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This may be the single greatest reason to some to Southeast Asia. In Southeast Asian countries, eating is a national pastime. The tastes are so amazing, so diverse, so fresh, so flavorful, so wonderful and occasionally, so wierd. Your favorite local ethnic restaurants received recipes from this region, but they can’t match the freshness of ingredients used here nor the experience and verve used to create the mouthwatering masterpieces.
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Chinese merchants were already trading in the Philippine archipelago when explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived in 1521, and later the Spanish...
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