Culinary Disapointment
Trip Start
May 15, 2006
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Trip End
Nov 2007
Legaspi,
Philippines
Sunday, February 4, 2007
We moved on from Donsol just before malnutrition set in to Legaspi. Yesterdays lunch, combined with a gallon of sea water had already wreaked havoc with Dean's guts. While we waited for the jeepney we sampled the goods of the local bakery. Dean tried a few of the cakes, much to the amusement of the girls who worked there, especially when he asked how old each one was! We had been looking forward to Legaspi because it was lauded as the culinary capital of the Phillipines, lots of cocnut milk and chillies etc etc. We set off for the way way restaurant with a spring in our step, quietly confident of getting a half decent feed for the first time in weeks. 45 mins later, dejection had set in at the end of yet another below par Filipino meal. The temparature of the dishes ranged from stone cold to luke warm and the coconut milk was very sparingly used. Luckily there was abig supermarket on the way home so we stocked up on Reeses peanut butter cups for me, not for Dean tho, he'd taken up the challenge of sparing our blushes and eating all the food, not something he usually has a problem with
01 Mt Mayon
! For any of you wanting to get in shape I can highly reccomend the "Filipino Plan". From now on its tourist restarants and even Maccers for us, hooray for globalisation! That said, Dean is still finding himself strangely drawn to these bizzare hotdogs covered in waffle batter on a stick! This morning we went to see the local volcano, Mt mayon which last erupted in 2001, we thought things still looked like a disaster zone but apparently there was a huge storm in Nov and people have only just come back to live there. We had a wander around the ruins of a village buried during a 1814 eruption where 1200 people were buried alive. Tonight we get an overnight bus to manila where we have to spend the day before heading north tommorow night, at least we can get a decent cup of coffee in Manila, i think thats the most positive thing I can say about it!
