Chinese-Filipinos do enjoy opera, however, and impresarios have in the past come to Taiwan to recruit actors capable of singing nanguan, to give shows in the Philippines. In this way, a number of the older generation of gezaixi (Taiwanese opera) actors, including Liao Chiung-chih and Tang Mei-yun, came to perform nanguan opera in the Philippines.
然而菲華卻又想看南管戲，因此一些商人就到台灣招募會唱南音的演員到菲律賓演出，所以台灣早期的歌仔戲演員諸如廖瓊枝、唐美雲也都曾到菲律賓演過南管戲。