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Turo-turo (Point-Point System)

Philippines

The Best of Turo-Turo

Turo-turo or literally meaning point-point is an old and ongoing tradition of Filipinos.  Turo-turo is a way of letting the food seller know what you want with minimal explanation.  This does not mean it is a quiet affair.  Filipinos do not do quiet.  Philippines is a friendly nation with outgoing people who like talking to anyone, including to foreigners.

I love turo-turo because it is really home-cooking, which you do not cook yourself but most often than not by your enterprising neighbours.

Turo-turo meals can be bought anytime of the day and sometimes even very, very late at night.  The cooks are already busy with the days food before the sun is even up.

You can buy breakfast such as lugaw goto, a more delicious version of the Chinese congee.  There is also champorado, a chocolate rice pudding which is delicious eaten with a fried dried fish called tuyo.  This combination works because the sweetness of the chocolate rice pudding is enhanced by the saltiness and crispiness of the tuyo.  Yum.  I am missing this already.

Sinigang Photo by PH Morton

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Turo turo Photo by PH Morton

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Merienda turo-turo
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Hapag Kainan (Dining Table)

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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
– Samuel Pepy

The Philippine Dining Table

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We had a sumptous dinner for Peter’s birthday whilst in the Philippines.

We had dinugoan, which is made with pork and some offals cooked in pig’s blood. We also have sisig, which was topped with cheese, again delicious. We had menudo, we had aubergine with bagoong, we had mechado, we had fried daing.  These delicious food were bought from our local turo-turo which is located just a few doors away from where my mother lives.

We had a great time after we had such a hectic time getting to know the new Manila once again.  We were absolutely knackered with the amount of walking and shopping we did, we could not raise up enough energy to go out to dinner.

Thank God for turo-turo and it cost so little too.  In most restaurants a serving of a dish would normally cost no lesser than 300 pesos but with the turo-turo a serving is about 20 pesos.  So we just bought everything that was on offer and they were so delicious.

The birthday boy was certainly impressed and so happy.

It was truly delicious especially shared with families and friend with lots of laughter and joyous conversation.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years’ study of books.
— Longfellow