Wanna know what a cheap Filipino food breakfast consist of? Would you believe it only cost $3.50 (157 pesos) and is good for two already?
Well, I’ve tried it when I was in the Philippines with JP and I still can’t believe I’d had a very good but cheap breakfast!
To get the best for cheap, we went to the nearest public market to buy everything that we’ll need, and because I’m craving for fish, I asked JP to get us fish for breakfast - for Filipinos, fish for breakfast means dried fish, usually. This cheap Filipino breakfast consists of:
1) Binusang dilis (anchovies)
2) Tomatoes mixed with itlog na maalat (salted duck eggs)
3) Two small pop
4) Bukayo (sorry, I don’t know it’s English name)
5) Longanisang Tagalog (Filipino sausage)
6) Halayang ube (Purple Yum) for dessert
7) 3 cups of rice
I know that not everyone would like what we prepared, but my point here is, in the Philippines it’s possible to live on $300 a month - accomodation and food included. You don’t even need a fridge to eat fresh food (just go the public market everyday), but you’ll need it (fridge) to store your left over food for later consumption. Doing that, brings down your food expenses even lower. In this instance, we just bought cooked rice. If you cook your own rice (rice is about 30 pesos a kilo), you can save even more because 1 kilo, when cooked, is a lot!
Here’s the video of the complete concoction of a cheap Filipino breakfast:
And the photo of the complete meal:
Cheap and yummy, what more can I ask for?
If you depend on the internet, it’s difficult to search for cheap hotels in Manila. Even if you type-in “cheap hotels in Manila” in Google or Yahoo, usually the results are not what you’re looking for.
In my experience as an avid internet researcher for frugal traveling and as a frequent visitor to the Philippines and Southeast Asia, the only way to find a really cheap accommodation in most Asian countries, even if we think internet search results is getting close to what we’re looking for - the best way is to be there and talk to the locals.
Referring to Manila in this post, the cheap hotels I experienced being in are mostly in Quezon city. One of which I already wrote about in my previous post.
In this article, again I’d like to point all you frugal travelers to another cheap hotel in the Philippines I discovered in my latest visit to Manila. Included here are pictures and contact information of the accommodation and again, let me just say again that since this is a budget place, the room is small, similar to the other cheap hotel in Manila post I did way back.
Find below the information about this cheap hotel in Manila I’m talking about:
Name: Honey’s West Apartelle
Cheapest room rate for 24 hours: 750 pesos per room, good for a maximum of 2 persons
Location: 51 West Avenue, Quezon City (beside Metro Bar, South of SM North EDSA)
Phone: (63-2) 416-7797 or (63-2) 374-8981
Click on images for larger photos.
 The bed and bathroom |
 Main entrance billboard |
 Canteen and inside parking |
 Canteen view from West Avenue |
 Inside parking area |
 Flat screen and eating area |
For those readers who leave comments asking for other information, call them if you need more info. I just write about all the info I find while checked-in at cheap hotels in Manila locations.
Hope this post help those frugal travelers like me.
