The Philippines Heartbreaking Street Food!! Garbage Can Chicken / Pag Pag!!

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For the show in this video, we are tackling Asia's most

heartbreaking

street

food deep in the alleys of Manila. You might get some big chunks out of the trash that have a lot of protein, but there are also some chunks like this that I've certainly eaten, but first let's back up. The Philippines was the first country I went to in search of strange food. I really hope this

chicken

didn't have Crohn's disease to begin with. Trolling commenters encourage me to try their country's most popular food. The taboo food is called pugp, fast food that is thrown away, picked from the trash, then cooked again and resold on the

street

s.

You don't know how long it's been there, so it could have been mixed with dangerous chemicals. It could have been exposed now contaminated with different bacteria. 8 years after setting foot in the Philippines, I'm finally up to the challenge, what are you doing to transform this food? How do you wash with just water? Today I am on a mission to understand how HG poop production works and why, despite all the dangers, this dark trend still continues. Have you ever seen food that you don't preserve? Is there ever food in such bad condition that you just keep it in the TR?

It all starts with the Philippines' most beloved fast food chain right behind me. Jollibee, a Filipino fast food restaurant, a chain, a franchise that has spread all over the world, is the pride of this country for many Filipinos, coming here is like a special occasion, they have spaghetti, they have hamburgers, but they are more Famous. Their fried

chicken

, oh you, it's a world you're probably familiar with, the local fast food place, pop in for a quick bite, place an order, sink your teeth into your favorite guilty pleasure and discard the rest, you've got me Well, how little did you know?

In a parallel reality, the first link in a new food chain has just begun. Some people in the Philippines have taken drastic measures to sell and consume POG poog, the discarded recycled food that comes from this restaurant. If you're in Manila, there's a good chance that in this

garbage

field uneaten leftover fried chicken will soon reappear as someone else's food, but how does this underground food chain work? Welcome to the fever mobile, this will be my main means of transportation while we are here in the Philippines. Right now we are heading from Jolly Be to a place called Happy Land in the chaotic sprawl of Manila, a city that is home to 15 million souls.

We will discover the full spectrum of existence. Look up and that's the hope. Skyscrapers pulsating with energy and ambition offer a whirlwind of possibilities both exhilarating and daunting, but within the shadows cast by these towering structures a stark reality is revealed, a disconcerting part of the city's identity welcome to Happyland, the slum. largest in Manila, this is where the creation of POG poog finds its proper audience for those with no purchasing power and many times cheaper than the real thing, ma'am, nice to meet you, do you live here in Happyland and why do you think they call it So?

She doesn't know, it seems like some of the dark humor I've ever seen. images of this place before being online coming here in person the reality is that when you walk these streets the vibe is not really what you would expect it's not that there isn't adversity there are many things it's how people deal with them people seem happy, they're playing, they're happy, exactly, find me here, chewy, a young Filipino who documents every food he can find in this archipelago, he's also my go-to Sherpa when dining options seem daunting during this Lon food tour, so it stays of course, we are in a

garbage

dump right now it is garbage it smells completely rancid in here she is one of the many people here who sift through the garbage now she takes a clean bag she checks the garbage bag and does what she does every morning bags full of decomposing remains of the last The night's fast food banquet is collected and brought here to be sorted.

Do you ever see food that you don't preserve? Is there ever food in such bad condition that you just put it in the trash? The condition of the POG po can vary from Mostly intact. The food is partially consumed or damaged, but all are exposed to the relentless heat of the Manila sun all day long. As for quality assurance, that depends on the person sorting them, he said he knows by his eyes if the food is already spoiled or not because sometimes it's like more on the wet side so they throw it away and then They just stick with the fresh food or the pag pug which is also edible.

Is this the only way to make money? Abandon all conceptions of comfort, convenience and what is. It is considered essential here below the poverty line, the rules are rewritten. The flimsy walls and makeshift roof create a shelter that can fit a dozen people. Privacy is a luxury, whether it's food, fashion or accessories. Everything new was born from something old, recycled or discarded. Here it is rescued. Typically, the food is sold to nearby POG poog vendors for further processing, but not in the case of Evelyn, known locally as the POG poog queen. Evelyn handles the entire process herself and adds her own unique touch, turning survival food into a local favorite.

The person to go to if I want to try Pugp is like this. We already met a woman who makes a living collecting the Pug POG from the garbage dump. Here it seems that they deliver the bags directly to your stall. How are you doing at work? Who brings you this? Then there is a distributor that distributes a different fast food like that, so why not ask someone to sort it for you? Why do you sort it yourself for quality control? mhm M QA you know this is a unique type of food I'm curious to know how your journey with POG started POG how did you get started with all this huh okay so she said that, she learned it from her father when they were kids, they ate it like that before selling it.

P, she is selling like this. common food philippine food she has a creepy little car area exactly so why are you going from ceria to PP? It's more available to her community because it's very cheap basically said because it's delicious, it's delicious, delicious, delicious, very soon. I'll try your fried pock po, but my big question is what are you doing to transform this food into something that was destined for the landfill? The first process he washed it twice with water and then just rinsed it like this, after that he washed it well. she will boil it, which is like the third cleaning or washing process, so maybe all the bacteria are gone like that despite the assumption that rinsing with water removes harmful bacteria, a lingering risk still remains when I think of pugpug, I only think about fried chicken, but how many different types of pugpug are there?

Besides fried chicken, it has two other dishes called ppug and P adobo, which is the most popular. A. Okay, I'm comfortable trying that any of these foods may contain dangerous bacteria or toxins that pose potential threats like food poisoning, diarrhea, typhoid, hepatitis, and more. Despite that, people here still opt for POG POG without hesitation and I will soon do the same but first I head to the bustling streets of tondo where another variety of recycled food is fed. Locals, unlike POGP, don't spend time in a trash can, but a risk still remains. I understand that hotels sell it to them, but I wonder if there is any food safety standard?

I doubt there is any standard that meets me here taton a well known figure in the Philippines with an extensive resume, he is a chef, writer and culinary heritage advocate and like me he has never tried pogp, yes I haven't tried it and I have Pretty scary, MH, but I'm willing to try it. So why scare you? You know it's something that's unusual, especially knowing that technically yes, food from the trash is usually destined for landfills or fertilizer, but it's so mind-blowing to think that people eat the food knowing it came from the trash. It's not a secret, yeah, there's no cheating, we're working our way up to the Puck record, but before we try, we're trying something else, there's a food stand serving what I'm told is recycled meat, yeah, what does that mean? that?

This is spicy monkey. double cooked meat a creation of the lda family with a recipe that lasts almost three decades it is actually like restaurants by products, for example, we have large hotels boiling kilos of meat just to obtain broth or whatever so that they are basically clean, it's just that it has less flavor, it doesn't taste like anything anymore and instead of just throwing it away, they resell it to people they know and making a business out of it is also something that is very entrepreneurial in a sense, ma'am, good morning , good morning. day it's a pleasure to meet you I'm happy to be here translate she understands oh you understand oh you're good this position started a long time ago from the beginning this meat came from where the seller also inherited the business and now continues to supply it for the Next Generation, do you think Is it legal for them to sell it this way?

Are there regulations or health standards around hotels that sell meat to individuals? Certificate for her to get a certificate from the management to allow them to sell the leftovers and she has also been to the hotel so she knows it is clean and she knows the quality is good because she would never sell something that would be bad for her customers, for Of course, the question is that meat has no flavor, how do you bring it back to life? so you just add all the ingredients to make it delicious and cook it with love, okay yes, and by love he meant soy sauce, lots of it, add salt and color to the shredded meat, then marinate it with vinegar, onion and chili , and cook it over low heat until the meat absorbs all that flavor what animal it comes from this is a mix of beef and pork now it's time to cook it The garlic hits the hot oil then comes the onion the chilies and the meat They are mixed and then force fed with this protein with even more flavor soup-based seasoning salt sugar sugar black pepper and oyster sauce stir it until the meat is crispy caramelized with the seasoning then serve on the plate and eat ready it smells good hello oh spicy, really spicy, in fact, it is very crunchy and somewhat roasted caramelized, it tastes like soy sauce it has a very very salty taste, what do local people like about this recipe?

People like it because of the spicy taste, because when they come back for it, the customers who come here know where the meat comes from, generally, people here trust street food vendors when it comes to knowing where the meat comes from. meat, knowing it's fresh and safe to eat so a lot of people assume it's clean because she sees her working here and they've been eating it for so long so there's no problem with that and she feeds it to them too to his family, so you know he's really good. I think it comes from a hotel, but she cooks it a lot and then puts a lot of salt on it, it makes me think it's much more. safe to eat, she also makes it tastier.

This would be great with a beer. Send me to the red horse. Yes, now that we've dipped our toes into the world of recycled food, it's time for the real thing and there's no turning back from here. We have returned to Happyland just in time to witness the pogp cooking process. So how does Evelyn transform trash into something tasty? She is using unique ingredients and the secret ingredient is a spray. Start with a protein selection that varies each day and could include sausages. empanadas orpieces of chicken intact, but most of the time eaten partially, pieces of fried chicken like this, now half of the recovered meat will be transformed into adobo, the beloved stew of the Philippines, a sizzling pan first gets a dollop of garlic waiting POG POG meat. sugar, pineapple juice, soy sauce, vinegar, MSG and Sprite join the mix with all those powerful flavors simmering and finally, an unexpected twist: crushed cookies and powdered milk that give it new ingredients to the old ones.

If stew doesn't suit you, there's always fried chicken. first marinate in soy sauce with Sprite garlic then sugar MSG and pineapple juice now hit the oil until fully cooked again now I understand why people say this food is so dangerous from the rancid garbage dump here to this cooking this food has undergone a great transformation. I must say that overall it smells pretty good here. I like it. Here's what I could obviously see. It's perfectly natural why this food is unpleasant to so many people. people, but also why it has captured the imagination or attention of so many people online from other countries.

I think the most concerning part is the fact that someone can get six from eating old food that has been sitting in a hot garbage bag for an unknown amount of time. Over a period of time, the only thing that gives me a little bit of security considering the fact that I'm about to try this is that she boiled it well, but here she is frying it, so hopefully any residual organisms that may be alive there he will fry to death, that's what we hope, do we know for sure? No, what I've heard is that there have been a lot of streamers, YouTubers, people like me, frankly, who have come here and documented POG POG and Happy Land.

Why do you think this food is so taboo? Why does this food get so much attention from people? Probably in the mainstream it seems strange, but here it is their favorite. M. I don't know, there's a stigma online, there's a certain type of person on social media right there. whose goal is to go to oppressed places to go to slums and film people at their worst, but without looking deeper into the story behind the people, I think that's something called poverty porn and that's something that people look down on and I think it's also about how you're treating the narrative because for me the reason I wanted to come is to really understand how this type of preparation came about because it's like a food solution that you know if you go to the country people to search for food but in an urban environment, if you look, you'll find mushrooms and all that, you'll probably find this and how people react knowing they have to eat.

It is a very pleasant speech and very revealing to understand how people manage in the urban environment. they themselves try to find ways to, you know, feed their families with what's available, beautiful, that being said, the time has come, we should try some, yeah, sure, let me give you a little history about the food, here we have our main dish, so there is the fried chicken. but it's not just a chicken. I see there's a burger here of a fried burger and then there's some hot dogs. I know a strange and perhaps almost inappropriate question. Is there a brand that people prefer here?

My God, the pride this nation has. on Jollibee even here right now can you pick me a slice? People usually eat this with rice. I'm going to eat it alone. It looks like a thigh. Can I tell you something funny? My friend Andrew came here to shoot and someone accused him. from not eating the actual PG POG because you got a chunk like this now you might get some big chunks out of the trash that have a lot of protein in them and that's what you see here, but there are also some chunks like this that certainly were I've eaten well.

I'm going to break a piece of meat. I'm smelling it. Look. I'm sorry if I seem suspicious. It's new. I'm going to try it. Jollibee, it's Jellybee. Hey. Health. Health. Cheers, okay McDonald's, you think McDonald's, yeah I'm sure mine is jello. Now let me tell you, she refried this the hell out of it, she fried it for about 10 minutes, probably longer than the original fry, at this point it cooled down a bit so I can't really tell the difference between cold Jollibee leftovers and this one, it just tastes like food that's been sitting in your refrigerator for too many days or cooked by someone who doesn't really know how to cook, you know, and it's deep fried.

Are you going to have a little more? Tell me something, are you feeling apprehensive? Do you feel reluctant? I'm a little apprehensive but it's all in the mind but if you try it there's nothing wrong with it look, the purpose of this video is not Try to advocate and say, "Hey, this is a safe and healthy way to eat," but I guess that the philosophy of the show since it started was "Hey, if they eat it, I'll eat it," including this, yeah, so lady, well done, you're taking. Yes, I think you should get these extra crunchy to the letter.

This story is about the most taboo food in the Philippines, but as we dig deeper, we discover a story of resilience and ingenuity. Evelyn and those who populate Happy Land endure acute adversity day after day, but they choose to walk light, smile and act according to what is within their control, eat protein in Happy Land, what are the biggest challenges people face here in this neighborhood ? It's hard to make a living, so a lot of people are scavengers, a lot of trash. shops here what is your hope for the future for you personally and your family she is the breadwinner she just wants all her kids to finish school is po pop is going to make her kids finish school yes we will be more efficient, There is no clear path from this place to anywhere else resembling what the world would call success, but through years of selling this dishonored dish, Evelyn has managed to get her children through school, perhaps the first step. on a long and difficult journey away from Happy Land and towards happiness if If you love Indian food, then you will love our new channel, Best Ever Food India.

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