Yada Yada / The Off Topic Arena

For perspective, my frame of reference is visiting Dumaguete 5 times, but all visits were less then 1 week, with the exception of one that was a little over 2 weeks last summer. Not necessarily staying in a resort, unless you consider places like the Hotel Nicanor or Bethel Inn a resort. Admittedly an amateur.

 

Perfect!

Give us your opinion of the places you ate at? You have a perspective that none of us who spent a long time in the area may not recall. What do Dumaguete eateries look like to you, from your own perspective?

 

Now I understand where you are coming from with some of your comments.
Yesterday I was sitting with a friend and was wondering why you disagree with almost everything I ever say. Now I understand.
You should come here for at least 2 months and make and see what impact you can achieve on the city!

 

The initial conversation was more from a business perspective, but from a food perspective I'm am an average eater, meaning I'm not picky, but I also won't eat anything put on my plate. That gives you some context. I don't recall the names of any of the places I've eaten other thanMcD and Jollee Bee and that's because they are chains. I've eaten at the cafe in the bottom of Hotel Nicanor. I've eaten several of boulevard places. I've eaten at a place that caters to college students near Silliman. I've eaten in Robinson's Mall. I eaten at Sta Monica Beach Resort. I've eaten at the cafe at the bottom of Bethel Inn (love their hot choco). Some place past the Duma pier. Most places only once or twice. Was there last June and prior to that 3- years ago, then probably every other year for a couple of years, so less then 2 months in total. Maybe I'm just easy going, but I can't remember being to upset with the service enough for it to stick with me. I don't think you have to live in a place for several years to learn to figure if service is an issue. In general, I found the service to be fine where I have eaten. Specifically, I can say I've found the service at McD to be standard fast food and the one at the bottom of the Bethel to be good. Does this help?

 

Pony. I can assure that I am not trying to disagree with everything you specifically say. I did a search on your posts to see what you threads you had posted in, which many of which I have posted in. Other then the recent bridge thread, where my intent was to also throw out some additional ideas, I don't think I've quoted your posts often, if at all. I'm not aware of a way to pull all threads that I quoted you in to verify my feeling. We may have different viewpoints on several subjects, however it's not personal. It's me offering a different viewpoint on an idea from a different life experience.

Impact is an interesting choice of words. Do you feel this forum or your ideas are having a significant impact on the city? I don't think mine are. I specifically called out my experience so as not to misrepresent where my ideas come from. There is no doubt the members living in Dumaguete are more impactful to me than I to them. However, everything said on here is not about Dumaguete. I'm sorry for making your feel that way and I'm open to having a private conversation if you think there is value in it. I hope my being upfront about my experience doesn't relegate me to be the new guy who knows nothing and everybody ignores.

 

Pony, just noticed your are Canadian.....everyone loves canucks.

 

Fair enough. I liked the cafeteria style restaurant under Bethel too, hard to screw up a cafeteria. I was hoping you could put some names to some places but like me, when travelling food is just an incident of passage as you are more interested in other things. I will say that for service, I liked eating at home because the service was superb!

 

Is the service at food net that bad? The service is what this thread is about.

You absolutely right that I have not tried food net and there is a good reason for that. Just driving by it was enough information for me to decide I didn't want to eat there.

 

Some people really like food and invest a lot in it. Me, it's a necessary evil. I much rather spend my money on adventure.