Food & Cooking
From lechon feasts and Cebu street food to Texas BBQ and fishing in both hemispheres — Pea eats her way through it all.
8 videos in this collection, spanning 2020 to 2025.
1. Preparing Lechon in the Philippines - A Provincial Feast For A King
Pea walks through the entire lechon (spit-roasted pig) preparation process from start to finish — buying the live pig from a local farmer, cleaning and shaving it, stuffing it with spices, sewing it shut, and roasting it over coals. She also demonstrates how to make dinuguan (pig's blood stew) from the innards.
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2. STREET FOODS Of CEBU (Cebu City Philippines)
Pea takes viewers on a nighttime street food crawl through Colon Street in Cebu City, one of the city's most famous (and highest-crime) eating strips. She samples nearly a dozen dishes, describes each texture and taste in detail, chats with a young food stall attendant named Era, and ends the night by buying dinner for strangers coming off their...
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3. FILIPINO SEAFOOD COOKING — Cooking At Home With Pea
Pea takes viewers on a full cook-along from the Dumaguete public market to her dinner table, preparing five seafood dishes entirely from scratch with local ingredients.
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4. A Filipina Tries Southern Cooking - Grits And Hush Puppies
Pea visits Cracker Barrel for the first time after viewers flooded her with suggestions to try Southern cuisine. She navigates the confusing store-restaurant hybrid entrance, orders the Grandma's Sampler with grits, and tastes her way through cornbread, hash browns, hush puppies, and her very first mimosa — all while bantering with her server...
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5. A Filipina Tries Texas Barbeque at Buc-Ees
Pea pulls off the highway after viewers told her to check out Buc-ee's, expecting a gas station but finding something closer to a full-scale retail plaza. She tours the massive facility, tries her first Texas barbecue sandwich, and delivers a running commentary on the absurdity of what Americans consider a "convenience store."
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6. Filipino Dinner For Two In 20 Minutes - ANYONE Can Cook This
Pea teams up with Chef Lana, a culinary school graduate running her own catering business, to walk viewers through making tortang talong (eggplant omelette) — a staple Filipino dish that's cheap, fast, and dead simple.
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7. Fishing With A Filipina - What Can You Catch Here
Pea spends the day with her father, a lifelong fisherman she calls "the Charles Bronson of the Philippines," tagging along on his daily fishing run. The video is a lighthearted vlog showing the full experience: paddling a small outrigger boat down a muddy, trash-filled river to the ocean, hand-line fishing for grouper, and bringing the catch home.
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8. Fishing With A Filipina The American Dream
Pea goes fishing for the first time with a rod and reel — her fisherman father only ever used sticks and nets — and uses the downtime between casts to deliver a thoughtful comparison of American versus Philippine life.
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