good morning everyone we are Nicole and mico and we have exploring Philippines for the
past two months getting to know more about the culture and mico's roots in the last video we
finally made it to my childhood home city of Bacolod which happens to be one of the
big food capitals here in the Philippines so in today's video we'll be exploring the
best way that we know how which is with our very own self-led Filipino food tour
all right we have made it to our first stop of the day every food tour in Bacolod has to have
chicken in a Cell this place is very famous for chicken and salad which is basically like grilled
chicken Filipino style so we've come to like the number one spot where you can get chicken
and salad which is manokan country which is kind of like chicken country and they got
big signs already says delicious chicken home to the best chicken and a salad the
problem is we gotta pick a restaurant because they're like they all serve the same thing and
they're just like it's just a huge lineup I kind of want there's one called nickel I
kind of wanted to pick the one called Nicole there's no one in it though is that bad news
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like I said earlier is like a Filipino barbecue it is made out of chicken marinated in local herbs
and spices and then skewered with bamboo sticks and then grilled over like a charcoal fire and
it is uh it is really special here in Boko because this is where chicken in the cell originates from
and what makes it really really good here in bacola as well is that the chicken in a salad
is extremely juicy so we got three different kinds of meat today so this is chicken thigh
right okay this is yeah it's called Baja it's the chicken thigh What's the Filipino name this
is uh this is which is like a chicken intestines yeah so it's all parts of the chicken yeah and
then I also ordered us a Thai which is chicken liver yeah a little different for Nicole but I
love this food I'm gonna try liver I think okay we're keeping it pretty tamed right now because
we have a lot of food ahead so this is dang look I mean like in terms of the amount of food normally
this pile would be stacked high if you're coming here with your family all right guys take a liver
it's not my favorite like squishy and like mushy I just like eating um actually the texture is kind
of like eating like a squishy potato or something try the pop that's like the main the main thing
now this looks absolutely amazing because it's like so it's so juicy looking and like crispy
I'm also gonna make you a sauce good Josh Berry again we've had chicken and a salad in Manila
as well but it does not compare to this this is really juicy I'm making like a sauce for Nicole
this I've got like soy sauce in here and I'm gonna add um some vinegar this is calamansi by
the way I didn't know that before coming to the Philippines so it's like a tiny lime but it's
um sweet much sweeter than a lime and I'm gonna add that calamansi into the sauce
rice
so I'm gonna have the liver I want to say the best way to get this with your hands
man this is which is like cool looking chicken intestines you gotta try this one yeah
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it's good
Nicole always laughed at me because
she's always not as funny that my favorite meal in the entire world is just chicken and rice
again
as it turns out that my hometown is actually like famous for chicken and rice so it must
be I didn't know this I had no idea so all these years so much it's just a thing and then we put
the book and we're like it makes sense now I think what I'm learning too about a chicken and a salt
is that like it's about like the whole thing together like I really think you're gonna do
the sauce you gotta do the chicken oil obviously like a mixture of rice and then meat it's really
like like the whole thing you need the whole package and then it's excellent this is what
I consider the perfect barbecue date you know if you're out having barbecue in the park this is
what I would love to see on the grill every single time this is just your perfect day
guys if you can see that
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Okay so we've made our way into a place called Sharon's County house county is a dish here in
Bacolod and for what we understand this was actually potentially the very first County
like restaurant here in the city that's where the front told us at least it's a super famous
One apparently the content is amazing I'm gonna let me tell you about the currency though first
of all shout out to my buddy Robin back in Canada who told me about this place uh this
looks awesome already I am really pumped because pansy is like I think I've had it
before but I've never had a rainbow colored it's like a big almost think of it as like a big bone
with like I think it's a beef bone with a chunks of beef on it and also bone marrow
and it's been cooking for hours and hours and hours and it's supposed to be like Mega soft
like fall off just giant bone soft so I'm really pumped for it also it's like presented in like a
soup so the broth or the soup you mix it with the rice it's gonna be so I'm sultry thank you
before I actually eat this why did they give us
I'm a huge fan of like like homemade broth when we lived in Canada I still
did that a lot I loved it and like look at this look at how like dense
and Meaty it is you can just tell that like the these chunks of meat have been
stewing in what is now brought for so long oh my Lord it is so soft [Music]
it's so good I'll try the broth this is so good
oh salty there's so much flavor in that it's like meaty but it's not overly meaty
which is good because like I prefer not super meaty broth wow also I'm pretty sure should I
like I think I should be eating the inside of this yeah yeah that's the bone marrow
looks like fat but I know it's marrow I feel like I should try it with rice
that's so healthy for you it's so good for me right okay all right it's good
oh okay I don't love the texture because it's like gooey which is just not my favorite food
texture okay it actually tastes like really good like meaty salty I want to get more but I don't
know if I could eat it you know I think it's funny because where Nicole and I are from like
beef is such a huge thing like everybody loves like steaks and whatnot but it turns out where
I was born beef is also a huge thing with constant this is like a cute like honestly I think I would
choose this over steak yeah it looks way more flavorful to me anyways and it looks good and
I love just having just straight chunks of beef because I don't like anything added on to it like
no like extra vegetables or anything garnishing No Frills just beef and it's soup this and with
the bone and the marrow that's very good and I always thought that when Nicole and I started
dating she thought it's so weird to eat the bone marrow but here she is today right oh the heart
Chunk in it it's like a seed okay guys Miko's gonna show me his uh his filipino-ness right now
that's so weird
I didn't think it was gonna come all out and like
I guess I don't get anymore it was also a typical Filipino tradition
is after you finish your campsie you take the bone home with you
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finding that something that's really cool about these places we're going to is that
they like do one thing and they just do that one thing really really well
like there's a couple other things that you seem to be able to order but for the
most part it's like when you go to like this is like a bonchai place and like
all they do is Bon Joy they do it a few different ways I've ever had toy before
um but I've been told that you gotta try when you come to pakolo it's like a Filipino noodle dish
that has uh some Meats added to it so you usually have some beef and chicharron which is like a pig
skin I think the noodle in here is sunset which is like a very classic Filipino neutral friendly
crunchy the Twitter run is super crunchy I was not expecting that okay I like the flavor I really
like the broth this is very good this is I really enjoy this this might be should I say it's my
favorite of the day but that's not true they've all been so good honestly it looks so weird
it looks a little strange it looks weird to me let's see if it tastes great it doesn't it's good
do it for me it's like I haven't had any
crunchiness but I can taste it and I can smell it [Applause] [Music]
okay so that's not stop I don't know that it's particularly Filipino but
it's like bacon Bacolod it's a cafe called what is it called and like so
many people told us we had to come here and try some of their desserts apparently
it's amazing I don't really know that it's Filipino but I don't care because I really
wanted to go Nicole says she's ready for a little less meat and a little more sweet
we've had multiple people here from Bacolod tell us where to get the mud pie specifically
here I guess it's like chocolate ice cream fudge Oreo crumbs and almonds
this is like why I ate everything else I ate today
so today I feel like we did try a ton of different foods but this is a pretty good representation of
like a piece of Filipino food Cuisine and culture because it was very meat heavy very delicious and
then we top it off with some intensely sweet desserts you're right that was super Filipino
meat sweets I think those two words sum up a small a small section of Filipino Cuisine
because there's a lot more to it I swear there's a lot more to it so we're gonna dive into this cake
and uh some uh hot uh latte some lattes I think the next video will be we're not actually totally
sure pretty sure it'll be on a different Island I think make sure you subscribe so you can see where
the heck they go next since we don't even know and uh yeah we'll catch you guys in the next one
thanks for watching just put it in your pocket that's everybody knows he had a good can see
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