today we are in a district in manila called binondo which is home to the oldest chinatown
in the world manila chinatown is well known as a street food heaven so we came super hungry and
ready to eat all the noodles dumplings desserts and everything chinatown has to offer let's go eat
so we're in chinatown now and we don't have a solid plan of how we're going to eat our
way through chinatown but i did pin a bunch of locations in binondo that look really really good
so what we're going to do i guess is just to walk towards these pins and try whatever
they have i think we're a bit on the outer side of chinatown because it seems too quiet
first stop tasty dumplings sounds good to me
oh they have way more than dumplings here actually they have this pork chop rice
looks super good don't order too much because we're gonna be eating a lot of food today okay
thank you look at the piece of pork chop covers the entire rice
no that
wow and it's like thinly battered oh my gosh it smells like salt and pepper
what's inside let's try it to find out
what is it pork pork dumplings
the skin is like nice and chewy this is really really really delicious
you need to dip in the sauce yeah the chili oil is really good
this is a good start to a chinatown adventure
let's try the pork i got to peel it with my hand oh wow look the pork is like super thin
so you're eating mostly like the batter but is the batter delicious
the batter is really nice this chili sauce
to die for so delicious
so we were going to go check out the minor basilica because we saw how beautiful it looks
inside but there's actually a wedding going on so i think we don't want to
go inside but yeah it looks beautiful on the outside too
okay one thing about the crosswalk here is it's super fast i think you have six seconds to cross
and you have to wait 85 seconds every time so we better be quick watch it it's like 10 seconds to
go here here we go five seconds we don't really have five seconds the cars are still going
how is that possible welcome to chinatown now i think we're going to the main chinatown area like
the busy area just like many chinatowns around the world you will see that those buildings are
fairly old the wiring is pretty crazy and there's a lot of traffic
i think we're gonna try this one okay inside veggies how much is it 70 70. hello love you bye
they look so pretty don't they yeah look at that
it's savory but i don't know what it is it tastes kind of garlicky and a little bit oily inside
i don't know why i thought it was gonna be sweet here you want to try
i think there's mushrooms in it actually i know why you can't explain what it is i don't know
it's so different the taste the texture is all different a bit too greasy for me
so we're here at this place that sells lumpia lumpia is like a filipino spring roll i believe
it's really famous i think we should try it
he asked me if it's my first time here and i said yes and he said oh
good taste it's really good he's trying to help me order i think he's so kind
thank you
he's really friendly though he is a filipino chinese that's been living
here in manila for a long time and there's a huge community of filipino chinese in manila
let's try my first lumpia you can see inside kind of exploded a bit there's
like a lot of carrots and cabbage maybe even like minced meat i think
it tastes really clean like healthy the skin is like very nice and thin but
it's just full of vegetables this is like the healthiest thing we've had in the philippines
we've been eating so much fried chicken this is really really good thank you so much thank you
so that shop might be a little bit harder to find because it is down this alley and there is no
signs at the top the name of the shop is just at the bottom but it is definitely worth trying
it's very different and i quite like it why is there a lineup for this place let's check it out
and what you should order is soup number five made from bull's testicles okay
we're having soup number five
so we just sat down at chuan kee which is the oldest fast food restaurant here in chinatown i
ordered something kind of simple it's on which is stir fried vermicelli noodles and initially
i wanted to go with the bull testicle soup but after reading the description i
changed it to meatball soup so still balls yeah yeah okay so tons of people order the xiaolongbao
like the steamed dumplings with the soup and the meat inside they're quite famous but we just had
dumplings so i think we're going to pass because we still want to fit in dessert but they do look
really really delicious i think i ordered it wrong i wanted noodle soup with meatballs but this
is just soup and meatballs it's perfect because i ordered way too much noodles
oh wow see it looks bland it's actually full of flavor it's quite delicious
it is at least yeah you look it's real avocado
my new favorite thing in the philippines this stir-fry noodle is actually really interesting
because it just said stir-fried noodles it didn't say what type of meat or what is in there
and right now i can see like random like half a siumai some type of sausage maybe
oh no i dropped the one prawn that was in there it went on the floor
how is everything so flavorful the food in the philippines are like seasoned to perfection they
like their food like bold salty i gotta be honest with you though when we first before we came to
the philippines we didn't think that the food here would be good we didn't know what the food would
be like to be honest although this is like chinese filipino but it's still part of the filipino
cuisine right we're gonna try our best to finish all the food and still leave some room for dessert
that was a lot of food but i think we still got room for dessert right yes we just have to find it
so we were walking around for a little bit and we couldn't quite find dessert we were thinking
of something like maybe halo halo or some type of like
the tofu dessert but we couldn't find it so we ended up going to lord stow's bakery
and i believe this is a franchise in manila they are famous for these Portuguese tarts
it's really good though it looks so good so i think this will have to do for today but
i'm sure during our stay in the philippines we're going to try other amazing desserts
it's like an egg tart with like a puff pastry on the outside and on the top they put some sugar so
they caramelize the top so it's different from the traditional egg tarts that i'm used to from hong
kong where they don't burn the top so did you have enough to eat today i am so full i think
we probably are at our max we cannot fit any more food it's probably time to go home it's always fun
visiting chinatown in a city though because you can really feel the culture and you can
tell today that filipinos love food we hope you enjoyed this food tour with us today in chinatown
thank you so much for watching and as always have a wonderflo day we will see you in the next one