Top funny, it took me a long time to get on the poutine train... I married a French Canadienne girl who loves it. 10 years ago we were in Australia and after the bar she wanted some poutine. I have no idea how but she somehow found somewhere serving it. I didn't indulge but I went in the restaurant with her and I had a habs hat on and of course met a guy from Montreal who was shocked to run into a habs fan in Australia. A few years later we were in Argentina and I spotted a poutine food truck at a festival. This time I tried it and we both agreed it was awful. It wasn't until the pandemic we did a road trip to Saguenay and stopped at little poutineries and casse-croute's through little towns along the way that I finally tried the authentic stuff and now I totally get the appeal. There's no substitute for what you get in small town Québec!!I may have to fly back to Bangkok for Poutine. I don't think Philippines has any. I refuse to accept mozzarella cheese - and yes, that's often what I find. That's legitimately the only reason I returned to Bangkok a month ago - to have a semi-decent poutine I first tried like 5 years ago.
I look for it in every country.