8 British Habits We Lost After Living in Manila!

hello welcome to a brand new video this has been a while since we've sat down sit down a video like this but it's a little bit of a rainy day here um and we thought we would sit down and do a video that could be quite interesting it's almost a second part to a video we've already filmed yeah so as you can see by the title of the video we're gonna look at some british habits that we've had to pick back up basically in moving back to the uk so if you don't know we've spent some time in the philippines if you're a regular viewer on the channel you know our whole story and everything we've been doing over the last couple of years we used to film these videos it was really it was more of a lockdown thing i think yeah because it was like we couldn't really go out let's film a video we're talking through a topic like five things seven things i think it's eight today is it eight it's always a random number i think today is eight we've made a little less i think was our top yeah so before it was so interesting to the reason we love travel is to see different cultures different ways of lives how people live and what is like what life looks like in different places and countries around the world we spent a lot of time in the philippines and got to know that culture so so well so much so that we realized we'd lost some british habits so we made a video we'll pop it here you can see that but today because we spent so much time there and now we've come back it's things that we've adjusted to in coming back things that we may have it's kind of a similar stuff i suppose but it's more like the other side of it so like things that we need to relearn or like things that we're not used to doing because we've been out of the country for a little while things that surprised us coming back we're like oh yeah that is so different here yeah and we'd kind of forgotten yeah it's strange like if you spend enough time in one place you do change as a person definitely so we're gonna get into 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lot of food that we wouldn't sort of go to naturally we'd be cooking sort of a bit more sort of fresh light foods more sort of asian cooking noodle based dishes more fried rice more um you're really rocking this channel a bit concerned it's going to break no it's fine you sure it's it's ridiculous look for that oh yeah well should be all right but in england you have a lot more potatoes like wheat there's so many potatoes here and there's a lot more like the classic a potato a meat and a vegetable and that's like a staple meal just done in different ways basically i would say our diet improved out there we were eating a lot more varied things and a lot more fresh things i think yes and no because the takeaway options were way better out there that's true and we were eating a lot more takeout food so for example yeah we are now we are now eating way less rice than we would have been out there um we are eating more bread and more sandwiches and things like that eating more like if our family cook for us it's usually maybe yeah meat potatoes vegetables pasta a lot of pasta dishes but the same pie shepherd's pie there's still like we weren't we haven't just come back and like just started being really unhealthy we're still eating like a lot of vegetables and a lot of proteins and stuff but yeah the carbohydrate is the difference the the the staple carbohydrate feels very different it's easier to and it's also easier to eat kind of pre-packaged made ready food yeah here because that is all over the supermarket yeah we're trying to avoid very cheap but when we were renovating this place it was the easiest thing for us so we did definitely eat a little bit of that so our diet has changed differently and we we're kind of trying to do something in the middle right now have a little bit of the british stuff but also we still love cooking asian food i love some filipino food and stuff yeah number two this is interesting this is like a general public kind of observation people are less chatty in public and in shops and in stores and in uh towns and shopping malls it could also be like a covered thing people are keeping a distance we haven't been here since that it might be just that but i think generally we've noticed it anyway yeah i think people don't get us wrong people are very friendly here and we have had nice chats with strangers in the streets and shops in shops and in supermarkets i've also realized that i think one of the main things there are no guards in anywhere in the uk basically and i think whenever you would walk into a store in the philippines there'd be that kind of like good morning good afternoon and everything would be that greeting straight away which would then set you up for the rest of it there would also be a lot more people working in the stores in the philippines so you're going off on a tangent here oh my skipping ahead i think people here keep themselves more to themselves yeah and especially if we're vlogging we've had to really adjust our vlogging habits here definitely because we've been taking a small camera out more than the big camera yeah that's why people are not wanting to be on film which is totally fine it's understandable and they're more like why are you filming yeah i feel like in the philippines it's like oh you're vlogging you're a vlogger it's quite obvious people if they saw us blogging out there would always come up to us ask us what our channel is they just like say oh subscribe i'll have a look we'd have a lot more conversations with strangers yeah that does happen here yeah but sometimes people don't quite know what vlogging is or they still don't know why you're while you're filming yourself or why you've got a camera they don't want to be filmed which is totally fair enough you don't film people here like not that we went around film loads of people there but like we are more conscious we're more conscious yeah definitely so number three is the temperature that we're looking for so back out there we would often be out and about and walking around and we'd say oh let's just go into that shop let's just go buy some water from 7-eleven just to cool down get some ac let's just go to the mall and here it's like the opposite you're outside and you're thinking let's go back to the car and put the heated seats on let's go back home and put the heating on it's really cold let's get into a coffee shop to warm up and get a hot drink and it's been so long for us like that that was such an old habit since we were kids like wrapping up being warm but now it's for us we're not used to having to look for heat we're used to having to look for cooler temperatures and even the way we dress in the mornings and choosing our outfits that's point number eight george oh okay we're just giving it ahead to the end we can do number eight then we can go back i like how we've split these out i know number eight was wearing coats and layers like we've not been wearing them at all in the morning we have to think about how we're going to stay warm for the day yeah and consider like if we're going to be indoors so if we need layers so we can take some off yeah and if we need to wear a scarf or not and if we need to wear a hat and gloves so much to think about i don't know how to get anything done but it is it's funny because like back there out there you'd just wear one layer i would have like one pair of shorts i'd wear all week yeah disgusting and like just change a few t-shirts a t-shirt and then if we're going for dinner you might put a denim jacket on potentially whilst walking to the restaurant but i want to look cool in bgc so i put that denim jacket on and sometimes trousers but did you know that you did the spiderman thing all the time no you know no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no you don't i've needed i've been meaning to tell you this the other day i was looking for a thumbnail it's not true and you were like doing this hot you like this thing i do not i when you do this you think you're doing that but you're actually going like this it's weird very weird number four is an observation we've made whilst eating and dining with friends and family um if you go out for dinner here you generally order your own meal you choose one thing on the menu that you want and you order it it comes you eat it and you enjoy it and that is it no one shares food with the only exception being interestingly when we eat asian food yes we went to like brew hall with kim and tom we shared when we went to a thai restaurant the other day with your sister we shared because it's more that kind of food but when you go to a pub here you're not going to like order a beef roast dinner and a chicken roast dinner and share and have bits of each yeah or more like a single meal or like you order a pie and chips you're not going to share that with anyone else we would do that because we're like find a chicken and a beef or if you go to like an italian restaurant i would order like um a pasta my sister would order a pizza for herself yeah we wouldn't really generally share um in the philippines we would always share food wherever we went i think with whoever we were dining with yeah it would just be this family-style dining and there'd be like huge pile of rice in the middle of the table you just help yourself you have a bit of that vegetables are there the meat's there you can just have as much or little as you want and try a load of different things i love trying different foods i think i do miss that slightly and that's why we still do it like if we go to an italian restaurant we might get like a pizza in a pasta and share we do so we get to try more as a couple but if you're dining out with friends or family you don't really do it and i think asian food calls for that sharing yeah um yeah because you yeah there's so many different dishes but and you want the flavors if you go to a pub in england then you order shepherd's pie shepherd's pie you're not gonna then want to have a side of fish and chips with that it doesn't go yes because it doesn't matter the food doesn't go together why but asian food kind of works together you want that with that because it's like that's a salty one that's a sweet one that's the plain one and with filipino food it is always big portions think of the huge bowls of cinnagang we would have it's always like garlic rice two to four people or two to three or one to two it's never like singular portions really number five is our shopping habits and the way that we shop so here it's like you go to the supermarket you do your weekly food shop you might do a couple of top-ups in the week at some little convenience stores but generally you get everything you need for the week meat vegetables proteins and dairy products and canned goods and whatever else everything in one place in one place at one time obviously like obviously you can go to a butcher's you can go to a bakery there are a few little things we might get from elsewhere but generally like our food shops in one place in the philippines in our sort of lifestyle in manila we would have like rustins for a lot of our stuff but then we go to real food for a lot of our stuff then we go to santee santees for a lot of our stuff and cheese we might go to a bakery we might go to um what was it called toyo bakery and get the sourdough like there was different foods that we would go to for different things like a wine store to go and buy one yeah but now if we needed one we just choose one from the supermarket yeah stuff like that i think that's more common in the uk to do all your food shopping in one place back in the day more convenient i suppose like our grandparents will tell you that yeah in the day it used to be like you go to the butchers for your meat then you go to like somewhere else for all the other stuff and like go to a pharmacy yeah for your affirmative farm cold blue tablets yeah exactly because we didn't have cold and flu tablets but you get what i mean now you would get everything in one place and i think i prefer the other way of doing i quite like going to like specialty shops for the thing oh yeah because it's going to be nicer it's much more convenient in one place more expensive to do it that way um it can be if you get like higher quality things but like for example i just bought coffee beans from the most amazing small local coffee shop and they are 10 times better than the coffee beans i would ever get in supermarket and way fresher and things like that that's different i think there's there's some things in life that like you prefer like everyone probably has like a thing they prefer to get from a certain place like for you you wouldn't buy supermarket coffee beans because you're like obsessed with coffee yeah i've had a taste and it's your like passion and it's like almost like a hobby for you so you you're not gonna like it's not like oh i want a coffee because i need to get rid of my headache you love it you enjoy it get rid of my headache no but you're like you love it you enjoy it you want the nice enjoyment of a beautiful cup of coffee so that is one of your things you do you go and buy them but i think everyone has something like that in their lives i don't know what they want like the yeah one funny little habit that we've noticed that we've picked up again a quick fix for lunch this was specifically relevant when we were renova relevant why did i choose these long words this was specifically relevant when we were renovating our property here um because we didn't have time to cook we didn't have a kitchen of half the time so we would go into a co-op a tesco these small convenience stores and they would do these things for three pounds ish three where are you getting it for three pounds is that at least three pound fifty now three pounds sometimes three seventy five called a meal deal it would be like a package a real deal a meal deal not a meal deal that's a meal of a meal it's a great deal um you would get like a sandwich a snack could be packet crisps could be some fruit and yeah and then a drink yeah and this would be such a convenient thing so many different flavors of sandwiches we're out and about we've got erin's been running all day we're jotting nephron center we don't want to come back and cook so we're like let's get us a meal don't eat it in the car and then we can get on with our day quicker and in manila we never found that quick fix um i guess 7-eleven did those small meals and things but they were kind of hot food and cooked food yeah not something you can eat on the go yeah true like you would never find a sandwich or a wrap or like a quick medley we'd have yeah but even then you have to wait quality cooked food and you'd have to wait like 20 minutes to be cooked and it was like much more of a slow process and any restaurant we ordered from would be like a full meal so it's free i think that's that's quite a good thing that we've picked up again yeah not healthiest no you can but because if you get like a nice granary bread and then they do like some high protein like hard-boiled eggs with spinach or like the fruit like you can't you can do it you don't have to deceive badly for convenience it's a good fix number seven lucy wrote this down but this does not apply to me because i still don't do this i never did even in england i haven't read it drinking tea i swear i'm the only british person in the world who doesn't drink tea i never have done and probably at this point never will i still don't like the taste i tried it recently thrilling cool story bro no it is a cool story um it is it is strange you don't like it and i can understand why you don't like it because it is an odd it is an odd taste it's not i don't drink it thank you i think so i don't drink it and i'm like mmm delicious but it's kind of like addictive but honestly when we had workers in this place when we were getting it renovated we had plumbers builders electricians everyone wanted we offered them a drink everyone wanted a cup of tea i don't know why i like it it is a nice taste but i don't know why but then the same i find the same coffee coffee doesn't taste nice it does it does taste nice but it's yes it tastes like bitter it's a weird taste you know what i mean it's not like you're eating it's not like you're eating like a nutella baby okay like it's not like it's an unusual taste that you enjoy drinking it i can't describe it but i don't know tea's weird but anyway i don't drink it at home still but i if we go around like the grandparents house or they offer me a couple like my mom always says i might say go and then i'll have it and i didn't have it at all out there sugar or no sugar no sugar okay so there we have it that is some british habits observations we thought it would be a fun little video now we've spent more time here again this is the longest time we've spent in the cold in a wintery environment for years august 2018 yeah so we are still adjusting we still have many many more months many many more months of winter ahead of us um will we get some snow who knows you'll have to keep watching we did literally no we don't have a little bit i mean like real quick that was a light sprinkle yeah that would be epic if we got some real snow but i hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you're new look out for our vlogs if you've missed some recent videos go back we're still uploading every other day so there's tons of videos on the channel and do get my spider-man hands out again i can't wait for you to watch this stuff i can realize that you didn't have to be engaging if i just sat here with my life we'll see in the next one i can't not do something with my hands [Music] you