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or an overly keen new pal, often well
dressed, buying you a drugged coffee or
beer and relieving you of your
belongings. Most tourists who find
themselves in sticky situations are foreign
men looking for local “girlfriends” and
falling into honey-trap scams. It has to be
said that the country's prostitution scene
can be disturbingly overt, especially in
certain areas of Manila, and places such
as Clark and Puerto Galera, popular with
older Western men. he Philippines,
sadly, retains its sordid reputation for
child prostitution. If you see something
suspicious, contact ECPAT Philippines in
Manila (
T
02 920 8151,
W
ecpat.net).
Beef tapa
Beef marinated in
vinegar, sugar and
garlic, then dried
in the sun,
and fried
Bicol Express
Pork ribs cooked in
coconut milk, soy
sauce, vinegar,
bagoong
and
hot chillies
Bistek tagalog
Beef tenderloin
with
calamansi
(lime) and onion
Daing na bangus
Bangus
(milkfish)
marinated in
vinegar and
spices, then fried
Dinuguan
Pork cubes
simmered in pig's
blood, with garlic,
onion and laurel
leaves
Lechon (de leche)
Roast whole
(suckling) pig,
dipped in a
liver-paste sauce
Longganisa/longganiza
Small beef or pork
Snacks (
merienda
) and street food
Arroz caldo
Rice porridge
with chicken
Chicharon
Fried pork skin,
served with a
vinegar and
chilli dip
Pancit
Noodles
Kanin
Rice (cooked)
Fruit (
fruitas
)
Buko
Coconut
Calamansi
Small lime
Lanzones
Outside, the size
and colour of a
8
small potato;
inside, sweet
translucent
flesh with a
bitter seed
Mangga
Mango (available
in sweet and
sour varieties)
Saging
Banana
Desserts
Bibingka
Cake made of
ground rice,
sausages, with
sugar and
lots of garlic
coconut milk,
Longsilog
Longganisa
with
baked in a clay
garlic rice and
stove and served
fried egg
hot, with fresh,
Pinakbet
Vegetable stew
salted duck eggs
with
bagoong
,
Halo-halo
Ube ice cream,
often with small
crushed ice,
pieces of meat
jelly, beans or
Sisig
Fried, chopped
sweetcorn and
pork, liver and
condensed milk
onions
Leche flan
Caramel custard
Tapsilog
Beef
tapa
with
garlic rice and
Drinks (
inumin
)
fried egg
Buko juice
Coconut water
Tocino
Marinated
Chocolate-eh
Thick hot
fried pork
chocolate
Tosilog
Marinated fried
Tapuy
Rice wine
pork with garlic
Tubig
Water
rice and fried egg
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