If you wish to meet Filipino women for marriage, the very first thing you have to do, prior to signing up for one Philippine internet dating site, is to get to know Philippine society first. Besides the fact you will know one thing or two regarding how to meet Filipino women halfway, your talks won't be lame.

So, here are the top five points you need to know about Philippine society:

1. Philippine people will make you eat balut

The "rite of passage" for nearly all foreigners in the Philippines is the balut, and most people get a kick out of goading a foreigner to taste it. Balut is boiled duck's egg with an 18-day old chick inside it. Balut is delicious with spicy vinegar and salt. Then again, most foreigners (and other Filipinos) can not stomach seeing bird body parts while eating.

2. They love drinking sessions or "tagay".

Tagay is the local name for alcohol-drinking session. Filipinos drink to get inebriated but even then, there is decorum to it. You sit around one table with only one big bottle of beer and one drinking glass. Every person takes turns drinking one glass until the glass is empty.


A "gunner" normally does not drink during tagay. Rather, he pours a drink for all. When someone offers you a drink at tagay, never turn it down it, unless if you want to be thought of as snobbish or "arte".

3. Beer is San Miguel, tuba and bahalina are common drinks too.

Practically the only beer brand you will find within the Philippines is San Miguel and its affiliated brand Red Horse.

In any tagay session, you'll most probably be downing a liter of San Miguel beer or Red Horse (or Tanduay brandy). If not beer, it will most likely be "tuba" or "bahalina". Although both are produced from coconut sap, bahalina is bitterer and stronger than tuba.

4. Any white-colored guy is always an American Joe.

Filipinos who are not aware of the world's different cultures have the tendency to generalize all white men they encounter as "Kano" or "Amerkano" (American), even if they are actually from Netherlands. This occurrence can be clearly explained by the fact that Philippine culture is so affected by American culture (the Philippines was a colony of the United States for over 50 years and of Spain for 333 years). So, please don't be inflamed if you meet Filipino women who ask if you are an American.

5. They love to be entertained.

Filipinos are plainly happy-go-lucky. The ordinary Filipino loves to be entertained with diverse pastimes, from karaoke, noontime Television shows and soap operas, and boxing superstars like Manny Pacquiao.

Filipinos don't take their government officials seriously, either.