the Philippines the first time we're back in over three years and honestly it feels surreal to be
here in this video we're checking out more of Cebu City and while exploring we can't help but notice
how everything has changed I'm Trevor and this is Anna Welcome to our brand new series here in the
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a huge thanks to our channel members and patrons for making these videos possible this is Cebu City
today we're going to be talking about how the Philippines has changed at least how it has
changed for us because last time we were here it was under very different circumstances and
we are still in seduce in this video we're going to be exploring a little bit more of what we did
not see in the last video maybe we'll be eating some stuff as well so if you have not watched the
last video very important to go back and watch it because we give you a lot of context about
why we're here about our history here also what our plans are for our full month here in Cebu in
the Philippines it is loud here huh yeah we're kind of in the busy part I think this is like
the business sector of the city around Ayala Mall yeah we're close to the mall again and you can see
all this traffic this way yeah the city though it's really pretty very modern and developed
and that's something we're going to talk about yeah for sure so first off we have to bring up
just how big this city is how much bigger it is than we thought huh yeah I know I didn't really
I guess I didn't really know what to expect I watched a few videos on it I knew a little bit
but in general I didn't realize there's so many different areas of the city that it was really
developed like you walk everywhere and you see all these brands that you know there's a huge building
also some like more rundown areas as well but it's like a bunch of different sectors in the city and
even like when we're searching for something always like oh that doesn't look far away on
the map so then you map and you're like oh it's like a 15 minute fifth five zero minute walk
that so that's just some of the things that come to mind because remember for us kind of
our memories of the Philippines are being trapped in El Nido on a beautiful gorgeous Beach and this
is quite the change I mean we are we are in a massive city that is very modern and it's very
beautiful I think for those of you that have never been to the Philippines or to Southeast Asia you
might when you think of it either think of a lot of beaches or kind of like slums in the big cities
but it's so developed here there's actually constant development happening you might be
able to hear construction now there are cranes literally all over the place I'm gonna guess
that in the past tennis years it's this city has probably changed exponentially maybe people in
the comments that are from here can let us know and I'm gonna guess just based on the amount of
construction that's happening now then in the next few years it's going to be a lot different as well
well you know us we are hungry and we found this great little cafe because we're looking for some
breakfast a Filipino breakfast and it's been a while you guys since we've had something like this
now it's been a few years should be more specific but this is called chasalog now we were trying to
remember if we had that in the past I'm not sure if we did but it looks great this is actually
sausage that's kind of browned up I think it's called like Bunga Cog it's I think that's like
the filipino word you can see some egg and there's some very special rice down there we'll talk about
that rice and I think uh banana so as Trevor just said this is called chose the log and the
reason it's called that is because it's made with chorizo so it's like I guess the breakfasts are
kind of called the logs which I think Me Maybe rice and egg the person here told us log means
egg I believe someone can correct us but I'm totally off here we used to have a breakfast
back in lockdown days long Salon which I think was made with sausage and tapsilog which was some
sort of beef sausage I think it was beef Yeah so basically this is maybe a new one for us as Trevor
said I don't know if we actually had it with three though but it comes with garlic rice there's some
bananas on the side and then fried eggs on the top I think I have a little bit of everything here can
I tell you how excited I am for garlic rice I know it sounds really basic and I'm sure I can make
garlic rice at home but you don't really see it in other places but it's so good in my memory anyway
oh my God that just honestly tastes like Nostalgia to me I know if you didn't watch our last video
you might not know the history of us getting locked down in El Nido for months and months
and months now for a long time we couldn't even leave our hotel so we'd have something
like this for breakfast a few times a week and it just whoa it just takes me back I love garlic
rice going back I'm gonna keep talking about this it's so good it's so simple it's so delicious got
the egg I need to try the chorizo again because I didn't only have a tiny little piece back oh wow
that's incredible it's a little bit sweet I'm not surprised because
Filipinos definitely likes we think it's almost like like candied chorizo
so it's salty and sweet at the same time all right she sold me you guys
whoa oh oh I forgot how much I needed this in my life well I think it's safe to say a one
thing that has not changed is the food it's still delicious spoiled little alert this is awesome you
guys like honestly one of my favorite breakfast dishes you can get and it's typical Filipino dish
all it does is make me want to try more we have a whole entire month here to try different kinds of
breakfast but yeah figure out how much I needed this in my life another thing that has changed
for us at least this time in the Philippines is there's no masks or curfews or restrictions this
time you guys I mean again last time we were here it was a very different different circumstances
and uh yeah we had to follow all those rules of course which we did but this time we have freedom
like we have complete freedom to do whatever we want to do in this beautiful country and that
feels really great so if you're wondering about like flying in and what the restrictions are there
if there's anything you have to do this is March 2023 so if you're watching this in the future
sure to do your own research because things change all the time but we basically had each had to fill
out an online form you have to upload your the certificate with like two doubts I think it's two
doses they require I'm not sure about testing if you don't have that but you can look that
up yourself and basically you upload that you put in all your information where you're staying your
flights and all that stuff and you get a QR code and then when you get off your plane right before
you go into immigration there's a little spot to scan your QR code PPP well should we take them to
another part of the city let's do it welcome to IT Park this is the area that we heard about the most
when we came to Cebu City huh yeah this seems to be the area that if you look up like where
the stay or like the most modern the best areas to stay in Cebu this seems to be the newest and
the coolest place to be I think a lot of people live here there's a lot of condos yeah sidewalks
like it feels very modern it's very interesting because to get here you actually go through some
of the older parts of the city and there's like a divide you just get to this new part you might be
able to see a sign behind me there's like another Mall back there so I think the city is actually be
full of many many many malls Filipinos like their malls but I mean take a look just what's around us
there's so many high rises and they all seem brand spanking new there's no shortage of restaurants
and cafes and probably everything you want here I think there's some bars I think there's a rooftop
bar funny enough so I think a lot of people come here and like live in work and stay and play in
this area I think it is yeah it is a work day sometimes you know as a full-time traveler you
kind of forget what day of the week it's a work day so I bet you in a couple of hours from now
it'll get really really busy around here they do have all sorts of Brands here as well people from
outside the Philippines maybe you wouldn't know that maybe you would but they have everything here
funny enough fun fact for you fellow Canadians in Manila and throughout parts of Southeast Asia and
the Middle East we've seen lots of Tim Hortons yeah well some people might not know what Tim
Hortons is Right Canadians will so for those of you that don't know what Tim Hortons is it's
kind of like a Dunkin Donuts for those of you from the states except it's like Canada's thing
but here's here's the real thing it's kind of bad coffee in my opinion don't hate me Canada
don't hate me I just think there's lots of better coffee options in Canada I don't even consider two
horns coffee and there's amazing coffee options here in the Philippines so in general I'd say
crossing the road here not too bad surprisingly chilled out and we should talk about the reason
like why we came over to this area in general huh well one being that we are going to be jumping in
and out of the city quite a lot throughout the month because we are going to well we sort of
hinted in this video or the last video I don't even remember that we're going to an island next
yeah and then we're going to another Island later on in the month and we're still trying to figure
out the rest of our itinerary but we're going to be in and out of the city a couple of times
so the question is next time do we want to stay here our initial thoughts is we stay here it's
way quieter very modern places like this behind me I think it's called the park social it looks
like a beer garden so we might have to check that out and there's just interesting buildings around
there's also some kind of like triangular building straight ahead of us that uh you're about to see
okay we got close up to it and it's really not that cool it's actually quite dirty and everything
I don't know what this is greenhouse or something it's odd that it's in the middle of like all these
really nice buildings clearly it was something maybe it's being renovated well maybe hopefully
it turns into something because it's really cool looking another thing we've just been discussing
about this area is it seems like a good place to live if you were going to live in the city this
seems to have it all it's a nice little uh Green Park over there and if they if you guys don't know
we've been kind of traveling the world looking for different places to live so that's one of
the reasons we're actually back in the Philippines not just for the gorgeous land we've actually been
trying to do some like slower travel and staying for in one place for a month or a month at a time
at least didn't really we're kind of failing at that it's because there's so many places we want
to go see so staying in one place for a full month just seen just we wouldn't get to see it what did
I like to do but in the future what I like about Cebu so far is we know that to get to beaches it
seems to be only an hour or two hour drive to different places and I think in Manila I don't
know if that's the case correct us if we're wrong so it's just interesting to compare the two cities
if we were coming longer than say one month if we want to come back again on our next trip for maybe
three months where would we set up shop in the Philippines question for you you guys all right
we're just coming by a little kind of a markety pop-up shop place here at a bus station yeah
there's a really big bus station here I'm guessing there's a lot of people that like work in this
area and then probably live in different areas but they can pop by get a little treat and then
hop on the bus before they head home for the day speaking of like living in the cities obviously
a lot of people in the Philippines live in the cities but a lot of people that don't think about
the Philippines in terms of like the nature and how beautiful the beaches are and like waterfalls
that's kind of what comes to mind probably when you think about the Philippines but the cities
themselves are really really interesting we loved Manila as well I think when you come to the city
if you find the right area you're really gonna like it so what we're trying to say is don't
skip the big cities at least give them like a day or two because I think you're going to find it a
great combination between the beautiful nature of the Philippines and this modern modern city
we're really liking it we are and I think it's also good like you were saying spend a day or
two you'll probably want to anyway because it is it seems like every place that you want to go to
from Cebu City is like a good three hours in each Direction so you might want to take a break and
here's here's a fun little fact when we got here we liked it so much we actually extended our stay
and I don't think a lot of people say that about Cebu City by that extended our standing right here
in the city because we're having a lot of fun plus we wanted to stock up on some items like clothing
and well tech gear yeah the pace of development in this city must be just out of this world we really
want you guys to kind of chime in and let us know like how old is this area it feels to to us pretty
pretty new but right now we're looking for like a place to get a drink or like a beer garden and
uh I think we might have found it scratch that we took a complete Wrong Turn that's not where we're
going so now we're going to try to find a place for a different place I should say all right we
came over to a place called Park social and this is the place we walked by earlier we got a beer
to drink a San Miguel light because we'll really really liking these what's funny is this place uh
the part social I think is the is kind of like the sister restaurant to the social which is what we
we were at in the last video we didn't know that the waitress just just told us but speaking of
what she just told us we asked her like what does IT Park stand for like that's the neighborhood
we're in this is this new development we also asked her like how old is it because it feels kind
of new and she said it's fair it is fairly new and within the last I think 10 years or so just about
maybe five to ten years so that makes sense because it's super modern and the reason it's
called it Park is it is to do with tech technology I guess there's a lot of call centers around here
but what I found the most fascinating is what what used to be here so we're walking around I'm like
how did they get this enormous plot of land in the city and turns out this is the former airport
like the Cebu airport used to be here so that makes way more sense obviously there would have
been all this empty space they moved the airport further out inside the city so here we are having
a beer and where the old airport used to be in a very very modern part of Cebu cheers to my
second San Miguel light we have one in the video I think our last video I think Trevor just said
but I think this will be the second of many that we'll have over the course of a month I love San
Miguel light it's probably one of my favorite like domestic type beers it's just like nice and light
good with the lime in it could go to and I've missed it for sure anyway let's talk a little
bit about one thing that has not changed in the Philippines and that is just how nice Filipino
people are oh my goodness I'm sure lots of people that have met Filipinos around the world know that
they're really friendly and happy and just like the nicest people but when you get here you're a
little bit like almost overwhelmed with how nice people are in a good way of course like our server
just came over and talked to us for probably a good 10 minutes that she was interested in what
our channel is there's another kind of funny thing about the Philippines is that a lot of people
watch YouTube here so a lot of people inevitably know what you're doing when they see the camera
and they'll come over and they'll ask me about the channel it's a good thing and a bad thing because
in other countries people just look at you like you're completely in nuts they have no idea what
you're doing here in the Philippines everybody knows like you're a vlogger and you're making
a video so if you're watching this and you're like when are you going to the beautiful beaches in the
Philippines it's happening in the next video we're leaving Cebu like basically tomorrow
and we're going to somewhere beautiful we're going to pray to the weather God so we're going to get
the weather that we're after and we honestly cannot wait here do you want to tell them what
islands we're going to should we tell them or should we make them wait now we're going to tell
you guys so a lot of you would not have heard of where we are going but I think if there's
any Filipinos watching which hopefully there are you guys will probably know we're going to
bentanian Island I got to get the pronunciation right bantayan Island it's at the very north of
Cebu it's a pretty big island here I think it's about what a two and a half hour drive a half
hour drive and then like an hour or so ferry to get there it's gonna be a big travel day
but we'll pick you up when we get there hopefully on a beautiful beach yeah the beaches look really
really dreamy and we can't wait so it's going to be very different than these last two videos huge
contrast going from a big city to a very sleepy little beach Village and I hope some people will
be excited that we're going to probably an island that you might not have heard of before yeah I
don't think it's one of the more popular touristic Islands so we can't wait that's what we came back
here for and it's about to happen again and it's gonna be so exciting so if you guys got this far
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San Miguel light make a few more plans plan out the journey tomorrow and we will see you in the
next destination all right guys that's it from Cebu wishing you delightful travels see you soon