(lack of) food

After going around Ocean Park, I was starving. Actually, I was hungry when we got there, as it was already after noon. But, except for the food stalls outside, Ocean Park only has one restaurant. The stupid thing about it is that you can’t get to it from inside—more like, if you’re already inside with your ticket, you have to go all the way out to get to the restaurant, and you can’t go back in to the exhibits. So, we said we wanted to go to the restaurant first before we went it. And they acted like it was a strange request, and we were shown the back way. However, when we got there, they only had a buffet of uninteresting food. Outside were some dessert items. We thought we should just eat those to tide us over, but they weren’t good.

Once we had gone through Ocean Park, we saw that people had to go through the restaurant before they could exit. I think that’s really strange. They have this fancy looking restaurant serving non-Filipino food overlooking Manila Bay. I think you could either make that into a real fancy establishment with better food, but then you shouldn’t have park visitors going through it on the way out. Or, if you want visitors to eat there, then it should be more cafeteria-like with more food options.

Anyway, we had to wait until almost 3pm to have our lunch. We walked over to the nearby Pantalan Maynila, also on the bay. Here are pictures of the view and food (fried appetizer combo of pork intestines, crablets, shrimp, calamares; kare-kare (cow insides and vegetables in a peanuty sauce, eaten with fried bagoong or brined shrimp); ripe (as opposed to green) mango shake; grilled pork belly).



Though we would have liked to still sit down (we were tired) and chill, the bay water was beginning to smell, so we left for our next adventure.