Its absence is a sign of the city’s more recent past: the capital, including the centuries-old Intramuros, was smashed in World War II’s Battle of Manila, a month-long firefight that claimed more than 100,000 lives. We allow for delays when we head out of town to see the rural side of the Philippines, heading to Tagaytay, a popular rural holiday haunt of Filipinos, to visit the source of one of the Philippines’ best-known exports – coffee. He keeps up a happy patter of anecdotes and jokes as he explains the process of growing, harvesting and roasting the beans before encouraging us to pick up the pestle to grind the beans into a drinkable grind.
Author: Helen Van Berkel
Published at: 2025-05-11 20:35:07
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