2024 Tropical Weather Thread

No offense to you or your people, but i spent a few months last year working in the Philippines and i cannot express to y’all how absolutely wretched the food was.. both the local Filipino food, and their versions of Western food.. it was so bad that for my last month there, i ate every meal from a TGI Fridays in the mall, and from a Costco pizza place…. I dont know how Thailand does it , but their food is the polar opposite- it’s like NOLA in that it’s really hard to find a bad meal in Thailand, and it’s about 1/10th the price of food in America.. they are both ‘developing nations’, so i dont get it.. anyway, sorry to derail the thread .

None taken. I have never been to the Philippines. My dad was a Sergeant in the US Army and we were raised as 1st generation Filipino Americans with the emphasis on American.

There are many Filipino foods and traditions about which I have no firsthand knowledge. Was born in Hawaii and went to elementary through Jr High in Oklahoma. Never met but 2 Filipinos in school and nobody ever knew what ethnicity I was.

Moved to CA going into high school and had never seen so many people that looked like us. We thought they were Filipino but turns out they were Hispanic lol!

Anyway... I don't know much about Filipino stuff lol.