today we're in manila the philippines at the world's first chinatown also known as binando
there is a massive selection of food here with a mix of chinese filipino and spanish influence
but mostly chinese this is really delicious my name is josie welcome back to my channel or
welcome if you're new here let's go eat in manila the philippines
okay so we've been dropped here at the binando church also known as the minor basilica and we're
kind of in the middle of literally everything that's going on right now as you can tell
i've got the san lorenzo ruiz sign over there and there's just a lot going on there's people
there's cars there's buses there's jeepneys there's everything in this intersection so
we're just on the walk now down to chinatown to have a look around there grab some food grab some
dumplings whatever whatever else there is but let's go have a look let's start our journey
so i didn't actually plan on this happening but i've seen a bubble milk
tea place here and i'm craving a brown sugar milk tea so let's start the video
with that and then we can wander onto some food thank you so much
so i got the brown sugar milk tea i never actually used to like bubble
tea and then i tried this one and i like it and i haven't been able to branch out
since so tell me down below what's your favorite flavor of bubble tea because
mine's still brown sugar the good one still definitely my favorite yeah delicious we came
here with empty bellies to have as much food as we can so let's get going for some food
so we're just walking along we just found a place that just had some like pastries in the front
counter so we're going to try this we asked her if it was a donut and she said no so i'm not exactly
sure what this is at all uh donut no no but it has some kind of glaze over the top and it kind of
looks fried it kind of looks doughy let's try it um it does taste like a doughnut so i'm not sure
what the name is if you know the name of it tell me in the comments but it tastes like a donut if
the light is going up it's either really hard to chew or maybe a little bit of stale i'm not sure
so there's plenty of them in there which makes me think she wouldn't make that many if they were
going to get stale if this is a little bit fresher i think it'd be perfect in saying that it's quite
substantial because it is so like hard to eat and bready straight off the bat we have been to
chinatown in bangkok and that was sort of more of the you know street vendors in the streets
every cart outside on its own but here i'm finding it's not really like that as you can
see it's kind of restaurants it's kind of lined on the side with all these different
kinds of restaurants but there's not that many food stalls um there was a couple of things of
fruit on the side of the road back there but not really like street street food if that makes sense
but let's go look for something i think we were hunting for some dumplings first okay so we're
here at tasty dumplings and surprise we've ordered dumplings we ordered fried dumplings it comes with
two four six eight eight dumplings and then you have the soy sauce here on the side so
let's try these i don't think i've had fried dumplings before only normal dumplings so let's
give them a go oh that's one i have them a lot they're really good either dumplings
i don't often have dumplings so by no means am i a dumplings expertise x expert
but they're really good so when we got here there's probably like one other person and now the
place is packed out so they must be getting the dinner rush right now so those were some pretty
amazing dumplings if i do say so myself so right now we're just walking to place at number two
and we're gonna get something a little bit different obviously than dumplings because
we just ate them um but right now it's starting to get a little bit dark it's starting to rain a
little bit but people are still out eating food we're in sort of not the most busy street but i
think we're heading back that way in a little bit so let's see what's in this one let's keep eating
we're just walking down this hidden lane but it's actually starting to rain right now so
oh here we go so we've come to the lumpia it's newpo hang lumpia house and we're gonna try some
of this we've seen so many people try this so i think it's our turn let's have a look
so it was super quick to get the actual olympia i think
they have them ready to go on the like table and they're just wrapping them up and
conveyor building it for when people order it must be super popular this was 195 pesos filipino pesos
let's see what all the fuss is about so i believe olympia comes in a fried version and a non-fried
version this is the non-fried version but i actually tried the fried version in my last
video so i'll leave that on the screen and in the description bar below go check that one out
but this is the non-fried so let me try it first without the sauce smells good
i've never tasted anything like this before i ever i think it's got it must have some
kind of like it's like sugar or something it's really sweet so it's kind of like there's a bit
of grittiness but it's i guess just a whole mix of vegetables in there you've got like the wrap
the soft sort of wrap on the outside and then you've got the like medley of vegetables and
soft but crunchy things on the inside as well all right let's try it with the sauce
there's definitely a sweet element to this like yes it's vegetables and yes it's a wrap
but something sweet about it i really like this i could eat this all the time this is
really delicious it's really like crispy on the inside but also soft oh so good i've heard they
have this option for breakfast obviously people buy it at all hours there's people chowing down
behind me right now we're sharing one but like i might get my own after this wow so we just got
here to twanky and the line here is crazy it's literally out the door around the corner and
down the street pretty much it's raining the rain is pouring down it's so busy inside so i got the
asado with the adobo egg and i'm excited i've never heard of that never tried it don't know
what it is but i think it's really local i think it's local filipino so we're going to give it a go
and make the lechon kawali i've most definitely said that wrong so tell me in the comments below
but they're both i think pork dishes this one's just like more like a crispy pork and the one i
have more is i think of a traditional filipino food but it comes with the egg and i'm not sure
if it's like roasted or not i don't know tell me in the comments below um but i'm gonna try
it i've never had this one before so michael got a calamansi juice oh i really like that it's like
it honestly tastes like a lime i think it's made out of lime is it lime it tastes like a lime juice
it smells sweet smells really sweet which is strange because it's pork but let's have a go
but the pork is cold i kind of expected it to be warm i'm not sure if it comes like that or
if we were just talking for too long before we ate it but the sauce is really sweet the
outside of the pork is kind of crispy but you still have the softness of it like it
still kind of breaks apart in your mouth i'm a little bit nervous to try these eggs though
i'm not sure why they've just got like a ring of brown around the numbers i don't know about it but
actually read a little bit about this in anticipation of trying some local foods
and um i said it was a sweet almost sugary tasting oh my god a sweet almost sugary
tasting pork which is like right up my alley that's perfect so let's give it a go
okay so throw up the bath it's really nice and i really love the sauce the pork is so nice it
reminds me of like christmas morning at home with my family let's try without the sauce first
so i had like a first bite of that and it was like a lot colder than i expected and also there
was like a bit of bristle in there i hate grizzle if my teeth touch something hard it like freaks
me out it's like when you're in the um ocean and something touches your leg and you're like
that's happened to me that's michael's dish so he'll try it for you hold on there's like a a
piece of bristle inside every single one of these these larger pieces personally i like gristle
if this was hot perfect but it's still pretty good like this anyway and obviously the sauce
being super sweet makes it even better for me the rain right now is crazy everyone has umbrellas so
everyone's in there raincoats we're trying to get to the next place right now there's a lot of rain
and there's a lot of scurrying along to the next place so we're here at wai ying fast food it must
be pretty popular because we have been in this line for quite a long time so let's see if the
food is worth it it's been a while but a whole group of like eight people just came out so
maybe this is our chance to get inside let's see and the line is super long behind us we were
so lucky we got here i walked back to get jose because he was hiding under the out of the rain
and we just got here in time there's probably like maybe 12 people behind us so pretty well
we waited for about 35 40 minutes outside in the rain so this must be the place to be if
everyone else is waiting there as well now i don't often i must confess to eat this type of food so
i had no idea what i was ordering but the waiter definitely told me the most popular which he said
was the beef wonton mommy so we've ordered that i just went with what he said and he's also good we
haven't asked some chinese tea i'm pretty sure which is warming my hand okay so we have a big
big bowl of like soupy noodles it has beef it has wontons it smells like beef i think even water
let's have a go let's look at these noodles let's bring them up let's have a taste so the vibes here
are immaculate we're eating dinner and someone's on facetime with like their family probably behind
us it's not like ultra modern at all it looks quite old and a little bit traditional so you're
obviously coming here for the food we lined up outside everyone else lined up outside
so this must be the place of super good food let's try these noodles full of noodles full of soup
there's a little dumpling in there there's like veggies everywhere in there
and of course the beef which is what the main thing that you want to eat something like this
and when it lives in that soup it just cooks in that soup a little bit more
that is so chewy it is so super chewy all right let's try the noodles not a heap of flavor with
the noodles but texture-wise the consistency is really good and they broke apart super easy
i think you like this josie normally hates soup we go anywhere like this she goes not
soup but we've got it and she's trying it i do love noodles even if i don't like soup so let's go
oh i like the noodles i openers a lot they're definitely like
flavored probably beef because it's beef wonton i might try a wonton
now i don't normally have wontons or anything like that so usually
so i have a wonton in this ladle it's surrounded by all the soup
few noodle noodles in there the texture kind of freaks me out a little bit
i think i've had one of them what do you think of it the texture is strange it's like soft and like
rubbery well not rubbery because it's soft i'm a little bit nervous but
i don't like that at all sorry it's um too chewy i'm getting like bits of fat so even
though this wasn't 100 for me i can tell why people come here it is a very nice tasting dish
the taste is on point we're gonna finish this off and we're gonna wander outside and we'll
see when we get there so while the wonton beef mommy wasn't my favorite i can see why
it's really really popular but i have a sweet tooth so it's time for something
sweet before we end this video let's have a look so here at wonky bakery let's see what they have
all right so we have a pineapple poppy oh what is it propio i've never seen this or heard of this
if you have any information of what it is it just looks like pastry with like a filling
um but i've never seen it before this one's pineapple let's go oh okay it's like crunchy and
hard i expected it to be soft the entire way like i expected the pastry to be soft i expected the
pineapple to be soft it's actually really chewy and hard totally different to what i expected it
would be but it's pretty cool to snack on the pastry is falling everywhere though um that's
pretty good that's nice it was like 16 pesos as well so pretty good price so as you can see it's
almost night time here right now we've been here all day that's at the end of our full day here in
bernando chinatown in manila in the philippines some of it was really good i tried a whole bunch
of things that i'd never have before and some of it wasn't my favorite but that's totally okay i've
tried new things and that's what this is all about before you go please press the like button on the
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this one i know you're gonna love the one that's on the screen right now i tried some other food
at a local filipino market here in manila so watch that one next and i'll see you in the next one bye