Manilla - part 2

You will all be pleased to know it was the common cold not one of the harder tropical ailments!

I decided that manilla was a great place to watch television and eat great food, so caught up on cable tv and my rest, and had some truely delicious meals.

Chinese dumplings and dried beans - amazing
Japanese - sitting at the sushi bar as a huge tuna is cut into chunks for sashimi and there are octopus tenticals the size of my wrist! I had a soba bento where you mixed a sauce made from a base, to which you added yam paste, a very small raw bird egg, spring onions and wasabi, then dipped the noodles in. This was great, as was the sushi, tempura etc....
Middle eastern- Labna and bread - so welcome after so much rice and lack of dairy!

Went out for a beer by myself one night, there was a pub with a balcony and a girl playing guitar and singing she was great. There was a group of about 6 local guys sitting opposite me, and they were distraught that I was along so had me join them. They were great - all from the islands, who had come to Manilla to look for work they had all studied software engineering and wanted to work in dubai. We drank beer, I got offers of marriage for my cousins! They were quite handsome and fun guys if you are interested Lesil and marilla! They were very impressed that one cousin was an opera singer.

They had all travelled a lot, most had been to australia and had relatives there, I left them to their bar crawl and went home to bed, to get rid of the rest of the flu.

Saw a couple of tourist sites, old spanish town etc, but was not remarkable...left manilla with dining the only reason to return - and you can do that many other places!