In Manila we went to a market in Makati that’s nicknamed the millionaires’ market, and it was quite a lot like a smaller version of Borough Market. The stalls sold everything from Japanese pancakes - squashy, chocolatey, milky things fried in round muffin moulds - to roasted suckling pig to meat tacos. The Philippines is also apparently home to the ultimate mangoes. The best were the little yellow ones, shaped like kidneys, which I’ve only managed to get my mitts on once before and I have to say they were the most delicious, fragrant mangoes I’ve ever tasted. The other amazing fruits that seemed to be everywhere were calamansi limes. Instead of dipping food in a dish of soy sauce, you squeeze out the juice of a calamansi and maybe mix it with a little chilli. The juice is citrussy and sweet, sort of like a lime and an orange at the same time, and we found them everywhere: served with food, stuck on the edge of a cocktail glass, ground up into a slush puppy.
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