What do you want to try?

In the next few weeks I’ll be heading off for a short holiday. I want to escape the cold in China for a week to 10 days and jet off to and go island hopping in the Philippines. As normal before I go, I have been checking out things to do, places to go and things to see. I have a bit of a plan, but then it came to food.

I have a friend that has been living there for a few years now. So I started asking her what the local food was like? Were there any good restaurants or places that she would recommend? Are there any one day cooking classes/ experiences I could do. Her response wasn’t so good. She said everything is just fried in oil. No need to explore any further. This disappointed me slightly.

So I started to dig a little deeper, searching online in different apps, websites and videos. One of the islands I will visit is Bohol. It has a bee farm and an oyster farm. I do like honey in my porridge and rice pudding. So I’ll have to call in there and see what it’s like keeping bees in a tropical paradise. Oysters, I’m not so keen on. Give me a big plate of scallops and I’m super happy. So we shall have to see how oysters are cooked here.

I do think that when we live in a place there is soo much that we miss as we aren’t looking for it. It’s very easy to keep going to the same place. Fall into the same habit.

I remember reading a study before about food tasting better on holiday. It was all to do with your mood. The food didn’t taste any better than normal, you were just happy to be on holiday and were more open to tasting food as to eating food.

So when I jet off, looking for a bit of that winter sun (I can’t wait to get a bit of a tan). I will be trying to find some local food that is a bit out of the ordinary. A little bit different from what my friend has told me. I want to get a taste of both sides, the food you get as a local and the food you get a tourist. This is one way I find that you get a better experience of the country and culture. This will not be a trip to Benidorm, conquered by the English many years ago. As much British food as you can handle in the hot Spanish sun. No thanks.

So I look forward to to bringing you guys some videos and pictures back from my travels and hopefully a new dish or two.