Pinoy-Negrense-Bacoleños

We Filipinos truly have an interesting culture. I can't help but smile of the simplest of things that others may find amusing (inspired with my countless conversation with Anton about our culture differences).

I'm sharing you the list that I have made so far (I will add some more if I remember something). This is a mixture of Pinoy, Negrense, Bacoleños culture.

1. We eat with our bare hands (Pinoy thing really)
   
2. We have rice on breakfast (Tapsilog, Tocilog, Cornsilog and all those stuff)
3. Fish is cook with their heads on
   
4. Means of transportation include - buses, jeepneys, tricycles (trikes as what Anton would call it -they obviously don't have it there)
   
5. Bus door is usually open unless you are in an air-conditioned one (but of course, you defeat the purpose of riding in an air-conditioned bus and you will just open the door).
6. In Negros alone, there are a number of dialects. Bacolod people speak differently (not just the varying accent, but the vocabulary itself) from let's say people in San Carlos (which is just 3 and half hours away from us if you travel by bus and maybe 90-100 km away).
   
7. Pinoy loves to eat - it's amazing how we can come up with such weird mixture of ingredients into something delish. And cooking style vary from one region to the other - Bicolanos loves spicy food, Pampangeños loves to use vinegar in their cuisine, Bacoleños like it when its kind of sweet (must be influence of the many sugar central we have here).
8. Street foods or what we call turo-turo. We have popcorn, cotton candy (schools especially), hotcakes, fishballs, tempura, peanuts (salt or sugar coated), shakes, ice scrumble (crashed iced with flavors-different from shake, trust me), dirty icecream, kwek-kwek (quail egg), balut, and a lot more.
   
9. Pizza delivery comes with hot sauce and ketchup.
   
10. We like "sawsawan" - patis (soy sauce), vinegar and kalamansi (lime). We also have "sinamak" for those people who love it spicy (vinegar basically with lots of spices).
11. Taxi's only exist in Bacolod - go to the next city, there's none. You can go around everywhere with tricycles.
12. When we give out direction, instead of giving the specifics, (ex: straight ahead then turn right) we used our mouth to point the direction.
13. Our spaghetti has hotdogs (Go to McDonalds and then Jolibee, order their spaghetti meal and you know what I'm talking about - hehe).
    
14. We are vain when it comes to our hair. We love our hair to be neat and in it's place all the time (That's why we love going to the salon, not just to have our hair cut or colored but to have it rebond and all).
15. More on hair vanity - American women blow dry their hair before leaving the house, us - we leave the house with our hair still wet.