I went on a foodie adventure on the streets of Cebu, Philippines with a mission to try some unique and tasty Filipino food.

I visited Colon Street because I heard there was a night market there, but when I turned up there was nothing. So I just looked around to see what street food the regular vendors were selling, that I could get a good munch from.

I began at with a 'Balut' which is a duck egg with an embryo inside. People have been suggesting that I try this popular Filipino cuisine ever since I landed in the Philippines, and I finally worked up the courage to give it a go.

With a baby duck inside my belly, I went hunting for more Pinoy food, and found a restaurant called Pares Pinoy. 'Pares' is a dish I'd been meaning to eat in Manila, but didn't get the chance to try it there. It's like a braised beef soup or stew and is a popular lunchtime meal in the Philippines.

The menu option of Pares that I chose also included a balut, so that was balut for my first two meals of the evening!

Colon Street isn't specifically a food street, but there's plenty of food available. I crossed the road from the pares restaurant and visited a bakery that I'd seen the last time I was there. The Patty's bakery had many appealing ube cakes on display and I bought a selection of them to take back to my hotel. That was dessert sorted, for after I did some more eating.

I really wanted to try the 'Bulalo' soup that I'd heard was a Filipino specialty, but couldn't find anywhere that sells it. Google was giving me nothing and none of the local people I asked had any idea where I could find it.

It was only when I asked a restaurant inside the Ayala Center mall, that I found out that Cebu have their own version of the soup called 'Pochero,' so I ordered Pochero instead. What was delivered to my table at the Chika-An restaurant was a huge chunk of beef, on the bone, in a massive pot of soup.

Apparently the portion I ordered was supposed to be shared by 3 to 4 persons, but I'm 1 hungry Scotsman so I managed it on my own.

I continued the vlog on a new day, and it was a happy new day, as I was upgraded to a better room at the Holiday Inn Cebu, and the football jersey that I'd ordered from Shopee finally arrived. Yes, I finally got the Azkals Philippines national football shirt that I hunted for unsuccessfully in a previous vlog in Manila.

With my new jersey on, I headed to a night market that was recommended by the staff at my hotel.

The Carbon Night market was a place I was sure that I could find lechon, the famous Filipino food which is a full roasted pig. And there were two stalls there marked as lechon, but they were both empty.

I went and ate 'Sisig' instead. Sisig is chopped pork and chicken liver, covered in a delicious blend of spices. I'd eaten it for my very first meal in the Philippines in my first vlog of this series, and loved it. This version at the night market was much cheaper than the fancy version I had in the mall in Makati, but was equally tasty.

After demolishing the sisig I was thrilled to see that one of the lechon vendors had arrived. He said that the pig was on its way and would be there in 15 minutes. Of course I waited there so I could be the first one to be served.

Mission complete. I'd tried all the Filipino meals that were on my 'To Eat' list, and finished off the vlog and the series by visiting the Miguel López de Legazpi Statue at San Pedro Fort, built in 1565 when the Spanish first arrived in the Philippines.

0:00 Balut Duck Egg
4:37 Pares Braised Beef Stew
14:22 Patty's Bakery
27:24 Pochero Beef Soup
40:40 Ube Cakes Taste Test
46:49 Hotel Room Upgrade
49:04 Philippines Azkals Football Jersey
51:50 Carbon Market
58:49 Sisig Silog
1:06:26 Pork Lechon
1:19:42 Miguel López de Legazpi Statue

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