Philippines – Manila Davao Borocay – Travel Food Entertainment

 One of the great things about the Philippines is the breakfasts, I have a video here showing what to expect.

Breakfast in the Philippines is known as agahan or almusal, I think that the breakfasts are quite heavy, but very tasty,you can get breakfast from street hawkers in Manila and throughout the country such as rice porridge or noodle soups.

So whats in a traditional Philippines breakfast.

• Rice ( of course) fried with salt and garlic clovess.
• Fried or scrambled eggs.
• Combined with some meat , which is also referred to as a tapa ( Spanish Influence in words), pork tocino ( sweet pork) Iongganisa ( fresh garlic sausage), I found the sausage to be very tasty but heavy ( can tire you down) smoked fish such as tayo, crispy pork adobo.
• Also western style backed beans, sliced tomato and pickle,
• Ensaymada cheese topped breakfast pastry.
• Barako coffee.

Kids usually have the choice of cereal, pancakes, french toast or even porridge. Another option is the Jolibee breakfast, which is more like a meal, see from picture above, this is even more popular than Mac donalds in the Philippines, as it caters for the local tastes.

There is a local chocolaty porridge served too called champorado.usually served with sun dried fish.

People always tell me the Philippines is corrupted, but many tourists never see this side,

I lived in the Philippines in 2008, and made a trip out to Malaysia, I did not notice my passport visa expired, the visa office in Europe gave me the wrong visa!

I had to pay a fee to get it extended, when I questioned this, they delayed me more so I could miss the flight, when finally paid the official amount, they added an extra 2000 peso in the visa office in Clark town.

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Actually I was not allowed in at first as I was wearing shorts, kind of strange that they have such high standards, as when you enter in to get extension, the people running the Visa show have no tourism standards and charge more (bribing fee, which does not get put on receipt).

Overall in the Philippines the people are great, except if your in a position to get something done, there is a small bribe fee.

I dont think was too bad actually overall, as people are never threatening and are always very well mannered, but you just got to accept this this may happen if your visa expires, so always make sure your documents are in order.