hi my name is josie and we are now in the poblacion area of manila in
the philippines you'll have to watch to see how we ended up here but we started
in the salcedo saturday market this morning where we tried some award-winning street food
the market is a community market that's over 15 years old and it's grown and grown over time then
we head to poblacion a vibrant local suburb right here in the heart of manila let's go and explore
the philippines so welcome back or welcome if you are new here my name is josie welcome to my
channel we are on the way to the salcedo saturday market here in makati manila in the philippines i
have no idea what to expect let's see what's around and let's go grab something to eat but
first we're on the way we are walking so let's see a little bit of what mccarty city looks like
so we've got about another 800 or so meters to go another kilometer
it's quite warm today actually but it's um the first blue sky there's the first blue sky today
it doesn't look like it's gonna rain but you never know last night it absolutely poured
on us when we're at the mall of asia um but we're just heading down here i'm starving it's
probably around way past breakfast time so let's keep walking and get some food
so that is a jeepney so it's kind of almost like a song towel or like a bus
or something like that and you can catch them around the city but i believe you kind of have to
know where you're going or tell them where you're going and we don't know where to tell them to go
so they run a designated route but you have to know where you're getting off
yeah and the difference we don't know where we're getting off so oh we're gonna cross the road
but they're all around here and they are you can use them to get around as well if you want to
okay it looks like we're coming up to the market now
this is really exciting it looks really fun there looks like we're ready to be like
little jars of food and things so let's okay let's go read i guess
all right so we've gotten here there seems to be just stalls around the market and lots of little
ones set up inside there's like a little park here as well and also markets on the outside on the
side of the road also i'm not sure where to start so we're walking past all these markets just at
the front and we saw one called like an ube cheese pancake or something and i ordered it and then i
realized i have no idea what that is so i'm going to have a quick look we've googled it the pancake
is indonesian pancake now the pancake style is indonesian pancake but the ube is filipino right
filipino like yam or it's dessert made from boiled and mashed po mashed purple yam perfect all right
let's try it so it's really interesting because i'm seeing lots of fruits that i've noticed from
thailand like we have like long kong durian jackfruit ramptan obviously they're not just for
thailand we're in philippines but it's just interesting seeing familiar things because now i
know what they are but you have heaps of different fruit you also have like plants here things that
you can take home like food you can take home food you can buy so we're just having a look all
around the outside and then we're going back for the pancake because it has to be cooked so we're
getting three pork sticks for 100 pesos and they like grill it on the bbq the thank you they grill
them out the back on these barbecues and like turn them they marinate them they chuck the marinade on
top they cook them all up turn them over make sure they're cooked all around and this is what
you end up with and i'm telling you now i know you can't smell this smells absolutely delicious
my mouth is salivating waiting to eat these so let's see how we go these ones are the pork ones
okay hold on
i love the marinade marinade is like sweet honey i'm not sure what it is but it's really nice it
makes a pork taste so good maybe it's not teriyaki it's sweet something but the pork
itself is a little bit um a little bit chewy not as soft it smells so good super sweet but i'll
tell you this for aussies watching the kebabs you buy from woolies they cook on the barbecue at home
the beef ones it tastes like that hey it might be a bit of teriyaki
it's really sweet i'm having another one that's how good they are the more i'm having on this
they're like more tender it is that's really good this one's really um really soft and tender
we have to go back for that pancake now so so while we're on the way back to get this pancake
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pancake and let's try it cheese pancake very interesting let's go with your barbecue potted
yeah it was delicious everyone here is so friendly i love it okay so this one is so interesting i've
never seen anything like this before you can see that it's a pancake it's a really thick cut
pancake it's purple i guess that's where like the yam comes into into play and then you've got like
the layer of cheese on the inside all right let's try i've never seen this before ever in my life
oh why do i like this this is so cool oh wow wow whoa whoa it is so good the like cheese like melts
like a really nice kind of cream cheese sort of flavor the pancakes a little bit
crispy on the outside obviously from when they cooked it i don't know why i like that so much
it's cheese and pancake why does it work i like this it's my favorite so far today
all right let's feel good that's incredible the pancake is genuinely so fluffy i can't explain
on camera how fluffy the pancake is i feel like if i dropped it it would bounce back up
into my hand because this is like so absorbent it's like super fluffy oh this is the best mmm
oh good all right so i see it's so hot today this is probably the hottest day here since
arriving in the philippines i'm gonna grab a watermelon juice it looks so fresh
so they poured the watermelon juice into the cup and it was 60 pesos for this large size
of watermelon juice hopefully it's nice and cold because it is a hot day today um they had
different flavors there as well they had like buco and melon what's buco bako tell me in the comments
below if you know what that is i've never heard of that before let me try this watermelon juice that
tastes like a full-on watermelon they've juiced a watermelon there well of course they have it
i know but it literally if you taste a watermelon it's exactly what it's like you know how sometimes
you have juice and it tastes like sugary or sugar syrupy it just tastes like water
so i was walking past those crabs and i saw that they were named male and then a different name and
i asked him if it was female but he told me that there um there's actually three genders of crab
and that was the third one oh oh oh that movie oh yeah you notice that the apron is conical
the apron is uh yeah i say a little bit wider ah i see that was really fun to know but here i see uh
lumpia shanghai which i think i don't know about the actual official list but i think
one of them says it was voted the best street food it was we won a street food award last
year where it was number one and tied number one with another filipino dish that we haven't
had yet that we'll try soon because this was number one so we should try it all right i
don't know what it is but let's give it a go can i get a uh olympia shanghai i love you online
uh do you want three for 100 yes please thank you so much thank you thank you
all right i'm gonna try this best street food item she said there's pork on the inside so that's
interesting it smells like that it smells like there's like a it's like a meat wrap which i guess
is what it is let's try it tastes like a like a floppy sort of cold spring roll version yeah it's
a version of it which makes sense it's really the first thing that strikes me is like pretty oily
and really like floppy and cold so you're like not crispy like a normal spring roll is
like a dim similar spring roll mix together there's veggies in there as well
might be a bit of carrot or something there so the veggies in there alongside the pork
pretty cool snack okay just to walk along with i'll say my favorite of the day so far
by far was the pancake what was yours the pancake yeah the pancake was so
good but we've done like a whole lap basically of this square around the park that has the market in
it so let's have one last look and then i think we might head to grab another coffee grab something
maybe else to eat there and go from there because it's really really hot right now let's get moving
so we're in the more of the publishing area now of mccarty it's more aware i feel like if you're like
backpacking mostly you'd come here i've heard it's a little bit of a cheaper budget um but there's
more things here there's like bars coffee shops like nightlife and things like that but we haven't
been here before this is a different part of manila that we haven't explored yet let's go have
a look and see what's around this way i really need a coffee so let's go find one and then find
some more food so this is a tricycle we haven't gotten one yet mostly because i don't think
will fit but it's another way of to get around kind of like a another tuk-tuk kind of thing
but you have to be quite small to fit in that and i don't think i qualify
okay got my coffee so i actually ordered from grab um this coffee shop um the other day and i
quite liked it it's in such a really cute cup it's like short and it's just really cute and
it has like a flip cup because we know that they don't have like many plastic straws around here
which is really cool and i kind of liked it so we decided since we're in the publishing area
that we'll come and actually come to the shop and try it out it's really small in
there um so i couldn't fit the camera in actually i would sit for a second and have
a have a coffee that's the story of my life actually having coffee
pretty good fresh and cold we've been walking for quite a while um that's a pretty good coffee so
tell me what your favorite coffee shop is here in the philippines or in manila all right let's
sit here let's finish this coffee and then we might find lunch um we might find something
maybe mexican maybe feeling some quesadillas or something like that so stay tuned to find out what
we have find out where we go and we'll see when we get there so it is raining right now so we might
just wait a second and then we'll head on but it might actually be refreshing to walk in the rain
so we're here in el chupacabra and you may be wondering why are you eating mexican
spanish food if you're in the philippines well besides the fact that it's delicious
the philippines was actually colonised by spain for almost 500 years to my understanding
so there's actually a lot of spanish influence everywhere in the city in the names of the streets
you might notice that this suburb itself is called publicion and it even goes all
the way to people's last names are also kind of spanish the spanish also brought christianity
which is pretty much the dominant religion here in the philippines still to this day so
that's why there's so much mexican and spanish food all throughout the philippines so that's
why filipino culture has like a lot of spanish influence to it which i found pretty interesting
so that is the end to another amazing day here in manila the philippines i am so excited i have been
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