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The Chinese influence goes deep into Philippine cooking, and way beyond food names and restaurant fare. The use of soy sauce and other soybean products (tokwa, tahuri, miso, tausi, taho) is Chinese, as is the use of such vegetables as petsay (Chinese cabbage), toge (mung bean sprout), mustasa (pickled mustard greens).
The Chinatown Walk is a promenade within Lucky Chinatown where people can try Filipino-Chinese products. It is inspired by Hong Kong and Shanghai market alleys where Chinese merchants sell exotic Chinese delicacies, herbal medicine, and street food. The design and layout is also inspired by the Manila Chinatown of the past. [12]
The Sino-Spanish conflicts were a series of conflicts between the Spanish authorities of the Spanish Empire and its Sangley Chinese residents in Spanish Philippines between the 16th and 18th centuries, which led to the Chinese assassinations of two Spanish governor generals, assassination of Spanish constables, Spain permanently losing Maluku under threat of Chinese attack, and massacres of ...
In July 2020, Namewee debuted a music video of his song "Five Hundred" (Chinese: 五百), which is a rock song made in the style of and a tribute to Taiwanese Wu Bai (Chinese: 伍佰) and his band China Blue. While Wu Bai does not appear in the video, a group of impersonators portray him and the band China Blue.
China Airlines Flight 811 (flight number IATA: CI811, ICAO: CAL811, call sign: DYNASTY 811) was a scheduled international flight from Chiang Kai Shek Airport to Manila International Airport operated by China Airlines. On February 27, 1980, the flight was operated by a Boeing 707-309C.
This is a list of Philippine twin towns, sister cities and other international relationships.In most cases, the association, especially when formalized by local government, is known as "town twinning" or "sister cities", and while most of the places included are cities, it also includes municipalities, provinces and a region.
China Blue is a 2005 documentary film directed by Micha Peled. [1] It follows the life of Jasmine Li, a seventeen-year-old worker from Sichuan , in a Chinese jeans factory, Lifeng Clothes Factory (丽锋服饰制衣有限公司) in Shaxi, Guangdong [ 2 ] producing Vigaze Jeans (a company based in Istanbul , Turkey [ 3 ] ), hence the title.
Reception of the Manila galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, c. 1590. The Boxer Codex is a late-16th-century Spanish manuscript produced in the Philippines. It contains 75 colored illustrations of the peoples of China, the Philippines, Japan, Java, the Moluccas, the Ladrones, and Siam. About 270 pages of Spanish text describe these ...