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hello from cebu so we arrived here yesterday we took a flight from manila to cebu which
was only an hour long and for those of you who don't know where is is actually in the
central visayas region of the philippines and on the flight yesterday we were looking
down on the island and we saw how beautiful cebu looks the water is blue there are tons
of tiny islands surrounding it so we're really excited to explore cebu for the next week
so our plan for today is to explore some local eats around the area and also go visit some
new and old landmarks of the city so join us as we get to know what cebu city is like
this place is interesting isn't it yeah it's like a super local place just behind our hotel
and we ordered three things we have chicken adobo the classic pork sisig stir-fried bean
sprouts with some minced meat and rice
and it's really hot and it comes like a plastic bag so you put it on the plate yourself is
the food good here yes very good can i ask you what this is this one automatic water
machine so it's just it's just water oh okay one peso oh let's try it
oh you put the water in a plastic bag yeah yeah okay and you drop the coin okay
no there's no straw you just drink it
leave it first when you need it because when you bite it you have to finish the bag okay
i'm gonna leave it here okay let's try the food what do you call this lanciao soup what's
in it it's the cow skin of a cow sperm of a cow
I think she's joking there's no sperm I don't know this one is a mystery piece oh
it's thick the soup itself is really good very nice yeah i like this a lot we find that
when we were in manila it was a bit harder to find really local places because we were
living in kind of a more like upscale neighborhood but this is the kind of shop that we love
to eat in this adobo sauce oh my goodness now we're talking
chicken adobo is my favorite you should try this sisig though it's like nice and like
caramelized like it tastes really really good
and because they cut it into smaller chunks then the first pork sisig that we tried i
find that this is easier to like eat with rice yeah bite the corner
refreshing you want some yeah it might be a hard now for you
and you can finish it
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very good very good okay let's grab coffee
so we're super excited to come to this place which is called the good cup coffee company
to try filipino coffee or filipino beans because we find it a bit hard actually looking for
local coffee we've seen a lot of chain coffee shops like starbucks and dunkin donuts and
coffee beans so when we googled this place we thought like we have to try it smell it
first
super smooth perfect start to our day so Note has been talking to the rental company through
whatsapp and we are planning to rent a motorbike for two days while we are here in cebu so
the negotiated rate was 500 pesos a day and 200 pesos for delivery so they're going to
bring it from their shop over to the coffee shop where we are at it seems like it's a
better place to do that than manila because when we were there the traffic was kind of
crazy and even for Note he was like i'm not sure about renting a bike so cebu is the place
to do it Cebu seems to be a little more relaxed and calm so i'm confident i have confidence
in you too
where are you from i'm from thailand wow that's why you look like a filipino
yeah yeah wow that's good that was interesting hello welcome to cebu philippines very pleased
with smile i hope can i get a lot of customer because of you so if you are planning to come
to cebu and you want to rent a motorbike rent it from mr jackie yeah yeah hi welcome philippines
just to ensure we protect ourselves Note is just taking a video around the bike to make
sure the scratches that are already there we document them but jackie has been really
helpful he was telling us that parking usually is like 20 pesos and you pay the enforcers
on the street and also you can't just park anywhere so they're like designated parking
spots so this is all really useful information because we probably would just have parked
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the rest of the video now that we have the bike and our helmets we are ready to go explore
the city are you ready i'm ready i'm darth vader it's always exciting to drive in a new
country so this time we are driving on the right side which is not that unfamiliar to
us because in canada we also drive on the right side we love renting a motorbike and
exploring the city of course we don't recommend it for everyone because if you're not comfortable
driving on a motorbike definitely don't do it and also if you don't have the proper license
that can also be an issue so note does have a thie license which is valid in the philippines
so we are good
what is this i think this is the heritage monument let's take a look okay hello good
afternoon welcome i am the caretaker
this is the first Cebuano president of the philippines and then the second that one they
bring our bibles and the cross this second saint of the philippines pedro calungsod okay
okay you take a picture there yeah we're gonna walk around thank you so this is the heritage
of cebu monuments so i think all of these sculptures here kind of tell the story of
how the people of cebu contributed to the development of the philippines it's not a
very big place so we'll just walk around and capture some of the stories that we see here
so there's not a lot of written description that is explaining more about this monument
here but i'm sure you can ask the caretaker he has so many stories he wants to share just
at the top i can see there is a huge cross and that's because christianity is so important
to the filipino culture they've been celebrating christianity for over 500 years here so walking
around anywhere in the philippines you're going to see a lot of cathedrals and churches
and chapels so there was no entry fee to come into the heritage of cebu monument but we
noticed just across the street from us there is a yap sandiego ancestral house and a quick
search on google says that it is 50 pesos to go in to check out what an old chinese
filipino house looks like that's dated back to the 1600s i just love my helmet it's so
intense off to the next destination
very nice costume japanese thailand and canada what uh what what tribe again kalinga and
this one is spaniard era
because we're celebrating the philippine independence day so yeah beautiful
thank you i'm so flattered
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so that was super fun they're so cute they were preparing to do a photo shoot of all
the traditional filipino costumes and you can actually see that there's a lot of people
over here as well just like practicing some dancing and like getting together and i think
this is called independence park i love this place already but the real reason we are down
here is because we're visiting fort san pedro which is one of the oldest forts in the philippines
so the history of the fort is super interesting it was built in 1565 and it's kind of a triangular
shaped fort it was built by these spaniards when they first came to colonize the philippines
they used it to protect themselves against the natives at the time but after that it
was converted to a school at one point in world war 2 it was converted as a hospital
and now they have turned this into a beautiful garden and also a place where people can come
to learn about the history that the philippines went through
so we paid 30 pesos each to come into the fort and it's actually a really beautiful
area there's a lot of action happening as well they're people playing beach volleyball
there's people dancing making tik tok videos it's just a very pleasant place to come to
spend your evenings welcome to the philippines hi guys
you guys are not shy at all oh no filipinos are very proud of ourselves so we don't really
have to be shy shout out to my parents right now shout out to my friends hi guys
bye guys enjoy
those girls are so awesome they have so much energy i wish i had the same i think they
are probably better vloggers than us it's not just the energy it's the confidence we
hope you enjoyed spending the day with us here in cebu city we feel super welcomed here
we met so many lovely people however there is one thing we are not very familiar with
still in the philippines and that is filipino food so in our next video we are going on
a filipino street food tour with a local food expert so make sure you subscribe so you don't
miss our next cebu adventure thank you so much for watching and as always have a wonderful
day and we will see you in the next one bye-bye sunny day we'll keep out of the rain try me
on any direction i'll follow you don't want to wait another day
20 okay this guy is trying to sell water to us from down there is he going to throw it
here's a 100 i got change already crumble it up ready
thank you
oh i was so thirsty
he knew i was watching
they're so friendly i love it