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    I like food in the Philippines. Aside their local type of cuisine such as LECHON, PANCIT, LUMPIA, FISH, SQUID, BEEF, PORK SKINS,and other foods, they have excellent fast foods. I have seen....

    Kenny Rogers

    A&W restaurants

    Burger Machine

    Shakeys Pizza

    McDonalds

    Jollybee

    Greenwich Pizza

    Carl Juniors

    Dominos

    Pizza Hut

    Chow King

    In Nicaragua, I like TIP TOP...its a chicken joint...also the best is ROSTIPOLLO. Or roasted chicken serving all kinds of rice, beans, tortillas, fried plantain, they also have the famous POLLO CAMPERO which comes from Guatemala, and they have opened up a chalk full here in Houston all ready to satisfy the Central American residents here.

    Food courts in Philippines are incredible. You can walk around the malls and find all kinds of foods and cheap too. They have a famous place there called JIMMYS CHICKEN that everyone likes. The best place I like is CHOW KING. You can eat alot of chinese style food, beef tips with rice, soups, the list goes crazy there. I took about ten people there, and the bill came to around 25 bucks. You can buy coconut anywhere and I like to spike it with a little rum. TANDUAY DARK RHUM. Though not a big lover of rum, I'm not a big coconut juice fan but the wife loves it and we gotta stop for it when we see it. A coconut runs about like 8 cents each. They'll even chop up the white meat inside with the machete for you.

    Costa Rica and Panama has excellent tropical fruits too and great seafood.




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    I love the pancit and lumpia!
    Adobo too!

    We will have to go and visit our Filipino friends this week........
    Vulindlela - Senior NonRev Correspondent - Indianapolis


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    There aren't very many local chains that I've noticed around here in Seville, but I've had a fun time using my limited vocabulary, finding an item on the menu where I know maybe 1 word out of 5, and see what I get. Sometimes I'll just know the category (ie, something cold like a salad/potato salad) and cross my fingers. So far, I haven't been disappointed.

    I've also been at this one bar/restaurant by my school enough now that at least one of the servers recognizes me now. Last week, when I was at a table outside using the wifi, he cleared my plates from the table but told me not to worry, I could stay as long as I wanted. Later asked if I was talking with my family, if I'm feeling homesick at all, etc. Today, he pretty much knew what I wanted to drink as soon as I sat down. When I ordered a half-portion of lomo con tomate, the resulting plate was pretty big. "That's a half-portion?" "And a little more, but don't worry about it" (Said in Spanish, of course). Even if I'm admittedly homesick, it's kinda nice to feel like a local like that. Then again, the fact that I'm not probably made me stand out.
    Spongebue - NonRev Correspondent - U.S./Midwest Region


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