This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
Anon is a complete fucking idiot for not simply walking into a random Filipino’s house and politely asking for some homemade Filipino food. Idiot anon goes to the McD’s of the Philippines, and calls it a day. Filipinos have many insanely tasty dishes, and dumbfuck anon chooses garbage. Dinuguan (AKA chocolate meat) is my absolute favorite.
IUm, dinuguan is blood soup (root word is literally blood). I like it, but it has a pretty niche appeal, and you'll be hard pressed to find someone that'll serve it to a westerner.
But yeah, do yourself a favor and find a "carinderia" (or karinderya, depending on region) which roughly translates to "cafeteria" but is usually run by a sweet lady making as close as you'll get to homemade cooking. Some dishes to try:
Or branch out! It works kind of like Panda Express where you point to the dish(es) you want (called ulam) and they'll add rice (I recommend asking for extra). It's cheaper than any fast food chain and way better.
find a "carinderia" (or karinderya, depending on region) which roughly translates to "cafeteria" but is usually run by a sweet lady making as close as you'll get to homemade cooking.
This sounds awesome! Wish we had places like this in the States
We do, Panda Express
No
Panda express is as corpo and soulless as every other fast food restaurant.
Story is definitely real, so good on you for keeping it
Yup. It's like people who go to Starbucks when they tour Asia. removed, you're on vacation, go see something new.
removed
huh?
"Bitch", I assume. Fits the context, and I think it's on lemmy.ml's forbidden word list.
What a bitch-ass move.
I’m not sure whether I’m more mad about the fact that they censor the word “bitch” or that they didn’t use [redacted] as the replacement..
I might hang out at the SCP wiki a bit too much
If you're ordering burgers in the Philippines, you're doing life wrong. If you must go to Jollybee or McDonald's there, order fried chicken and thank me later.
Better yet, don't go there and instead find a carinderia. They often look sketchy, but it's as close to home cooking as you'll get and way cheaper than fast food. Nobody can afford fast food there, so all the locals eat at these little "cafeterias" and the food is fantastic.
Lol they have been waiting weeks for you, they know your training schedule better than you do before you got off the plane. I traded a few goods in Thailand, they were like cookie monsters for American made knives, I traded a Kershaw leek for a khukri that was almost definitely melted Pepsi cans but it is still worth it
In all fairness, I do like hotdogs.