hi my name's josie i'm in the philippines late last night after a long day at the airport we
landed in the philippines in clarke airport we got our luggage and then since we'd never been
here before we realized we weren't exactly sure where to go so we've arrived in clarke and now
we just have to find a way to get to manila until we found some friendly locals to help us get to
manila so we we're getting help here to get to manila from these lovely gentlemen we just got
here we just got to the philippines i'm really excited they're going to help us get to manila
people are good very good we're excited they're so friendly already
then we had a three hour drive to our hotel in mccarty welcome back to my
channel all welcome if you're new here my name is josie and today is my first time
first day first everything here in the philippines i'm so excited let's go explore manila
so this is our first day in manila and we're right now in the makati
area but before we go explore as always i need a coffee let's go
oh now's good i need a coffee as soon as possible
okay so we're here in yardstick and we just got a breakfast bagel as well as a couple of coffees
i always start my day with a coffee and apparently this was the place to be
one thing i noticed is everyone is so friendly whether it's here or in
the airport when we got here it's really really cool oh another thing i found really interesting
is that they have banned straws here in makati so you get your coffee with like a fold back top and
it's kind of like a sippy cup i really actually like it so we just came from singapore for three
days and i don't think we were staying in the park that had like a really large coffee culture and i
love coffee so coming from there where we couldn't really find a place to get it and coming to this
which looks like a real coffee well it is a real coffee shop but you know what i mean
in the philippines i'm so excited to see how this tastes ready
that is what i am talking about so yeah and now i come alive
it's good it's good it's good what else do i say it's obviously not as much of a copy snob as me
okay we're full of coffee it's good actually
how much is it twenty twenty people yeah okay hi are you going hello hello
she said we're trying to find banana cute she said she only has bananas like here who are you from
what color is 20. do you have a 20 yeah you got it this one okay you get one which one's good
do you pick one any one go for it thank you so much so we're on the hunt for banana queue
but uh i think there's some in these vendors down here but i bought a banana anyway i like bananas
thank you so much for your help one of them for death
oh i'll show you josie where's my phone oh where's my phone
oh yes oh it's in my arm also if you don't find a banana you can hide that what is that
that's uh banana grease banana is a brown sugar but it is wrapped oh yeah
it's it tastes like it also tastes like banana what is it banana rum
perfect all right i'll try and look for that one as well thank you so much
thank you thank you thank you for your help
see you bye bye everyone here is so friendly tree oh there's a tree
no matter where we've gone there's someone that's helped us the whole way like that's so cool i just
asked them for banana queue and he like took me down the street to these vendors tried to find
it for me he was speaking to them in like filipino to try and like help me find banana queue in that
airport the other day they were like helping us the policeman or the security was helping us
find a taxi driver as well and he was so friendly everyone here the whole day has been so friendly
alright so i just know from being in thailand for six months that the fruit growing in this area of
like on the globe is just a little bit nicer than where we're from but let's try this filipino
banana smell it's more yellow it does look more yellow and it's more it smells a lot different
it kind of smells like the leaf as well it does that make sense that's different all right ready
it's so sweet that is so good i love sweet i can pull it through my mask it smells it smells so
strong the smell of this banana like before i even open the skin i could pretty much smell it
i love that okay now i've had a real banana let's go find one of the two sort of sweet street food
type of bananas you can get here hopefully banana cube let's see what we can find what's this
spring roll how much is it 20. just take one
thank you thank you all right so we've got these like spring rolls i think they said they were
vegetarian and he asked me for some sauce and i said the lady i said sweet and i said yes
and then he said spicy and i i said a little bit but i didn't want any so that was my fault
crazy oh a little bit so this might be fun because if you're new here i'm not very good at spicy food
so let's try oh they're really cute there's like two of them in this car all right let's try
oh i really like that probably the most fried one that i've had like spring roll that i've had ever
in my life that's a nice spring roll i really like it dumps the sauce in the bottom of a cup
so you have that to dip in the whole time and then i guess you just throw this in the bin but that's
a really cool way to do it instead of having two like containers like one for sauce and one for
them just put it in there that's really smart so there is something i've noticed about the
philippines and that's the food trucks on the side of the road they're quite different to in
thailand in thailand you'd have like a vendor with something attached to like their scooter
or something like that or their bike but here in the philippines i've noticed that there's trucks
on the side of the road and then you get your food and kind of stand and eat on the side of
the truck but that's a big difference that i've noticed um here just walking down the street
in mccarty already so just on the way now to get a sim card i actually got one at the airport just
so we could get some data to get to our hotel and whatnot but obviously what's the first thing
that you do when you get to a new country is get internet access and things like that so if you're
coming to the philippines for the first time i'll just quickly show you what we're doing but the one
thing else that i've noticed about here is that there's so many western or like chain stores hi hi
everyone's so friendly there's so many chain stores and things and
there's like duncans team hortons subway lawson there's so many different kinds kfc
there's so many trains here as well so that's another thing that i've noticed all of the
popular things that i think you might get from home depending on where you are are here so this
is really cool we're walking down one of the main streets here in mccarty in manila it wouldn't be
out of place in like sydney or bangkok or like a massive international city it's so clean the
buildings are like so impressive and extraordinary and like just good looking population yeah
one thing that's different to hear about any other agency that i've been to is there is
bins for your rubbish every like 30 meters yeah you never find that in a lot of places in south
east asia it's really hard to find somewhere to put your rubbish or you're holding on to it
for half an hour until you find somewhere or you go to a shop with one there's one here five meters
away and there's one here about 20 meters away i'm aware that not the whole country obviously
looks like this but this is so impressive right here so we're just walking down this main road and
we're just trying to find the ayala triangle so we're gonna go on the way there but before we get
there as we're on the way consider pressing the subscribe button to my channel it really helps me
with the algorithm and youtube and also like the video while we're on the way so let's go thank you
so just walk into the ayala triangle right now but we've seen this statue right in the middle of
the road and i can't get close enough to read what it says because there's a gate here in the
road there so if you know what this is or what this means in mccarty and manila let
me know because that looks pretty important but i don't know what it means and i'd like to know
so we're just coming into the ayala triangle now and it's so beautiful i can't believe there's
just a park this beautiful clean green vibrant in the middle of this massive city this is so pretty
and also we just walked past outside and we had like guards and security guards being like hi
how are you hi the people here are so friendly everyone's tried to help us say hello and this
is such a beautiful park they've got bikes at the front that i think you can like hire or use with
an app if you want to as well so if you want to ride around on a bike you can also do that
it's actually started to rain now so i have an umbrella
and it's only been a couple of minutes for you on the vlog but it's been a few hours for me so
i need another coffee we're gonna head there now and then we're gonna find some street food
we're gonna find the banana cube and we're gonna go from there maybe find some
local filipino food if we can as well for our first impression first day
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thank you so we're walking in the rain and we found this really cute coffee shop it's really
pretty but we thought we'd just stop wait for the rain to pass have a coffee energize
ourselves before we go and find some more food to eat here because it's now late afternoon and
i'm starving they brought out my iced cappuccino and it's got like four little cats or something
in the top in the top and then they've got the name of it down on the foam in the saucer as well
so we just finished up at the coffee shop i was actually quite disappointed with my coffee
i had an iced cappuccino so maybe that's just not their specialty um yardstick from this morning was
a lot better so of the two i'd recommend yardstick but we're just on the way now it's busy so busy
i was just on the way now to get the banana queue and then also some local fruit because we are
absolutely starving we've been out all day so let's go
we found banana q and the other one as well that's so exciting so we're gonna have two and there's
not much there's not ash left so we're gonna get two and then one well is this one called again
yeah perfect and what is it it's got bananas with water
oh
how much was it again 40 pesos 40 pesos all right i have 20.
getting there lots of colors thank you so much have a good day this banana is from our brothers
oh thank you oh thank you so much bye thank you have a good day i got bananas
she gave me bananas that was the sweetest thing that was what i'm talking about like everyone here
is so friendly and so nice she gave us bananas like for free as we'll walk away she's just like
have some bananas let's try the turon and the banana cube we've been looking for all day so
we're gonna try the banana q first it's basically like oh it's like a barbecue banana they maybe
they deep fry i don't know leave in the comments below but they definitely rub like sweetener or
like sugar or something over it but it's more like a barbecued banana type thing it smells like sugar
it smells like sugar like
oh that's different okay so it
that's so good is it good yeah it's kind of like
thick it's like bread sort of i've never tasted anything like this
whoa it's so sweet you can taste like the sugar and the like glaze
of sugar or the glaze like the sugar glaze or something oh wow
yum so this is banana turon so from my understanding it's a banana
but it's sort of wrapped more in like a like a spring roll wrap and it's got the sugar on
the outside so same kind of deal but i guess a little bit different let's try this one somehow oh
okay i like this one you get like a crunch like a this one's good
this is nice this is really nice you get a crunch from the wrap and it's almost like deep fried but
it's not the crunch is also the glaze of the sugar on the outside as well as they're like
wrap being crispy and crunchy as well and then you've got the banana on the inside i
think this is less banana you're right it's like a little kick of banana which is like just enough
this is more pastry than banana i love this one so tell me in the comments below are you
team banana queue are you team banana tour rock because oh i think i'm banana turon
yo what's a bengus i don't know huh what's like
local do you think what's good what's your favorite
or if you love it oh people gotta get it briefcard
okay so we asked her what was her favorite or what i should get and i ended up with the beef
curry curry curry curry which i'm not sure what it is so if you do know let me know down
below she asked me if i like peanut butter and i said yes as well so i think that's what this is
um i don't think that's what that is i think it's in there i don't know what that is um but
we're gonna try with the rice pick up a piece of the beef and the like soup uh curry sort of stuff
and try it it reminds me a little bit of like maximum curry i don't know i haven't had massimo
curry that often but it's the like soft beef that kind of falls apart in your mouth with the curry
sauce with the rice it does remind me of maximum beat my teeth just slides through the beast
it's like falling apart in my mouth it's really really soft obviously tender i really like it
it's my first like dish in the philippines my first like filipino dish this is cool side note
look how cute my little coke is it's tiny i'm so cute i love this because we're sitting here eating
and everyone else has their tables like facing towards the tv and they're just watching the
news or the weather or something on there they're having a great time this is awesome
it's like a little shop on the side of the road right next to where we're staying and it looks
really local i'm really impressed with this meat i really like it so that's it for my first day here
in manila in the philippines from the food to the people to the culture to the coffee to everything
i'm not sure what i expected but this is so much better it's been an amazing day
everyone has been so friendly to us if you're new here i am going to be in here for a while that's
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