I'm finding it hard to eat out here. Firstly the heat seems to quench your appetite. Filipinos put sugar in more or less everything: bread, sausages (yes, sausages), which actually makes it harder to stomach. Decent food appears to be imported, thus expensive, but not of top quality. Chicken Adobo, the national dish, is not bad but often the chicken is dry. There is disdain for normal spices, and mixes are used often which contain (surprise) sugar.
Most of my meals, with the occasional exception of breakfast, are being replaced with beer. This has the advantage of allowing you to get the illusion of filling your stomach and drowning your sorrows. The disadvantage means that wounds take longer to heal, and you start to feel rather weak after a few days.
This is totally inappropriate given some of the levels of poverty out here, but there you go.
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Looks like something T.C. would deposit in the back garden!
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