. Add saffron (or food coloring) and mix well. Simmer until rice is almost cooked. Replace crustaceans. Continue simmering until rice and crustaceans are finished cooking. Garnish with seared red bell pepper strips. Variants Philippines Arroz a la valenciana (Spanish) or Arroz à valenciana (Portuguese) is considered as a part of Philippine cuisine. It is considered as the Philippine version of paella. The Philippine version uses glutinous rice; otherwise, the ingredients are the same. In the Philippines, arroz a la valenciana refers to chicken, and longganisa (chorizo) versions. In popular culture Competitions and records It has become a custom at mass gatherings in the Valencia region (festivals, political campaigns, protests, etc.) to prepare enormous paellas, sometimes to win a place in the Guinness World Records book. Chefs use gargantuan paelleras for these events. Valencia restaurateur Juan Galbis claims to have made the world's largest paella with help from a team of workers on 2 October 2001. This paella fed about 110,000 people, according to Galbis' former website. Galbis says this paella was even larger than his earlier world-record paella made on 8 March 1992, which fed about 100,000 people. Galbis' record-breaking 1992 paella is listed in Guinness World Records. Controversial representations Some non-Spanish chefs include chorizo in their paellas and other ingredients, which Valencia people believe do not belong in paella of any type. The alternative name proposed for these dishes, although pejorative, is ('rice with things'). Famous cases are Jamie Oliver's paella recipe (which included chorizo) and Gordon Ramsay's. The author Josep Pla once noted: However, in an article for El País, Spanish food writer Ana Vega 'Biscayenne', citing historical references, showed that traditional Valencian paella did indeed include chorizo, exclaiming, "Ah Jamie, we'll have to invite you to the Falles." Emoji In 2015, an emoji for paella was proposed to Unicode. The emoji was approved for Unicode 9.0 as in June 2016. Although it is generally rendered as paella, Samsung has rendered the symbol as a Korean hot pot. Related dishes Traditional Valencian cuisine offers recipes similar to paella valenciana and paella de marisco such as arròs negre, arròs