These are some sights from this last week.
We went out to eat at a Chinese Restaurant. We had some
tasty dishes. What was amazing is that the Chinese food here in the Philippines
taste pretty much like it does in the states in the Chinese Restaurants. One nice feature the restaurants here in the Philippines have, even places that are fast food, a washing station where people can wash their hands. I think we could use these in the states.
We ordered
Dim Dim which was ground pork steamed in a covering of dough in a bamboo
basket. It tasted pretty good.
We also had a soup called Lomi that was tasty.
We ordered Chow Pot Chen which was broccoli, mushrooms, squid, quale eggs and
other vegetables. We also ordered a dish that had Broccoli and 3 kinds of
mushrooms.
We did not order the grilled bangus fish it was cooked with the head
on and barbecued.
Went shopping and thought you might like to see the choices
we have for buying Tuna.
This isn’t even all the varities. There is sweet and
spicy, sisig (which Dad likes but I don’t because I want to know what organs I
am eating and don’t want it chopped up with the meat), corned, caledereta,
mechado laing, afritda, barbeque or with rice. This isn't even all the choices.
Maybe I should buy one of each and compare the flavors.
I wanted you to see the dragon fruit. It is really pretty but I don't care for the taste of it.
They also eat a steamed bun called Siomai with barbecue pork in it that
you can buy at all the markets. I think it is made with rice flour. We have
bought it a couple of times when we are at the market and need something to eat
when we get home.
Favorite views of the week.
Pigs going to market
How many people can fit in a jeepney? Always one more.
The women and children get assigned to the back of the pickup.
They are roasting chickens on the side.
A common sight of travel
Another broken down truck with branches for warning.
Selling bread
A masked rider
Many of the hobbal-hobbal drivers and tri-cycle drivers wear a t-shirt to protect them from the sun and to protect them from breathing the bad air
Flowers for sale outside of the church. Always available on Sundays.
Dirty ice cream for sale. They call it dirty because it is
mixed with the hands when they make it.
do you dare eat dirty icecream? Jotham says he loves Dragon Fruit. Those cans of tuna are huge compared to what we have here. I'm going to buy some tuna this week at the caselot for $.50. Probably with water and not packed in oil Because as you know those are our only varieties, but you have so many options, that's amazing! Let me know how the taste testing goes, I'm curious.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how big those cans of tuna are! Wow! And so many varieties! Mat and the kids would be in heaven =) How crazy that they pack so many people into their jeepneys and vehicles. If we did that in the states we would be called crazy rednecks and receive huge fines. I've seen dragon fruit before. Maybe we need to try them. I'm sure the kids would think that would be cool!
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