Filipino food wank
Pamela Ribon talks about Filipino food (particularly the local McDo-inspired fastfood chain, Jollibee) in a blog entry.

Highlights of entry:

It was quite some time before anybody had a first bite. The only thing that looked like something we'd normally eat was the fried chicken, but once I pulled into it I saw that the meat was a pale brown, kind of tan color, and inside of the tan were the scary streaks of purple you never want to see in a meat that can make you quite ill when even your talented mom cooks it slightly incorrectly.

and

Ty bought a Pearl Cooler (you may know this as Boba Tea), in a flavor called "Ube." Now, I hate Boba Tea. I can't handle drinking something cold and then suddenly a ball of gelatin flies into my mouth through this big, honking straw. It's not right, I tell you. It's not right.
Anyway, this thing was purple with little black "bubbles" at the bottom.
"It's supposed to be coconut," Ken said. "I asked if it was grape flavored, because of the purple, but that was apparently a dumb question. It's chocolate and coconut, they said. The guy was really nice about it. He promised us we'd like it."
Ty took a sip, got hit with a bubble, and recoiled in horror.

and here, they're talking about Ube, which is the Filipino equivalent of 'Yams'.

The last straw, for me, was the banana langka pie. It doesn't taste like banana, nor pie. It tastes like burned pineapple butter on stale bread crust. With some kind of membrane in it.

"New plan. We are going to go somewhere else for lunch."

Filipinos get ahold of it. Let the wankin' begin.

I guess while I'm at it, I'm a happy aborted-duck, brown chicken stew-eating Filipino, and I'm torn between being miffed at their ignorance or just pointing and laughing my arse off at the "ugly American".