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Philippines

By Andrew Zimmern on February 26, 2007 6:50 PM | Permalink | 149 Comments

I love Southeast Asia. Returning there for our shoot in the Philippines makes me feel like a raindrop entering the river. So naturally I am out of bed earlier than usual today. Nineteen hours (layovers!) later, I am driving into Metro Manila after landing at Aquino Airport and I get my first look at the local paper. Welcome back big fella ... Let's see what's news today. Well, it's the 61st anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb, anyone caught with drugs will be punished by death, it's going to be a scorcher out there today, it's humid and, oh yeah, I can smell the city before I see it. Turn the page ... Mount Mayon is erupting, there are earthquakes in Fiji, Mr. Janjalani, the Abu Sayyaf's head troublemaker is being hunted here in Mindanao, and I have to eat my first balut when I wake up in the morning. So off I go to Pateros, just outside Manila, for my Balut fest. If you haven't eaten fertilized duck embryos, then you haven't lived. They taste like teeny iron-y liver balls with a duck burp on the back end. I need to get to the countryside.

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