Dive-Monster Rhoody

The Chili Bar in Moalboal is probably the place to hang out in the evening. Moalboal is in terms of nightlife pretty limited with only a few watering holes and I actually have no idea where all that online reports about the nightlife come from, but there is not a lot of it.

The Chili Bar is located at the waterfront so you always have a nice little cool breeze from the ocean and it has definitely the best chairs in Moalboal to enjoy your stay. The two pool-tables are in good conditions and the bar seems to have a regular crowd meeting there in the evening.

Our company went to Chili Bar each night and soaked ourselves with some cold beer.  Ok, no cold beer the first view hours, the long brownout that day took care that our plans for a few cold ones were delayed.

The waitresses at Chili Bar are certainly no rocket scientists, but good looking and fun to have a small chat with. One good invention are that little bells the Bar has on the tables and whenever you feel like a refreshment, just ring and one of the staff will be at your table in seconds to take your order.The Bar is well stocked with liquors and the bartender is capable to mix some good drinks, worth their money.

Food at Chili Bar

The menu at Chili Bar has a nice variety, missing only a bit more finger-food dishes. Our company tried several with mixed results. The Goulash soup actually tasted like a perfect bolognaise sauce but was from Goulash Soup as far away as the Philippines winning the soccer world-cup.

But then the Chili Bar Pizza arrived…

What can I say about that, it was simply mouthwatering… a thin tasty crust and tasty toppings prepared to perfection. That Pizza is one of the best (if not that absolute best) I ever had in the Philippines. The favorite was the Chili Special for 240 Peso only. On the first evening they didn’t have any ground beef and the Pizza was already the top choice of our group.

The next two evening the Chili Special was our snack of choice and there was always a new one ordered when the last slice on the table was eaten. The kitchen at Chili Bar in Moalboal takes the last order at midnight what is also pleasant; we all know that this is the time where a snack is needed before the beer affects ones mind too much.

All that Restaurant Chefs in Dumaguete should go for a trip to Chili Bar to take a course how to make outstanding Pizza for little money. Whatever stupid excuses I will hear in the future in Dumaguete will be hammered down and declared as bullshit, probably with the bad footnote about their cooking skills. Cheap Pizza chains excluded…

The Bar is closing normally at 1:30 in the morning, but with some good will and extra tipping before closing time, the staff was convinced to feed our thirsty souls a few hours longer.

All together the Chili Bar is a great watering hole to hang out with friends for a drink or seven with awesome Pizza in a central location in Moalboal.

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Since the five and a half years I am here in Dumaguete, people discuss about a Thai Restaurant and how everybody would love it. Well the waiting has an end, finally Dumaguete’s first Thai restaurant Ti Ban Thai just opened recently next to Zanzibar in Dumaguete.  Being a huge fan of Thai food (well, who isn’t), I needed to check the place out right away.

Ti Ban Thai is a cozy little restaurant which gives space for about 30 diners. The lightning and interior are modern warm with touch of Thailand caused some handmade statues in small niches on the walls. The owners, a French couple, lived in Thailand many years before moving to Dumaguete to open a Thai Restaurant and took care that all was ok on both of our visits. Ti Ban Thai has no aircon but enough ceiling-fans which kept the temperature down, that the only sweat I had dripping from my nose was from the chilies I bit on.

At the moment they only open at dinner time what is a policy I don’t understand necessarily as most foreigners here are daytime-creatures and a student snack should also go well at lunchtime if promoted the right way.

Anyway, most people think that Thai-Food is necessarily spicy, what is definitely not true. Of course there are spicy dishes but at least as many which suits the pallets of diners which are slightly more sensible than Rhoody.

Rechel and I were there two times and unlikely other new restaurants opened the last year in Dumaguete, which seem to throw all in the first week and than simply go straight downhill,  Ti Ban Thai got even better from a very enjoyable first visit to our second dinner.

Like always we ordered many different dishes so we get a nice overview about the whole menu, which offers a kind of standard Thai cuisine with some appetizer, Glassnoodle Salads, hot and sour soups, different curries, etc.

Some of the dishes we ordered were the Thai spring rolls, which are different to local ones and were very obviously deep fried in fresh HOT oil what made a huge difference to most other local places where the Lumpia are just horrible saggy with a smell of 5 years old trike-lubricants.

One of my favorite dishes in any Thai Restaurant are Tom Yam Soup (any style) Tom Kha Kai. We ordered them very spicy and they came exactly like that. I would definitely take a bath in them. Rechels #1 dishes were the green and yellow curry, as she loves food the way her boyfriend is, (hot and spicy) she was really pleased about the dishes.

The Phad Thai was also a delight, after we spiced it up with a bit Prik Nam Pla (fish-sauce with chilis). With all that spices, the Yam Mounsen appeared a bit bland, but I guess my taste buds were already a kind of “influenced” and the Laab Moo was a bit different to what I was used to from my 20+ Thailand visits.

What should be definitely at Ti Ban Thai are some more drinks like coke light/max. If the ceiling-fans do the work in the hot summer month has to be seen. The staff is always present and have no place to hide as in other restaurants so it is easy to order something more, what seems to be impossible in other,very famous, Restaurants in Dumaguete.

Like you can see, a full fat and almost smiling Rhoody with an empty plate is about the best verification of a nice dining experience you can get. The price range goes from 95 peso to 250 Peso with ok sized portions. Rice goes extra and is quality Jasmin rice, not cooked to death. Overall a great dining experience and nice to have a Thai Restaurant like Ti Ban Thai in Dumaguete.

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The KRI Restaurant in Silliman Avenue is one of the latest additions to the Restaurant – Options in Dumaguete. I read quite some mixed  review with the general tendency to be positive about KRI Restaurant. So back and relaxed from my working-trip to Angeles, I grasped Rechel and we went there for lunch.

There would be enough parking space for the guests if not this typical local attitude would rule that people who have a big car must almost drive right into the entrance in a way almost nobody can pass or actually park there. Kuya, you can park in Dauin, it would help the shape of your wife a lot if she need to move her … well skip that.

KRI Restaurant has its name from the three involved people Keith, Richie and Irish and is pronounced  -kree- like in “Chris”. The interior is modern and a kind of bright but still welcoming, the aircon working nicely (no ref, not too hot) and music is perfect balanced background music for a nice lunch. The chairs are ok for my big ass and the table-setting nice.

The menu of KRI Restaurant in Dumaguete is pretty small and offers some Salads, Sandwiches, Rice-topping and noodle dishes with some specials announced on a mirror on the wall.

The price range goes from 75 to 98 Peso while the soup of the day is 49 Peso. Drinks start from 40 Peso for a coke to 50 for a SML. Additional several Shakes and coffee are available.

Considering that the menu announces that all is exclusive VAT & Service Charge, the drinks are pretty much expensive for Dumaguete.

Anyway, the staff was very attentive and we had the menu a second after we sat down. Our drinks were out of stock so we decided to stick to the complimentary drinking-water (nice and prompt service, by the way) Rechel mentioned to me that a guy at the table behind us whispered something to the “R-Part” of KRI and pointed at me, who appeared 10 seconds later at our table and apologized for the inconvenience with the drinks and staff is on the way to get some coke light and sprite from a neighboring shop.

Somehow I got the feeling that the “whispering” on the table behind involved something like “ This is THAT Rhoody, better don’t fuck it up” or similar. Well, anyway I appreciated that a lot as I had a similar situation in another restaurant where I was the only guest with a friend and 4 waitresses were standing lazy around but none moved their ass to get outside, resulting that my friend went outside and bought 2 bottles coke light which we consumed with our lunch.

Each time I visit a new place I order a variety of dishes to get an overview of the total. Our order for 2 was:

• Soup of the day (Tom Yum Goong)
• Pad Thai
• Turkey on Chiabatta
• Short Ribs on rice
• Sweet of the day (sort of lime-cake)
• Pecan Pie

So let’s start with the two Thai-dishes from KRI Restaurant. Both are not on the regular menu but I asked our friendly waitress and she told me that they are usually available. I love Thai Food but the last time I had something close to Thai Food was in Angeles City in a kinda weird place with delicious food but strange guys around.

I know it look like Baby-vomit, but was really delicious

Both dishes were absolute delicious and the closest to Pad Thai and Tom Yum Soup I ever had in Dumaguete. My order was very spicy and I am sure for the local pallet it must have been insane spicy while I could have it about 2 steps higher. Anyway, delicious, can I have a bathtub full of that stuff?

Side note: … now our Coke and Sprite arrived (nice service)

Turkey on Ciabatta – Short Rips on Rice

While there was no complain about the taste, the size is a little bit behind my expectations. Same could be said about the Ribs on Rice. Two tiny rips with a little bit of meat covering barely the big hole in my tooth bottom-left-back… Again, taste-wise, nothing to complain but also nothing extraordinary.

Lime-Cake – Pecan Pie

I definitely loved the Lime-Cake which had a great refreshing flavor without being too sweet. Maybe two or three drops of something on the side or a spoon of ice-cream on top would make it extraordinary for me. Rechel liked it also but preferred the Pecan Pie. Both desserts were something I would not wanna miss.

The table settings and food presentations were all fine, nothing I would rave about or would remember in a few years, but hey, we are in Dumaguete, and for here it is at the sunny side of Dumaguetes Restaurants.

When we paid the bill at KRI Restaurant, the coke and sprite where due to late delivery on the house …. Or maybe it was the result of the whispering and pointing earlier on my back… Still very generous and appreciated, so I left a well deserved tip of 70 Peso, which is more I would usually tip on a 500 Peso bill.

I am not exactly sure how to write a summery about the overall experience at KRI Restaurant…but ok, here I try:

It is definitely not that cheap as I can read on some other reviews online but it is a nice place with value for money. I don’t mind paying a bit more for good quality, service, aircon and nice ambience. The 2 Thai dishes are definitely on me do-it-again list, while I certainly will skip the short rips as Mooon has about 4 times as much meat for only double money on their Baby Back Rips…. won’t go for the Turkey on Ciabatta bread anymore either, just too much bread and not enough turkey.

Will I go there again?

Maybe not if the same place would be in a real city. We talk about Dumaguete City, where the choice of Restaurants is pretty limited and KRI Restaurant in Silliman Avenue is a very welcome addition to my style of having a bite to eat. Staff and owner very attentive on that visit and Rechel and I definitely enjoyed our visit at KRI Restaurant in Dumaguete. Congrats Keith, Richie and Irish, all together a nice job, see you again at your place. My chances being a returning customer? For Dumaguete it is a 100% YES!!! (I will be there again and try more dishes and some repeats), 50% yes after the second visit, 4.48% after the 3rd visit …

cheers

Rhoody

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Happy new year to all my valuable readers and visitors. I was a kind of packed with work and didn’t have any time to write some dive-monster articles here. Well, I am still overloaded with work but I actually miss writing for my private blog, so I need to find the time to release some steam here from time to time.

I just arrived in Dumaguete from my annual traditional trip visiting my friends Kim and Tom in Angeles City.. and what a trip it was… great friends, intense bar-hopping, delicious food and 2 boys on their cherry-trip to Angeles.

Anyway, the time was flying and the 11 days at Kim’s and Tom’s house were flying by. Next to the usual things I had a great dining experience in Yats Restaurant and Wine Club. General Manager and Chef Philip Golding is of course a friend of Kim and Tom and welcomed us in his stylish restaurant located at the Pampanga Clark Freeport Zone near Angeles City (045) 599-5600. www.yatsrestaurant.com

The Wine Cellar of Yats Restaurant and Wine Club is the second most exclusive one worldwide and our visit started with a guided Tour through the wine cellar. The tour was with Pedro the Restaurant Manger of Yats Restaurant and Wine Club.

Well, I am not a wine drinker but what they said sounded even for me very impressive. The wine cellar of Yats wine club includes wines from all over the world and ages  even 100 year old Wines from an sunken Spanish Galleon.

The Yats Restaurant and Wine Club is a fine dining place with great ambiance. We went there for a BYOB (Bring Your Own Bottle) Set-Menu for 850 Peso. (plus 10% service charge) The valuable reader might consider that quite pricy for the PI but I can promise you won’t be disappointed about a visit there.

Yats Wine Club and Restaurant is fine dining in an upscale environment. Our 850 Peso menu had the following courses:

Mixed Home baked breads with tapenade
Salmon Carpaccio with potato & crab salad
Cream of cauliflower & truffle soup with green beans
Tequila & lime Sorbet with tarragon
Beef Wellington with port sauce
Banana crème Brulee

While all was delicious and top notch food there was definitely one highlight I will not forget that fast.

I was happy to have the Beef Wellington as I only knew it from Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen but never saw it on any menu. It was probably the most delicious Beef dish I ever had.

All in all a unforgettable dining experience at Yats Restaurant and Wine Club

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Last Friday I decided with Rechel to go out and make a local hang out cruise in Dumaguete. Ten Places, two beer in each seemed like a pretty doable plan, and this not because I can handle 20 of this micro beers here (remember, I am Bavarian and son of a brewer, we drink in other dimensions), the plan is basically limited by the closing times in Dumaguete. But usually things here turn out a bit different as planned… so I ended up going to 2 places but having ten beer at each of them.

Sundown Restobar in Dumaguete

Rechel and I decided to hit Sundown Restobar first, a place not that new anymore, I guess open around April this year. I never visited there before as it is located at the probably busiest crossing in Dumaguete and somehow I am not a fan of drinking a beer in dust, noise and dirt with Diesel fume toppings. The decision to visit Sundown Restobar was done as I met a view days before a friend of mine who is a waitress there and next to being cute, she spoke some magic words:

Yes Rhoody, of course we have ice-cold SMB 25 Peso only.

Well, there are not much more arguments needed. From the Outside, Sundown Restobar reminds me a bit of Blue Monkey, just in small, Bamboo, grass, acoustic-live band. We went in and I got my first SMB, what can I say… perfect, ice-cold. The acoustic band just took a break, so it wasn’t noisy. I don’t like this small plastic chairs there as they are definitely not adult size.  After my second Beer order the big rain started and there was no way to go somewhere else. We were sitting under a big umbrella and stood dry while I slowly got in the mood to poor beer down, taking the amount of rain as an example of volume.

The band started to play their second set and it was surprisingly not that loud and I appreciated most of the songs the girl sung. With the guy I need to say, well, he always tried hard… and isn’t it the effort which counts.

Anyway, a few more beers and of course mind-destroying Tanduay Ice for Rechel, we decided to have a snack which goes along with the alcohol. The menu offers all kind of finger food and local dishes to reasonable prices. We were close to midnight, but we had no problem ordering some spring-rolls and garlic mushrooms which came 20 minutes later. Nothing I would order sober, so I can’t really judge, but having a few beers, it was a ok snack and for 70 or so peso, nothing to complain about.

Anyway, the rain stopped around 1am and my big sitting muscle kissed the tiny plastic chair at the Sundown Restobar good by to move to the next location, with Rechel the Tanduay Ice-Queen

But that in the next report. I will go to Sundown again to have some cold ones, maybe I need to bring my own chair…

cheers

Rhoody

PS: Due to public demand AND Rechels agreement on her own Facebook-page, I can post a before-after Tanduay Ice picture.

I have No Idea What she is doing, but it was something …. and it was NOT what some of you with a naughty mind may think !!!

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Café Laguna opened recently in Dumaguete just next door of Hotel Nicanor. Café Laguna is since 1991 in Cebu and has several outlets with the latest opened a week ago here in Dumaguete. The name Cafe might be a bit irritating as Cafe Laguna is definitely a Restaurant.

Anyway, after my last (not that impressive) try of a new Restaurant in Dumaguete I was very skeptical to go to the next addition of local food outlets as I rather spend my money with throwing it in the ocean than in bad food, stomach cramps, creating enemies etc.

But as it was 7:00 pm anyway and I had to go to Hotel Nicanor to confirm some rooms, I took the chance and paid Café Laguna a visit. So Rechel and entered the Restaurant and got welcomed by a hostess (if this is the right name) who brought us to a table for two. The entrance area of Café Laguna also has some seats for guests which wanna look into the menu first, or need to wait a few minutes for a table – very convenient and professional…. And that in Dumaguete? There must be something wrong.

Cafe Laguna’s interior is nice and it is obvious that all tables, chairs dividers etc were not build in Dumaguete. For my personal taste maybe a bit too light and I just don’t like this kind of green they are using for the seats. (The pictures look warmer, I was cheating with the camera setting, sorry)

Most of the staff are guys and they are very friendly in a professional way -not the Dumaguete typical way with that disturbing “I have no clue about my job but smile and say yes” face. Most of the staff is from Dumaguete but were the last few weeks in Café Laguna’s Headquarter in Cebu to get up to speed.

Café Laguna offers only Filipino Cuisine, where I use the word cuisine and not food by purpose.  The menu offers a big variety of starters and main courses like chicken, pork beef dishes as well as many veggie- and seafood dishes, Merienda and drinks.

Like always, I asked the waiter what is not available, as I don’t waste my time in studying a menu just to hear the famous “Sorry Sir, out of stock”, and surprisingly everything was available. The price-range is between 150 and 270 peso for most dishes and appeared to me a notch higher than in other Filipino Restaurants in Dumaguete, but seeing the staff and the restaurant including aircon they are more than reasonable.

We ordered Kinilaw Tangigue and Crispy Crablets for our Pampagana (appetizer) and Beef Tenderlion steak a la Popre and Buttered Chicken for our main course.  Of course after about 20 minutes starter and main-course arrived at the same time but that is the Filipino way so I should be used to that.

All four dishes of Café Laguna were very tasty and I am really positive surprised about the quality. The local Beef was not like piece of leather, the buttered chicken super juicy and not just skin and bones like in other places in Dumaguete. I even liked the crablets, despite the fact that I usually hate that small stuff were one needs 50 pieces to get a mouthful food.

When we checked the bill we had the chance to fill out a form if all was good and what to improve. Not sure if anybody reads that, but it gives a good feeling to have the option. We paid for 4 dishes, 2 garlic rice and 3 drinks 930 Peso and left stuffed.

Café Laguna is definitely a positive addition to the existing Restaurants in Dumaguete. I would almost describe it as Filipino fine dining and perfect if you want to introduce a first time visitor to local cuisine.

You can’t compare Café Laguna to the fast-food “unlimited rice” outlets or street kitchens where the food has little quality and simmers the whole day in a pot or outdoor places like blue monkey. You pay for quality, atmosphere, variety which is all given at the new restaurant Café Laguna in Dumaguete.

Of course the whole report does not sound Rhoody-like, so I need to add some small critics. There should be some tissues, pepper, salt etc on the table. When my food arrives, I wanna start eating and not asking for salt, pepper soy-sauce and wait again and as you serve finger food also, tissues are more than appropriate. Maybe some kind of sauce or dip for the buttered chicken would be nice.

An advice for all who want to have the dinner in a western way (meaning Starters first): Order your main-course when your starter arrives, that should give you the perfect timing.

They will have me back there and all I can say is: Keep up the level and good success for Cafe Laguna in your new branch in Dumaguete

Cheers

Rhoody

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Last evening I was dining in a Sandpipper ‘s Café, a new restaurant in Dumaguete. Don’t ask me why it is Sandpipper with three “P” and not Sandpiper like the bird. The staff there could not get me any info about that three-P issue.

I knew about the opening last Sunday anyway but a friend of mine could not resist to spam me each time she saw me online on Yahoo, Facebook and other Online-Platforms about the authentic American and Mexican Food and the outstanding Pizza. Well, I tried to put that spamming out of my head and went there at 7:30 pm with Rechel.

Stepping through the door a very positive surprise awaited me. I liked the interior as it gives a nice feeling, good colors and NO plastic chairs, just friendly and warm. The next positive point, three former Casablanca employees, two in the kitchen and the head waiter, so the food should be good and Roy, the waiter was one of my favorites at Casablanca.

I viewed Andrew, the owner of Zanzibar there and he invited us to join their table. Great, so I was able to see and taste even more different food of Sandpipper (by the way, even Google does not know what a Sandpipper is) . First order drinks:

Rhoody: Coke light
waitress: Sorry Sir, we do..
Rhoody: Ok, coke Zero
Waitress: Sorry Sir, we don’t have Coke Zero also
Rhoody: Well, Bottled Water na lang…

Of course things like that can happen, specially 4 days after opening and with about 1001 friggin shops around, and each and every single one of them is selling Coke Light or Coke Zero.

The menu is not really big, but has a nice choice of American, Mexican and local dishes. I asked Andrew and his friend what they ordered and we ordered something different at Sandpipppppper (well as there is no Sandpipper with 3 P’s I thought it doesn’t really matter if I use 5 or 6 or 19.)

So here is our total order at Sandpi_er (2p 3p 10p no p who really cares):

Southwestern Eggrolls
Chicken Fajitas
Kimchi Soup
Seafood Corn Salad
Breaded Pork (American Style)
Pepperoni Pizza
Classic American Burger
Mineral Water

So lets start with Sandpaper’s (just thought to mess up another letter, as “P” is getting boring). The orange description is original from Pandsippers menu:

Southwestern Eggrolls (Have the taste of the south, black beans, corn, grilled chicken, jalapeno and cheese wrapped in our house made flour tortilla)

Well, the house made fluor tortilla had the quality of an average fast food lumpia, but at least it was not fried in old oil so it had an ok taste. The magic cheese must have disappeared into invisibility or non-tastility (wow great new word)  somehow before I had the chance to taste it, or it might be the same cheese like on my burger so I could not taste it due to the lack of exactly this. The filling never saw a jalapeno in its entire life in the freezer. Where do I know about the life in the freezer? Well the Lumpia dough was hot and the filling stone cold …. Anyway, Rechel liked the dip …

Chicken Fajitas (Try one of our most entertaining dishes filled with sizzling beef/chicken, onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, ready to jump into your mouth, wanting for more!)

Hmmmmm, like you see on the picture, nothing was ready, it was more like in a spare-part shop and you need to assemble yourself. After assembling, it really wanted to jump in my mouth… and it did… but I learned out of that mistake and avoided to give the next bite another chance to jump … As there was some Eggroll dip left, I gave the chicken a bath in it, left the bread aside and considered it eatable…

Kimchi Soup (Pipspanders –see at least I use all letters- special dish, so no description in the menu)
The Sandpipper’s (this time written correct -at least that’s what the restaurant thinks-, but only for search engine issues) Kimich Soup is a kind of sourish broth with lettuce, string onions and  well, I guess that’s about it, just leave a comment if you see some more ingredients in the picture… It is a far cry from Kimchi taste, but generally ok… just call it Sandpiper’s experimental vegetarian broth

Seafood Corn Salad (Come out of the box and try our delicious shrimp, fish and squid, mix with lettuce, corn, olives, cucumber, tomato, carrots and cheese. Served with bleu cheese dressing):

I did not taste it, but after investigating the picture I finally found out where the cheese of my Southwestern Eggroll went .. ALL 7 of them !!! Well I could not find the corn, but I assume corn is not that important in a corn salad …

Breaded Pork American Style (Pork fillet breaded with fine breading that will melt in your mouth. Served with Potato wedges and a side of gravy sauce.

It was new for me that a breaded pork actually uses fine breading to be breaded… One never stops learning, Anyway, the dish was a Vienna Schnitzel, 10 peso less than in Casablanca, but only a quarter of the size there. It is served with brown goo The Potato Wedges were RAW in the middle totally not eatable … funny that at this moment the waitress came to our table:

Waitress: Sir, everything ok?

Andrew: Well the Potatoes are raw.

Waitress:  But Sir, everything ok ?

Rhoody: hmm, if potato wedges are raw and uncooked, no it is not really ok.

Waitress: ok. (and was never seen again until we paid the bill)

As weird as it may sound for my valuable readers, but THAT was the good part of the dining experience so far … next:

Classic American Cheese Burger:

It is hard to describe and I am not an American, so maybe this is a classic American Cheese Burger and I have just no clue and Sandpfizer is correct and an American Cheese Burger is a sweet Burger Bun with a Burger Paddy stretched with at least 70 % other ingredients but not beef (I would say something like cardboard or sawmill leftovers), topped with a slice of cheep Lee Plaza Form cheese.

Don’t get me wrong, the Burger Paddy itself had a good size, but a bite in it makes the Burger Delight Chilly Cheese Burger for 4 am drunkyards at the Boulevard for 29 Peso appear like a Michelin 3 star dish compared to Sandpipers Classic American Cheese Burger. Everything more than 2 mm below the Paddy surface was raw and red, that is actually why I can estimate the 70 % of the ingredients!!! Then again, I am not American, so what do I know about All American Burger.

The Pepperoni Pizza.

The Size ok, but definitely no 14 inch like promoted (if that is 14″, my little Rhoody is 10 inch…. diameter). The Tomato-sauce was cheap-shit sweet philippino Spaghetti sauce, the Pepperoni also imported from Lee Plaza and the Mozzarella definitely the cheap local one and nearly without taste. Fluffy American style dough but tasteless what is (given the whole dining experience) actually a very positive point.  When the bill came I thought I got hit by a horse. That piece of sh_t (insert “i’ at the appropriate position marked with an underscore) cost fucking 445 Peso.

I apologize to my valuable readers and if you read my older posts you can see that I usually @#%@ or xxx this kind of words, but fuck me crazy, some of that stuff was just one tiny step away from food poisoning.

I can’t understand that 2 cooks working for years in Casablanca forget each and everything about food and its preparation and don’t even get a simple potato wedge correct on the plate. What a shame….

But I am also a lucky one. A friend of mine ( who is actually a trained chef with international accreditation) went there today at 5 pm. He could not believe the Horror Stories I told him about Sandpipper. They stole him 580 Peso for a ham and egg pizza out of his wallet.

He send me following text after his visit: Hui, waren gerade im saddingsda und haben ne Pizza fuer 580 Peso gegessen. Ausser dass das voll teuer is gebe ich dir recht.

Translation: Hey, we just were in sandwhatever and had a Pizza for 580 Peso. Next that this is expensive, I totally agree with you.

So let’s recall the good points of Sandpiper : nice place and a lot of headroom to improve. Rechel mentioned also one waitress had sexy legs … sus, I missed that

Anyway,I almost forgot there was at least one thing which was totally authentic:

4 Bottled Water really came as water in four bottles… recalling all the other stuff, at least I hope it was water at sandpipper (sandpiper’s) Restaurant in Dumaguete

Cheers

Rhoody

PS: For my spamming dear friend:

Whenever a relative, friend, lover etc works or opens whatever place, even a flee-circus for 7 legged retarted spiders doing backward somersaults,  keep your suggestions out of my profiles, chats and out of my freggin life !!!

PPS:Dear valued readers,  I even tried a polite Version for Dumaguete Info, If you are interested how to get that fuck up into a polite way, just click here

PPPS: This report is based on my private experience at one visit with 7 dishes and shall not be used as a general critics of the Food served at Sandpippers Restaurant in Dumaguete

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