Being The Street Food Guy means that I often try truly weird food, from bugs, to spiders and even baby bee, but when it comes to gross out food, perhaps nothing can take on Pag Pag. This dish is most famous for being a staple of the poor in the Smokey Mountain slum area of…
If you don’t know the Philippines while being very lovely also has some of the worst income inequality in the world. This means that there are some rather infamous slums, chief among them being Smokey Mountain, or as it is sometimes known Paradise Heights. Now I could write forever about why there are slums quite…
What is the Batac Empanada? For the uninitiated Batac is a town in Ilocos Norte that has found fame due to one of its sons, namely Ferdinand Marcos, the former doctor of the Philippines. The town now calls itself the home of great leaders, and for whatever reason they also have a great street food…
As a creature of habit I am not keen on change, but change I did by staying in Makati rather than Ermita. Overall the change was an abject failure, with the exception of me discovering Filing Station Bar and Cafe. This rather strange place, which is modeled on a 1950’s American style diner is located…
