Bizarre Foods: Philippines

Philippines

Andrew Zimmern is off to the island nation of the Philippines, where he chows down on local favorites like balut, crickets, stuffed frogs and even live worms!

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Balaw Balaw Restaurant

Andrew ate Soup No. 5, made from the butt and balls of a bull, uok (giant coconut worms) and gin-a-tang-bi-low bi-low (rice pudding with tapioca pearls).

Angono, Philippines

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Kinabuch's Restaurant

Andrew dines on 2 kinds of local seaweed (one is like caviar), snails cooked with coconut milk and tuna collar.

Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines

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Everybody's Café

Andrew tries dinuguan (pork innards and pig's blood stew), crickets adobo-style and frog stuffed with pork.

Pampanga, Philippines

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