Our flight out of Manila is around 11AM and by the time we got to the island, it was already past 3PM and by the time we got out of our room after unpacking our things, it was already 5PM. I was really very hungry and very much looking forward to the late lunch and early dinner.  So we started walking on the beach looking for a restaurant to try. 

The resto where we had our disappointing lunch.

After walking for a few minutes, we chanced upon one of the restaurants along the beach, I think its name was La Luna. We ordered grilled shrimp and tuna, but I think it was not one of the best days of the of the restaurant because the food they served us were very disappointing.  The shrimp was bland and the tuna was as hard as a beef.  I actually tried for a number of times to slice the tuna with the usual table knife, but it was really as hard as beef that I gave up eventually.  I only ate a bite size off the tuna and I never finished the food.  It cost us around P900 for the food which definitely was not worth it.  But in fairness, the staff were friendly and courteous, but the food was really disappointing.

The bland grilled prawns

The tuna that was very hard to slice

To add insult to our disappointed stomachs, while we were walking back to our hotel, we saw a lot of eat-all-you-can buffet for P250-300 a person.  Our P900 would have gone a long way with those buffets. 

And because we were still hungry we opted for dinner at Mang Inasal and had some celebrity sightings: Red Lady Gawgaw and the headless Liberty.  

Celebrity Sightings: The Red Lady Gawgaw and the Headless Liberty

Because of our experience on the first day of our stay, on lunch the next day we avoided the seafood restaurants and went for run-of-the-mill menu at Shakey’s.   We ordered  Seafood Marinara and  Chicken (again) and Mojos for my kid (my kid only knows 3 types of food; noodles, sinigang and chicken). 

Seafood Marinara at Shakey's

For dinner on our second day, we tried the buffet at La Carmela for P250.  The price included the eat-all-you-can buffet and a one time serving of mongolian barbecue.  The price was worth it and the food was good for the fill, but none of the dishes really caught my attention. 

D' Talipapa

On the last day, we tried the restaurants at D’ Talipapa and really got our “gas tanks” filled up to the brim with seafood.  I bought a lobster for P1000 (less than a kilo), 3 kilos of oyster at P30 per kilo, and half a kilo of shirmps (no tiger prawns on that day, just medium sized shrimps). The restaurant cooked the food for us ( I forgot the name of the resto), we had lobster in chili sauce, buttered shrimp and butter-garlic grilled oyster. 

Lobster in Chili Sauce makes up for my disappointing first day

Buttered Shrimp

Butter Garlic Grilled Oyster

The lunch cost us around P2000, but I think it’s worth the fill. I actually overbought the oyster and shrimp that we had a hard time finishing them, so we had to take-out what was left. 

The first day was disappointing, but the last day made up for all our disappointments.

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