‘Ito ay masarap’ is a must learn Filipino phrase because most of the time you’re going to wonder how to say ‘this is delicious’ in the local language, that’s how good Filipino cuisine is. Experience this mouth watering gourmet delight during your stay in Philippines. 
The pioneers of Filipino cuisine are migrants from Taiwan and China who brought with them the tradition of having rice as a staple diet. Merchants of Hokkien bartered porcelain, silk and bartered for sea cucumber and various spices leaving behind a taste for soya sauce, fish sauce, bean curd, fried spring noodles, a whole variety of noodles and the famous chopsuey. 
But traders didn’t just stop with the Chinese; they came from other neighboring regions including Malaya, Malacca and Java, introducing spicy meat dishes, rice dumplings, fermented fish and peanut sauce stew. Close ties with India brought along the biryani and coconut milk based dishes found their way through Malay-Indonesian ties.   Then came along the Spanish, bringing with them the spicy Spanish and Mexican cuisine along with practices of using chili peppers, tomatoes, potatoes and corn that the Spaniards traded from America.  
With many such influences the Filipino cuisine is diverse and you would expect it to have no original flavour but surprisingly it has characteristics so unique to itself. Counterpoint is a famous feature of this cuisine where sweet, salty and sour elements are combined. Classic examples of this style include sweet coco rice pudding with salted fish, salty cheese used as sweet cheesecake ingredient or even as flavour for ice cream. Filipino cuisine also follows the art of preservation things are marinated using both ginger and garlic and also smoking. This technique was developed mainly to preserve food in the tropical Filipino weather. 
Accommodation in Philippines is also equally varied as its cuisine, from hotels to lodges, villas to service apartments there is a wide choice. A key player in the Manila Apartments sector is Ascot limited.  They are one of the foremost providers of Serviced Accommodation in Manila. Located in the city of Makati, Somerset Olympia Makati is one of their main properties, offering hospitality at its very best.