Follow Your Foots: Pitstop: Guimaras Foodies

Monday, February 23, 2009

Pitstop: Guimaras Foodies

It’s a good thing we stayed in Raymen Beach Resort because they served good food in their cafeteria. On our first day, we tried their grilled boneless bangus, chopseuy and molo soup for lunch. You can taste the freshness of their bangus together with the chopseuy and the authenticity of their very own molo soup. The molo soup was notable because they add egg to balance the taste of molo wrapper as this has tendency to make the soup a bit salty.

lobster (pic c/o marj)

For dinner on our first night, we ordered grilled squid stuffed with tomatoes and onions, sinigang na baboy and ensaladang talong. I’m a squid lover so I liked their grilled posit but I noticed it was a bit small for its price. The sinigang na baboy was okay for me but the fat was a bit thick and the soup was oily. I’m not a fan of eggplant but their ensaladang talong was fresh as it was combined with tomatoes and onions and soaked in their native vinegar which was too strong for me. But it’s generally good.

molo soup

For breakfast, we had the usual Filipino food like tapa, tocino, egg and their local tuyo, uga tabagak which is the cheapest in their menu. Their tocino was fried with onions that made its sweet blend was very good as it combined sugar and sweetness of onions. So good! There beef tapa was not that tender though also taste good. Their local tuyo was deep fried perfectly as you can eat it as it is. Their uga tabagak is considered as our staple food as we order it even for dinner.

grilled boneless bangus

After our island hopping trip, a fisherman approached us and sold his three samaral fishes and three lobsters for on Php 500 plus. Without hesitations, we bought all his seafoods and asked the cook at the cafeteria to grill the fish and make some sinigang and cook the lobster for us. It was a feast for it was so cheap. You can’t buy a lobster in Manila for that price. Samaral fish was so good as it tasted like maya-maya fish.

ensaladang talong

For our second night dinner, we ordered pinakbet, beef steak, grilled liempo and pancit lomi. Their pinakbet was similar to native Ilocano pinakbet which has a strong taste of bagoong. The beef steak had a strong kalamansi kick that I liked so much while their lomi used other noodle instead of miki. Sarap! Their liempo taste good so the fat was so thick.