Filipino Carinderia Tour: Best Local Food You MUST Try!

pork

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: beef

Chicken is leaner and more affordable than pork.

tamarind

🥗Healthier: calamansi juice

💰Cheaper: lime juice

Calamansi is often more accessible in the Philippines.

water spinach

🥗Healthier: bok choy

💰Cheaper: spinach

Bok choy provides a similar texture and flavor.

fish sauce

🥗Healthier: soy sauce

💰Cheaper: salt

Soy sauce offers umami flavor with less sodium.

Visit various carinderias in Malate to explore local Filipino food.

Order Mongo soup with rice and chicken quarter leg.

Ask for gravy and vinegar to accompany the chicken.

Try Dinakdakan and express excitement about finding it in Manila.

Film the staff and interact with them, asking about the food.

Taste the Mongo and describe it as delicious and healthy.

Order a small mango with bagoong and express allergy to mango.

Taste bagoong and describe its flavor as sour, salty, and fishy.

Order Mami and Pares, and ask for half rice due to ordering Mami.

Taste the Mami and describe it as tasting like Japanese noodles with shoyu ramen flavor.

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