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AHHH, Mr Sedona, I like your comment, BUT i also like the RiceaRoni comment, haha (i have never made rice from a box)....

It's a "cost - benefit" analysis

I moved to SF in 1973, so that gives me 45 years of great food, eating out several times a week. YES ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY I MISS THE FOOD... BUT BUT BUT:

Good food in SF is breakfast for $30 (1500 pesos) for two people (Just for you), hot restaurants with a two hour wait on weekends was $50 (2500 pesos), the best Sushi restaurant in SF is 5000 pesos, good ones are 2000. Dinners are in the 2500 peso range. Even cheap places like Hard Knox are over 1500 pesos. But the lower the price range, the more like Dumaguete food SF food becomes...

I'll throw in that the lack of great Thai here is sickening, as is Dim Sum (harbor view is unforgivable, mr lee at lee hypermart is passable, barely (any recommendatioms?)..

As for stars), there are a few which clip the 3 star range with tastes which emulate SF, maybe Alima, Kri (same owners), maybe Adamo, Andy's, Salaya, Atmosphere.. PS i like Casablanca a lot, huge schnitzel.. Dozens of others have fun menus with good food.. As for * or ***, i concede i ain't no critic, but i like them the best...

Also for SF, i don't miss 300,000 peso rents for small unfurnished, 75,000 car break-ins per year, 10,000 homeless camped out in tents on the sidewalks, traffic like cebu, bicycle thieves caught with a stolen bus and 50 bicycles released after two days, building PERMIT costs for a short wall over P250,000. List goes on and on, like the chances of a delivered package disappearing off ur doorstep is 80%...

So my "benefits" of living in Dgte far outweigh the "costs" of leaving SF..

Oh yeah, and the yummy "froccinos" at Bos are better than whatever crap starbucks is dishing out... So whats Tom & Toms ????

 

But what about the other favourite British foods?:
(1. Fish and chips ... as you said)
2. Roast dinner with Yorkshire pudding
3. Full English breakfast
4. Bacon butties
5. Apple crumble
6. Strawberries and cream
7. Bangers and mash
8. Cream tea
9. Shepherd's pie
10. Crumpets
11. Ham, egg and chips
12. Sausage rolls
13. Cornish ice cream
14. Baked beans
15. Victoria sponge
16. Toad in the hole
17. Sticky toffee pudding and custard
18. Cornish pasty
19. Steak and kidney pie
20. Pork pie

Bet your mouth is watering now

 

Report back and let us know. I have not been in the place but a while back the manageress was a British lady and she is fabulous (this coming from her mother who I met on the plane after she came for a visit). I keep meaning to get in there and say hello but I'm really not a resort kind of person. I actually like the food in most Dumaguete restaurants. Its cheap, plentiful, tastes fine to me, and fills the stomach.

 

Something tells me that you have not been to the Atmosphere Resort and paid the high prices that you accuse others of not paying. I can't afford it either but the tripadvisor reviews give it 5 stars so its not that good food is not available, its that it is available at first world prices and we expats don't want to pay that.

 

I can only agree with most of the above comments about foods in the Philippines. For sure Filipino taste are different from westerns, maybe ChMacQueen are right Filipino had kills there taste buds with vinegar, soya, sugar etc., only a few dishes fit my taste buds, only I can get on my memory is chopsuey. A perfect meal for me is both tasty and healthy, I'm in no way fanatic, but want tasty and healthy food on daily basis. I can find several decent restaurants and food places in Dumaguete, but not find any high end yet. I can still feel happy and satisfied with the food when I go out, don't forget what you pay for the food compared to the US or Europe. Bertelicious Sushi on south highway opposite side of Katz a few hundred meters against Bacong, great food and staff very friendly, only minus close to the highway. I like the stone oven pizza in Bambolo, paella in Why Not, steak in Casablanca, kebab in a Turkish snack bar on a corner in Nobelfranca street, on the opposite corner of Cafe Mafioso. Moon cafe, Kri, Sans Rival Bistro and some of the beach resorts in Dauin area just to name some of the places I find to have decent food. Taste and what food means to you is very individual, some eat to stay alive, others want high pleasure. I'm not a chief cook but interested in cooking, how to learn to make new dishes, YouTube is great, hate to eat same same. Commodities like seafood and vegetables you can find in good quality and imo very cheap here in the Philippines, just my 2 cents

 

I guess we all have our own views but then, it depends your own Criteria of any staring system