First of all, Happy Holidays! I finally had time to sit down & blog about our Roxas trip last month. While editing the photos, I thought maybe I should separate this entry into 3 posts. So the first one that I’ll do is about the food.
We bought our Roxas tickets just days after our Davao trip. It was a really good deal – around 1500php per person. That’s the price for a one-way ticket to Davao. Why here? Well, aside from being a good deal, we both love seafood and I researched that Roxas City is the Seafood Capital of the Philippines.
Once we arrived at Roxas airport. We took a tricycle to Baybay beach. Famous for their fresh seafood dishes.
One thing I didn’t like though, is that we took a tricycle outside the airport gates to go to Baybay beach. He charged us 50php per person each. In our future trips, it was only 50php for both of us. Maybe the city should enforce stricter regularization of prices? Sigh. The tricycle driver took us to his relatives’ restaurant instead of the famous seafood court. Since we’re there already, might as well eat here. Note to self, be firm with people.
Fresh oysters for 40php!
Meat comparison. HAHA.
Prawns for 240php
Lato salad for 80php. Lato is also called Sea Grapes.
Cat fish.
Our first lunch at Roxas was a pleasant experience. After that, we checked in our hotel. We chose Wallabies Hotel for our stay. It’s only a few minutes walking distance to the plaza. For dinner, we went to Cafe Terraza. It’s located at Pueblo de Panay, just a tricycle ride from Robinsons Place Roxas. After dinner, we learned that there’s a roundtrip jeep to Robinsons Place. I chose this place because we didn’t get to do a “dinner with a view/mountains/hills” at Davao.
This is the view. Not that nice in the photo. But it really pretty. With the fresh air & cool breeze lol.
Seafood karekare! 265php.
Baked scallops. 195php.
Iced mocha & blueberry cheesecake.
Inggo’s dessert. I forgot the name.
The next day, we woke up a bit late. We explored the plaza looking for a place to eat. We ended up at Spanggo – a Spanish+Ilocano restaurant just near our hotel. Apparently this place is famous for its pies.
Spanggo interior.
Dragon balls. 180php.
Palabok. 99php.
Beef Caldereta. 165php.
Bacon Meal. 110php.
The most delicious apple pie I’ve ever tasted! 55php.
Crumbly goodness.
Fried Halo-Halo. 85php.
After this huge lunch. We rested for a bit back at the hotel. After a while, we decided for some reason to walk to Baybay beach. Yes, walk. It took an hour, but we did it HAHA. It wasn’t tiring, since we got some refreshments at City Mall. And we enjoyed the scenery.
Baybay Beach at dusk.
For dinner, we decided to eat at Coco Veranda. It’s one of the top ranked restaurants on Trip Advisor. They have a huge board with the current prices of seafood, but I didn’t get to take a photo of that. Same with the other restaurants at Baybay, this one is also a cook as you order setting.
Clam soup.
Garlic crab.
Baybay at night. This is the seafood food court. We didn’t get a chance to eat there HAHA.
I got food poisoned the second night. I didn’t know from where though. So the third day was awful for me. Maybe it was from too much clams and oysters. They were so cheap here HAHA. Yes, they were fresh. It was too bad that we didn’t consider the season of other seafoods like the diwal – a native shellfish famous here, and crabs & shrimp we also not in season so they were not as cheap as we imagined.
But it was still a nice experience. Next post will be about the town.
