Anon is a complete fucking idiot for not simply walking into a random Filipino’s house and politely asking for some homemade Filipino food. Idiot anon goes to the McD’s of the Philippines, and calls it a day. Filipinos have many insanely tasty dishes, and dumbfuck anon chooses garbage. Dinuguan (AKA chocolate meat) is my absolute favorite.
Do this and get what looks like boiled eggs, crack open and it’s an aborted bird inside.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)
Run screaming in terror to Jollibee :) get spaghetti with so mich sugar you gag and can’t get it down.
Go back to Australia next day because hungry af, get a box of Tim Tams and vow to never travel again.
Hard pass, balut is goat. Sorry, mate, I eat balut every day they come by, just like taho in the mornings. It helps if you have locals teach you how to eat balut, but some can’t deal.
And hey, all aussies love marmite, yeah? No true aussie hates the taste of a bit of marmite and buttah on toast, right?
Taho in the mornings and balut in the evenings makes the world go round. ;-)
IUm, dinuguan is blood soup (root word is literally blood). I like it, but it has a pretty niche appeal, and you’ll be hard pressed to find someone that’ll serve it to a westerner.
But yeah, do yourself a favor and find a “carinderia” (or karinderya, depending on region) which roughly translates to “cafeteria” but is usually run by a sweet lady making as close as you’ll get to homemade cooking. Some dishes to try:
- bicol express - spicy dish with coconut and pork
- tokwa’t baboy - literally tofu and pork
- adobo - classic chicken dish
Or branch out! It works kind of like Panda Express where you point to the dish(es) you want (called ulam) and they’ll add rice (I recommend asking for extra). It’s cheaper than any fast food chain and way better.
find a “carinderia” (or karinderya, depending on region) which roughly translates to “cafeteria” but is usually run by a sweet lady making as close as you’ll get to homemade cooking.
This sounds awesome! Wish we had places like this in the States
Yup. It’s like people who go to Starbucks when they tour Asia. removed, you’re on vacation, go see something new.
“Bitch”, I assume. Fits the context, and I think it’s on lemmy.ml’s forbidden word list.
Lemmy has certain words that are hard-censored. Like hard-coded into the actual code base. I think both the r and f slurs are among them.
Nah, it’s definitely valid to get fast food abroad, even if you have it at home. Sometimes they have wildly different things that you can’t get at home, or in the case of Jollibee, it’s straight up not available at home (unless home is LA). You should probably sample the more wholesome local cuisine too of course, but it’s perfectly alright stop at a Burger King in Tokyo to try the new Garlic Hokkaido burger or whatever, if that’s your jam. Let people enjoy things.