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Post by ding on Sept 26, 2015 10:47:19 GMT 7
Don't laugh. I've thought about retreading some of my walking sandals with car treads. Unfortunately just about all car tyres these days are steel belted. great for long life shoes - but a bugger to cut up with scissors...
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Post by warren1969 on Sept 26, 2015 14:27:01 GMT 7
Sept 26, 2015 10:24:53 GMT 10 ding said: the cost of another 2 months has gone up slightly to 3165p Meanwhile, I discovered the Filo word for 'partner/girlfriend/wife' is Asawa. It is apparently NOT Aswang !!!! (A few blokes with a Filipina might understand why that's sort of funny) Ding, The term 'Asawa' is for Husband or Wife in Tagalog and partner or Girlfriend the term is 'Syota' you will find if you use the term 'Asawa' with other Filipino's when introducing your partner they will assume that you are married. Quite funny about calling someone 'Aswang' which is a term for a Demon or Ghoul
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 26, 2015 20:26:07 GMT 7
How much for food Greenman? I give Gina 400 or 500/day depending if it's market day or not. Sometimes we cut it down over the last week of the month if we get short. chris, I actually couldn't tell you what my food cost is because it just comes out of 'the house' budget and I probably eat a modified Australian/Philippine diet. But I can tell you what I pay for different items (30p=$1), Rice 54p/kg ($1.80/kg) there are cheaper and dearer Beef 220p/kg ($7.33/kg) rarely buy beef Fish 200p/kg ($6.67/kg) local caught small fish Chicken 150p/kg ($5/kg) I buy whole cleaned chooks and cut them up myself. The locals seem to smash them apart. Pork 200p/kg ($6.67/kg) Eggs 84p/doz ($2.80/doz) I buy them in trays of 30. Bread 52p/sliced white loaf ($1.73/loaf) I don't eat as much rice as a local Tomatoes 40p/kg ($1.33/kg) Bananas 3p/each ($0.10/each) always have bananas Apples 15p/each ($0.50/each) not always available. I think they are some type of fuji variety. Oranges 20p each ($0.67/each) not necessarily good value and I don't eat that many but just love them. Pineapples 50p/each ($1.67/each) not always available Vegetables are harder to quantify because they are mostly sold on a piece basis with the cost varying from 3p to about 7p per piece ($0.10 to $0.23). In other words you pay so much for a portion of pumpkin, carrots are sold each, same with cabbages, whatever. One thing that I eat different here instead of potatoes is 'malangas' or 'Eddoe'. Potatoes are available though and occasionally I will go and buy some. Most of my diet consists of either beef, chicken or pork casseroles and rice or deep fried chicken, pork or fish and rice or scrambled eggs with chopped onion and tomatoes and rice. But occasionally I buy some bacon, 190p/400g or 475p/kg ($15.83/kg), and make a bacon and egg sandwich! My vices consist of cigarettes 28p/pack of 20 ($0.93/pack), brandy at 120p/litre ($4.00/litre) and Coffee which is priceless when you can get good stuff.
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Post by ding on Sept 27, 2015 5:18:29 GMT 7
Flamin' 'eck! I need to move over there. Beef here in Aus is averaging $20-$30/kg. At $7.50 I could eat beef every day in the philippines. Fish here is $20-$30/kg. Ok, it is nice fillets imported from taiwan or somewhere, but I coud live with local fish over there for $7.00. Chook, is around $15/kg, $5 sounds affordable (although at Coles if you look you can see breasts for $9). Pork price is about the same as Beef. Bread, $4.20 at the corner store. You have to go to a supermarket to get it at $3. Tomatoes are on special at the moment ONLY $5.kg Bananas are really cheap here too at present. $3.kg
Is there any downside to cost of living over there? :-)
Greenman, is decent flour cheap and easily available over there? I used to bake my own bread here, and when I move to Isla that is on my list of things to do. Particularly as we now have the cafe operating. I love the smell of baking bread and it is something relaxing and easy to do in the mornings.
As we're 5 miles by sea from Batangas and from Puerto Galera, and as there's no bakery on our island, it would be fun if flour is easy to get. And a novelty for our guests. And being wood fired is a bonus. The oven could also double as a Pizza oven. Hmmm. Another project for the resort.. (I keep making more work for myself)
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Post by Banjo on Sept 27, 2015 7:13:06 GMT 7
Market prices in Thailand sound similar to the Philippines. Fish (Tilapia and catfish) are cheaper, as is beef and in season fruit. All markets carry reasonably priced apples and mandarins. Pork can be had for about $4 a kilo.
What we seem to have is a more enthusiastic group of expats... usually northern Europeans... determined to produce or import the tastes of home. Excellent bread, sausage, bacon and now even local cheese are all available at realistic prices.
Chiang Rai is about a quarter the size of Cebu City in population.
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Post by chris on Sept 27, 2015 10:36:26 GMT 7
Flamin' 'eck! I need to move over there. Beef here in Aus is averaging $20-$30/kg. At $7.50 I could eat beef every day in the philippines. Fish here is $20-$30/kg. Ok, it is nice fillets imported from taiwan or somewhere, but I coud live with local fish over there for $7.00. Chook, is around $15/kg, $5 sounds affordable (although at Coles if you look you can see breasts for $9). Pork price is about the same as Beef. Bread, $4.20 at the corner store. You have to go to a supermarket to get it at $3. Tomatoes are on special at the moment ONLY $5.kg Bananas are really cheap here too at present. $3.kg Is there any downside to cost of living over there? :-) Greenman, is decent flour cheap and easily available over there? I used to bake my own bread here, and when I move to Isla that is on my list of things to do. Particularly as we now have the cafe operating. I love the smell of baking bread and it is something relaxing and easy to do in the mornings. As we're 5 miles by sea from Batangas and from Puerto Galera, and as there's no bakery on our island, it would be fun if flour is easy to get. And a novelty for our guests. And being wood fired is a bonus. The oven could also double as a Pizza oven. Hmmm. Another project for the resort.. (I keep making more work for myself) Don't get your expectations up too high on the beef. Not sure what quality Denis, Greenman gets. It's pretty ordinary around here. I had a whole plate in front of me yesteday, caribao, thinly sliced. Totally unable to chew it. I avoid it, like the one they cook down to a soup Sinagalaw, mostly grisle and skin. Just recently getting the Sabah bananas from Isabella. They type you cook, but I can even eat them straight. Almost a meal or a merienda in the afternoon. about 2 pesos each or 30-35 per kg. Bread. The Gardenia whole wheat full loaf is about 80 pesos, will last me 3 days. It's quite good. Just now. The roasted on charcoal eggplant over a small bed of rice as lunch, inc a few cloves of garlic, while they deal with those tiny fish, which is waste of my time. of my time. Maybe a few sticks of bbq pork later this afternoon, if available here locally....5-6 @ 12 pesos ea.
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Post by chris on Sept 27, 2015 10:39:23 GMT 7
Greenman. What rice is 54/kg? Is there shortage down there? We get it 38-44/kg,the top varietees. With the NFA rice down around 30. We are in a rice belt here and harvesting has just started.
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Post by ghostbuster on Sept 27, 2015 11:12:23 GMT 7
Yes Ding you could eat beef everyday, but it`s so tough that you would need a chainsaw to cut it for frying or the other alternative is the slow cooker which makes an old boot edible.
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Post by mick on Sept 27, 2015 13:36:45 GMT 7
The beef in the Vietnamese Pho is pretty tender. Haven't been to Phil yet.
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Post by Banjo on Sept 27, 2015 16:03:14 GMT 7
I pound it out flat if it looks tough. You guys should pay a bit extra for brown rice, far better for you, full of fibre. I'll tell you something else, I have to keep my brown rice in an air tight container or the bugs and ants are straight into it. Ever see them in white rice? Maybe they know something we don't.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 27, 2015 19:04:41 GMT 7
Greenman. What rice is 54/kg? Is there shortage down there? We get it 38-44/kg,the top varietees. With the NFA rice down around 30. We are in a rice belt here and harvesting has just started. chrisLOL... I think it is a 'status' thing. Like I said above there are cheaper and there are dearer.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 27, 2015 19:17:16 GMT 7
You guys should pay a bit extra for brown rice, far better for you, full of fibre. I'll tell you something else, I have to keep my brown rice in an air tight container or the bugs and ants are straight into it. Ever see them in white rice? Maybe they know something we don't. BanjoDown here I have a choice of, wild exaggeration here, about a 100 different varieties of rice. But not one single brown rice at all. In Australia that is all I ate because of the health benefits. And I grew up on an Australian farm where we grew rice by the 100's of hectares.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 27, 2015 20:05:01 GMT 7
Yes Ding you could eat beef everyday, but it`s so tough that you would need a chainsaw to cut it for frying or the other alternative is the slow cooker which makes an old boot edible. ghostbusterLOL... that's why I said I rarely buy beef. Argao has an official, government endorsed abattoir and the Australian bloke I mentioned to ding on another thread had checked it out and said it is okay. I have looked at it also and agreed with him. The biggest problem they have for processing beef is lack of facilities to age them.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 27, 2015 21:00:58 GMT 7
What we seem to have is a more enthusiastic group of expats... usually northern Europeans... determined to produce or import the tastes of home. Excellent bread, sausage, bacon and now even local cheese are all available at realistic prices. BanjoUnfortunately I don't have enough 'northern Europeans' to warrant the local sale of those products. I no longer buy cheese, nor butter or margarine.
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Post by Banjo on Sept 27, 2015 21:07:51 GMT 7
You guys should pay a bit extra for brown rice, far better for you, full of fibre. I'll tell you something else, I have to keep my brown rice in an air tight container or the bugs and ants are straight into it. Ever see them in white rice? Maybe they know something we don't. BanjoDown here I have a choice of, wild exaggeration here, about a 100 different varieties of rice. But not one single brown rice at all. In Australia that is all I ate because of the health benefits. And I grew up on an Australian farm where we grew rice by the 100's of hectares.
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