⌛ Greetings from Hillbilly Heaven Yall....

Greetings, ..I have leased a house in Dumaguete' City & I will be there around May 5th, I could use some recommendations on supermarkets & restaurants....HELP ! ...thankyou sincerely

 

Congrats and welcome! You will want to go to the Foreigner supermarket heaven at Lee's Super Plaza where it has a HUGE selection. You will find the smaller markets are great too once you get settled. Hypermart is better and has less people traffic. Good luck!
Read previous message for more advice.

 

to make it simple... for a foreigner NOT used to live here, you will find no real food, no place to go shopping and only 2 or 3 restaurants which may be ok. for a foreigener without expectations you go aroud the corner and find ALL you need in a SariSari shop...

Rhoody

 

..Good Day to you Cyndi, ... & thankyou for your kind response . I don't think the culture-shock from Tennessee to Dumaguete' will be half of what I experienced moving from Brooklyn to Tennessee ...Dumaguete' will be a serious upgrade...lol . Lee's Super Plaza will be our 1st stop.....Maraming Salamat Matapat ....Paul

 

Paul,
than you have a good time and no problems and a wonderful time... Have a safe trip, see you around

cheers
Rhoody

 

Rhoody,

That is such TRUE and WISE advice to all foreigners that visit DUMA. I am ashamed to admit it but I had made many short trips to DUMA to volunteer and until I really lived there and started cooking filipino foods and learning THEIR ways I had a BAD attitude and complained I couldn't ever find what I liked. HELLO! I never really bothered to try different samplings of food at simple normal filipino food places. I asked my friends how to food shop in public markets and how to cook. I finally CHANGED MY ATTITUDE (the food always exsisted) and was humbled by my meger poverty budget to force me to wisen up. I now LOVE filipino food and miss it so much. In fact, this weekend I am headed to Chicago and my friend's filipina born and raised mom asked what I wanted to eat and I am begging her to cook filipino food for me. I know that she must laugh at me since her own American raised filipino son won't eat it. LOL! Life is a matter of perspectives and being OPEN to new ideas/views/people. My philosophy is when in the Philippines.......do as the filipinos do! hehehe It certainly has worked very well for me.