only in the philippines

well there are some countries that have salted fishes. and i am not your bro... i am your sis! ok babae po ako...lol

Hahaha. Sorry, but you made me laugh with that side comment. Si grace naman kasi. Anyway, salted fishes are just fishes with salt right? So, it's not unique in the Philippines. Also, dried (cured) fishes are found in many countries.

Oh, I just noticed, both of you are "Graces"...heheh..Mag-sis talaga kayo. Cheers!

There's a season where grasshoppers are just too many a population. They are harvested and sold in the market. They're safe and clean because they eat grasses, as long as they are not harvested from sprayed grasses.

well i haven't heard about it... just now! that could be something different.

well balot was brought by the Japanese to the philippines. i love dugo and isaw too.

I saw a chinese tv program about foods which showcases fish balls and I think that our fish balls originated from our chinese couterpart. I suspect kikiam for the name itself might be of chinese origin too but Im not sure though. Yes I guess that you are right that kwek-kwek(quails' eggs coated with flour and deepfyied), betamax(slang for dugo or solid animal blood on the skewer), isaw(chicken small intestine in skewer) and balot(domesticated duck eggs with a chick inside boiled in water and eaten with rock salt) is proudly filipino street foods. As for the tukneneng, I believe that its a variation of kwek-kwek.

I watched a new before that says infomers saw several of it in luzon but when the news team arrived they found all of it burned. Its a sad thing knowing that they are endangered.

Mt Mayon have a japanese counterpart which is Mt Fuji and the only difference it that the later have an ice cap. White sandy beaches are common(the white sand is actually the shells of millions of years old decayed on the shores). However, there is a white beach in ilocos which is a bit pinkish in shades and I guess that is kinda unique. As for the Chocolate Hills, I never hear of anything that looks like that elsewhere around the globe. Imelda's large collection of shoe is not a big deal as surely, the richs people round the world have the same amout or even exceed that. Take for example the noblewomen around the world(woman loves shoes).

I have heard that tamaraw and caraboes belongs to the water buffalo family but I never heard that tamaraw is actually albinos. Wow! Some interesting line from you 24champ, thank you.

If you are refering to Raflesia Arnoldi, I guess you haven't heard that even in the forest of other southeastern asia have them. As for the world book of guiness record, I have heard many filipino unique records from it and as I watch the daily new, sometimes they feature some towns or groups wanting to get a guiness title prepares for the occasion.