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Whilst I am one of the first to moan about the delivery of meals to the table I often ask are we to blame in a small way? I know we should not have to say things at times but we must remember where we are and things are so slow on the uptake, so now, I make it abundantly clear we want starters first. Then please clear away and bring both main courses Together. I tend to make it clear that if I or my wife wanted to eat separately we would have stayed at Home. Harsh? maybe but the message gets through most of the time

 

Just a thought, but having just read another "....will never go there again" for a sorta new restaurant, i realized that Dumaguete has SO FEW REALLY good restaurants that NO place should ever be totally written off.. Just sayin'.. Give a few months and try again.. Most new places have a shakey start up...

And the only TRUE terrible thing about dumaguete is the DISMAL lack of decent Thai and Dim Sum. It's the ONLY thing i miss about San Fran... I have not even found good Thai in cebu or manila (tried three up there).. I have found NO thai restaurant in this entire country with Pra Ram or Pad Me Kao... Spice had it once, passable...

 

And btw, what is it with food emporiums here that seem to conflate quality with buffet? I could take a pop at the “unli rice merchants” here; the there is a lot of it = good rabble. But I’ll confine my remarks to hotel breakfast buffets. Stuffing your gut with the lunch equivalent of 5 bottles of coke per hit is not good for the pancreas, particularly if it arrives with the contents of a baby’s nappy recently scraped from the bowels of a buffet container. Later. I promise.

Unhygienic and a pathway to severe gastro-intestinal inconvenience, the Filipino Hotel breakfast buffet. The modus operandi - usually left to moulder and stew for hours without a thought for keeping it hot. Hardly the best way to greet a guest first thing. But guests keep lapping it up in front of signs warning people to finish their plates first (the hospitality Stasi are watching your every move) before they swarm like flies back toward those silver fly traps. And do finish your conversations and hurry up, others would be better served by a UN relief convoy whilst you dither in front of the congee. I digress.

The toasting machine never toasts properly, mega-tonnes of crumbs from months ago congeal beneath the revolving tray as an insipid element warms sugary bread at the same power the Sun heats Pluto. The cafetière is either empty or has been cooling there for aeons whilst gormless staff wander or stand about doing nada. The omelette station looks like a field dressing station circa the Crimean War so you proceed back to the buffet containers. There lurking within are 2 lonely longanisa, abandoned and unwanted. It’s enough to cause me to reach for the...

Ps: no insult to the Phils was ever intended, all comments are very much tongue in cheek however accurate.

 

Let me help you out...

POSITIVE 7
NEUTRAL 11
MIXED 2
NEGATIVE 6
THEDUDE 1

 

I would be dillighted to help but I have come up with only the following:

1. 'Bread and Butter' pickles from 'Naturally Negros (as already suggested above) at the last known price of P85 for 500g. I finished my last jar and washed it so the label has blurred and is not fully readable, but the product is based on cucumber and may contain dill (you need to check), although I know it does contain onion, bell pepper, celery, mustard seed, tumeric.
   2) Home made: http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk/recipe...tm_source=foodnetwork.com&utm_medium=domestic 3) I have also checked www.mikesimportedenglishgoods.com but there is no dill pickle available at this time.

 

I buy pickles in Naturally Negros sometimes, you can take a look there

 

why-i-stopped-going-to- many different places is the price went up. I can understand creeping prices due to inflation but so many places hold the line on their prices for a long time and they become my favorite go-to place and then suddenly they double the price. Example: Sans Rival. Until a couple of years back they offered a slice of lasagna with a fountain coke for 72 pesos and suddenly WHAM it was double. Put me right off. I still go there from time to time as it is not a bad deal but I could not tell you what the price is now. I only remember prices when it is a favorite dish at a favorite price and I am on a budget. For example (touch wood it will be there a while longer) I have a favorite place that offers a breakfast special with bacon, eggs, toast, jam and brewed coffee for 135 pesos. They have had that special ever since they opened 4 years ago. Every time I go in there I fear they will have eliminated it from their menu but so far it's still good.

 

Today I solved a lunch dilemma - where do I go. So I went to the Why Not deli, bought a french bread roll, a good size slice of Farmers ham, and a few slices of black cheddar cheese. My wife fried the ham with the cheese on top, fried an egg sunny side up, put mustard on the bread, put the sandwich together, cut the sandwich in half, and made 2 sandwiches. I wish I had pickles to add. Couldn’t finish the two.
Reminds me, I had the Thai Pad Thai Noodles with schrimp at Why Not before, acceptable dish, for here.

 

9 years here and can’t come up with five I could rank as a favorite.