Good Food at Bono Yaki

Every time Peter and I would eat out, it's always a challenge finding a restaurant offering dishes I can eat. It get can pretty depressing actually but it's a good thing that I've gotten the hang of it. I'm starting to think  that after a month of GERD medication, my taste has already change. I no longer crave the foods I used to eat before. I'm now more into bland, a bit salty, less sweet and less tasty but healthier foods.

Cheap Food Place in Siargao

I hope you've read my posts so far about our stay in Siargao. If you did, you'd know that we stayed at Patrick's on the Beach and you might have noticed that though the place is great, we didn't really eat there, except for the Yohoho Mango Rum that they served. I guess it's because we were traveling on a budget and their international cuisines had corresponding hotel prices. It's a good thing that we discovered this carenderia or food place just outside Patrick's, along the main road..

Boracay Buffet @ Bamboo Bar

So there we were in Boracay... after more than an hour of walking from Stations 3 to 1 and back, we ended up near where we came from which was at Boracay Station 3. For us, it has the most appetizing and affordable buffet we can find --- dinner buffet at Bamboo Bar at Station 3 for only Php250.00.

Golden Bay Fresh Seafood Restaurant

It was by accident that we found this huge and colorful Chinese restaurant along Diosdado Macapagal on Valentine's evening. We didn't have anything planned. We just came from a long weekend stay at Mandarin Oriental and we couldn't get any table at any nearby restaurant so we decided to head home until we saw a colorful building from afar with bright flickering lights. We checked it out and voila --- after 10 minutes of waiting, they had an available table for us. It was really a blessing! We were able to have a proper Valentine's dinner celebration and some of the dishes were really awesome!

Check out the dishes we ordered:

The Mariott Cafe's Ocean's Surf Buffet

To the uninitiated, hotel buffets are all alike. A nice upscale hotel means a good buffet, right? While this seems reasonable, you 'd be surprised that this line of thinking isn’t always true. Perhaps, one of these days we’ll write about those buffets you’re better off avoiding. This post however is about one that is every bit as spectacular as the hotel that it’s in.

Last Friday, The Sexynomad and I were extremely fortunate to have been invited to The Mariott Hotel’s Oceans Surf Buffet. It was a payday weekend and I got stuck in unusually heavy traffic on Ayala, en route to pick up my lovely wife. We almost decided to skip the dinner and head straight home. I for one am extremely happy that we didn’t.

Although it isn’t the biggest or longest buffet out there, the Mariott Hotel’s Ocean Surf buffet serves up a combination of the best seafood and meat dishes in their menu and believe me, it’s quite a delectable selection. The steaks from the carving station we’re of prime quality and were grilled exceptionally well, not an easy thing to do outside of a proper kitchen. However, there is no doubt that the star in this buffet is the seafood selection.

You might be tempted to go for the main courses first but please don’t. I suggest you start your meal at the appetizers section. I skipped the salad but I did get myself a big helping of rock lobsters, shrimp and clams. After which, I moved on to their Japanese station. The maki selection was good but the real treat here is the salmon sashimi. They have a chef at the station all the time so you get your sashimi freshly cut. It's some of the best sashimi I've ever had, creamy and packed with flavor. Each slice was heavenly.