hey everyone we're Nicole and Mico welcome back to our discovering the Philippines Series where we
explore the country to learn more about the culture and for me learn more about what it
means to be Filipino if you saw our last video we were out exploring the big city of Manila
and in today's video we're going to be exploring the food here in Manila so we've partnered with
old Manila walks to take us around and show us all the best eat here in the Philippines [Music]
guys we have found Ivan from old Manila Woks he's going to be taking us a tour of today through the
bonando district I am so excited to try some Filipino foods because these are some foods
that I probably had when I was younger but I don't quite remember hello [Music] rice cakes all right
we've made it to the first stop so Banana is like a really interesting place Ivan was just telling
us that it's actually got it's really like it's kind of a specific mix of uh food here like a lot
of Specialty Foods that we couldn't get anywhere else because there is a really of course Chinese
influence here so it's an interesting mix of like Chinese and Filipino Fusion food and people come
here to eat to benondo to have street food because it's like so special and so different and you just
can't get it anywhere else this is this is called uh well we just call it lumpia it's
kind of like a vegetable burrito it's basically a spring roll but you see in in Manila when you say
spring rolls you don't just really want type of spring it's not just the fried version okay so we
have different varieties of lumpia okay this is good depending on the filling and what's inside
no so this is what some people would call it so basically we eat it with uh with a sort of sweet
dish sauce with chili sauce I usually just put one small drop oh it's quite sticky yeah it's
sweet you said yeah it's served sweet dish oh and now this is the Hot Stuff Cheers Cheers
foreign
like the sweetness this could honestly be a meal like this is half we've split one yeah
this is humongous this would definitely be a whole meal is this a crunch to it right yeah
it has this little crunchy taste oh it's very good I like that a lot yeah you could hardly
see them toasted rice noodle them there's little like crystallized bits anyway they add a lot of
texture this is a fully loaded piece right here yeah oh my goodness flavor explosion
so I was just saying that this is like a classic pseudoturo which is basically vanilla style you
just have a stall right in front of you and you just point out what you want I guess it's
a very easy way to get food Street side food yeah I'm learning Filipino as we go me too
so this is a dish called bicol Express it's a region in different in south of Luzon Island
where we are and it's uh Southern dish it's made with pork and coconut milk this one is
it's a dish that it's probably not for everyone but I wanted to try it anyway you know it's it's
it's pork cooked in its own um blood wow I'm a little nervous I've seen vinegar at meals
before with Miko salad we've had like a really big spread for a very special occasion and I
have definitely never tried I've always stayed there but today is the day today is the day that
she finally tries it I don't think you can get away because we're finally in the Philippines
oh yeah I'm gonna try the Beagle Express this is the pork based one
I like a kick with a spice very good you don't taste as much of the coconut milk
as I thought you would no hey no just the pork pork and spicy oh yeah yeah
oh it's cold
it's amazing right with some rice awesome oh man now the tough one should I eat it with
rice to like oh yeah knock it down a little yeah I'm online this makes me nervous okay
it's very Porky so I really taste the meat I mean it's okay I won't lie it's kind of messed
up with my head you know when you eat you to eat a food I'm like I think it actually tastes
fine but then my brain is like this is weird and you shouldn't like this that's what's happening
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perhaps the reason why a lot of locals here in Manila the China Palace because there's a lot
of mom and pop type restaurants this one is called it just happens when a Chinese
grandmother tries to make Spanish it comes out kind of like this okay this one is noodle soup
noodles and soup noodles uh locally we call them as Mommy Mommy it's like Mommy it's like
Mommy right like Mommy in Tagalog right mommy means anything with soup and noodles and this
one is a tofu dish it's a fried tofu dish that was concocted by the grandmother who actually
opened this place this looks amazing it smells so good it smells so peanuty
if I was like sick in bed this is what I'd want to eat this is like comfort food
it's just a sweet sweet and soy sauce wow and then you eat it with a bit of peanuts
and cilantro so we got the fried tofu the family special
it's really good it's not gonna be really filling a little bit spicy
wow that's good you want peanuts are great too are you like cut in half
that I can try and get all of what I want in my mouth at one time how do
you cut something in half the Chopsticks I actually don't think I've ever had tofu
[Laughter]
oh man that's good so the soup and the tofu are both so good and he was just saying that the
soup itself isn't something that you'd find like really anywhere else apart from this particular
restaurant but like that can be said with many different restaurants here in Bernardo they each
have their own kind of unique Specialties because it's like Mom and Pop shops right it's not like
change and I can find them anywhere else very specific to here I like this I haven't said it's
like an Asian Empanada like a Chinese influence Empanada in the Philippines look at that oh
I don't actually know that I like the life of this oh and
there's tofu in there look I'm having more tofu
I really like the pastry love pastry what is the sauce made up of is it like a pork
um it's called broth grandmother's magic and mother's magic we'll never know but I'm Tasty
something familiar oh my God I even just went out of the restaurant and came back with dessert
and I see rice cake with coconut on top of it does this have coconut on it Ivan yes this is
why I come to Food Tours so I can eat dessert Miku comes with a meat I come for the sweets
traditional rice cakes I just eat with my hands look how like spongy it is
oh my God so good it's very soft it's sweet of course and then I just love coconut who doesn't
love coconut that's good this is the Biko it's sticky rice with coconut milk hmm not as sweet
as I thought it'd be actually that's it's really it's a little bit more mild than I imagined about
that would taste like that's good I swear I've had that when I was younger but I would just take it
and just dip it in Sugar I feel like it's like almost more of a snack than I expected like you
wouldn't get sick of it you could just eat the whole thing because it's not too sweet I love
that it's the banondo district so far as I've been walking around really feels like what I'm
used more used to itself just Asian country so far like it's just like smaller streets and this is of
course like an older part of Manila so what we've been in before is we're like the newer stuff right
yeah huge high rise is just giant lots and lots of new buildings but here it's a lot like smaller
there's still some really tall buildings but definitely smaller buildings more Crab Quarters
lots of like exposed wiring electrical boas uh busy lots of different kinds of vehicles on the
street and tons and tons of people out about doing their jobs just like yeah it's just it's busier
there's a lot more happening it's got a really cool feel to it I am got it with a guide though
because I just feel like this is one of those places where if we're on our own we would get lost
and this is winter melon winter melon juice it's not a watermelon
it's not a watermelon yeah winter melon juice
oh oh my God it's so good it tastes like tapioca pearl in bubble tea but just like
just like the outside gooeyness like the really sweet stuff because they usually
put the tapioca pearl in like um like a syrup to sweeten it up oh man that's good
I used to make bubble tea all the time at home and this is exactly what the
syrup tastes like exactly actually now I can really taste it oh my God so good
oh yeah that's good but what looks even better this is a giant pork chop in front of us it's a
very thin type of pork chop yeah and then you dip it on this sweet chili sauce [Applause]
I wasn't very elegant but it doesn't really matter but wow that's good that sauce is good
to it
it's Chinese it's called it's basically like boiled dumplings right so it's like it has a
wrapper with grown before yeah and sometimes they would put different kinds of vegetables
well what we're having right now is chives chives chives okay so this one is chili oil
and then you put a bit of the uh this one special soy sauce mixture yes soy sauce vinegar and garlic
the trifecta and then you just ah so I like dump it all in okay also I really feel like
I'm learning today that sauce is more important in this Cuisine than I expected or knew about before
that's very good so I definitely mainly taste chai like I definitely taste green onion and a
little bit of the pork flavor the outside is really really soft and just like like doughy
still and then of course we got a little bit of Spice from this delicious sauce mixture
that's real babe oiled not fried very very fresh just me
oh that's good I can't even eat that all in one bite hahaha we're not supposed to eat in one bite
those dumplings were so good and so fresh that's what I love about this tour right now in bonando
is that it really is like a food Central here in Manila and all the food here is cooked very
authentically and very fresh so Nicole and I've seen this food everywhere and all the streets I've
been walking around we always see a little vendor there with these little balls on it with a little
stick deep frying them I think I'm gonna try some and this is fish or chicken fish ball fish Flats
oh
you still tastes like tastes like chip
fried chicken
I tried to fish
it's okay
I don't love it I don't love that
I think we're stopping from ego's favorite we're getting some shop out which is like
my all-time favorite food Filipino food that I had I remember just trying when I
was a kid and just loving you just have it all the time when we were teenagers yeah
delicious no thank you but this one is steamed and fried oh very hot so
I should shove it all in my mouth as quick as I can pork meatballs inside
what I love about Chef house just a it's like a really nice easy meal you know like one little
bun with all the meat that you need and all the breading on the outside so good
actually my preference with shop out is like usually I like it a little bit cold
I don't like it too hot it looks a little bit warm in the inside that's perfect for
me because then I could just like devour it two or three of them oh
it's called Taho if Tahoe is a very typical drink that you get
in Manila and did you say it's usually breakfast because it's sold every morning
wow so it's like it's an instant breakfast for some people [Music]
just drink oh I was gonna eat it like ice cream
I mean it tastes like there's not a lot of flavor I guess I was expecting for
some reason almost a little bit of sour kind of like yogurt definitely not at all
oh yeah it's like it might be like porridge like porridge usually if it's so on the speed it's warm
it's hot I think that's why it's like it warms yeah I can totally get the feeling that this was
like breakfast food all right it's like an oatmeal that'd be actually a pretty decent breakfast yeah
video well I'm getting stuffed we are on the lookout for some pastries to cap off
this incredible food tour man I wonder how many foods we tried it feels like a lot so
we're gonna try out a selection of face piece so you know there are dozens of these hopia
shops in Chinatown okay so this is really what a lot of the locals buy and eat when
they come to this part of town let's do durian first because I start with The Adventurous one
get up that's actually really good it's me it's
honestly quite plain and this is finally janitor peanut cake
we're making a big mess here oh wow so thank you for joining us yeah thank you so much Ivan
uh if people want to book your tour where can they best do that just go to our website it's
uh organellobox.com okay we'll put a link down in the description as well so if you want to
book the tour you can book it directly right from the description really nice and easy for you guys
okay we are absolutely stuffed that was an amazing bonando food walk I feel like we got a real nice
taste of the area yeah it was so so good honestly and I feel like I got to see the area this is
like a really cool like just dated Community here it's like thought of a lot of history so I really
like we got to walk around and just explore it through food that uh that will absolutely not
be the last time we taste Filipino foods so if you want to see more Filipino foods make
sure you hit subscribe and if you like this video make sure you give it a like because uh we have
lots of the Philippines left to discover thank you guys so much for watching see you next one
she doesn't want to say hi to me but she's so cute foreign
I feel kind of mad we just kicked her out she was just watching a
little cartoon show on that table and then they moved they moved around so
that we could sit there and I feel bad [Applause] it's blurry