I recently wrote a blog about PagPag. If you have not heard of PagPag it is a Filipino word that literally means to “dust of the dirt”, but in culinary terms means people that go around dumpsters, fetch food, essentially dust of the shit, and then sell it to other poor people in the slums. […]
Weird Food
Pagpag is Not on the Menu!
As the self declared Street Food Guy, and of course a regular visitor to the Philippines i’m not averse to getting myself down and dirty with the street food scene, and have tried all manner of guts, intestines, the obligatory balut, birds nest soup, and even tamilok, a food so god damned awful they decided […]
Travelling (and eating) in Sagada
I probably say this on every blog I write about the Philippines, but just to get it out of the way: yes, I know the Philippines is hardly famous for fine dining, BUT I think the street food scene in the Philippines is frankly ace, and hell I’m the street food guy, so why argue? […]
What is it like to fly (and eat) with Air Koryo?
When you are the inner circle of the tourist industry of one of the world’s least visited countries, then you are treated to the odd in-joke. One that does the rounds in the DPRK (North Korea) travel circles is that of the Air Koryo burger. Air Koryo, for the uninitiated, is the national flag carrier […]
Vietnamese Fast Food – Lotteria
It’s been a while since I wrote about the fast food cuisine of a nation, with my being about the general culinary abortion that is Dico’s in China, but needing a fast food fix, I ended up in Lotteria. Vietnam and Hanoi in particular don’t really do McDonalds or KFC; McDonalds have one store in […]
