Makansutra in Manila

I must say that Makansutra in the Manila Ocean Park is in a lot of ways different from the one in Singapore. The food is not bad though, it's almost the same as far as I can remember.

Prince and I arrived at the Manila Ocean Park when the sun is at it's peak of giving out unhealthy rays - almost 12noon. We roam around while waiting for Earl as we're going to have lunch before he go back to Singapore. I suddenly sensed a really stinky smell when we went out the door of a nice restaurant and we found this giant pool of sharks!

I saw in the news few years ago that the water that they use in these giant aquariums came from the Manila Bay [after all the advance treatment to filter it out, I guess there's still a trace of the stink]. I really hope that we can still save Manila Bay. Right next to the pool of sharks is the 'Fish Spa' area where you pay Php120 and can dip your feet in a small pool of small fishes who eat some unwanted stuff out of your feet for 20minutes. Ewww.

There's also a 'glass bottom' boat and if you want to take a closer look at these sea creatures, you can also try their 'scuba-type' activity. It seems fun but I'm not fit to get as adventurous until the baby is out, hehe.

Earl arrived at around 1pm I think so it's really time to pig out! Here are the things that I noticed:

1. They have a 'unified' menu instead of individual food stalls and there are guys in different 'uniforms' [it's weird to call it uniform when it's not all the same which is not making any sense] who serves as waiters, order-takers, servers, table cleaners, etc.


2. They do not serve Hokkien Mee. They have other pasta that seems more of French cuisine to me though.


3. They do not offer Man Tau which is usually the bread-like thing that's often partnered with Chili Crab - I understand this perfectly as Pinoys would definitely go for rice.


4. They are understaffed for sure - it took them forever to look for crab shell crackers, we asked about 5 waiters and one of them came back after more than 30minutes saying that they cannot find where it is. I also advise people who wants drinking water to get it yourself from the drinking station because it will take more than 15minutes if you asked for it from a waiter. And they charged us almost Php200 on top of our bill for the 'SERVICE CHARGE'. Wth?!


5. The roti prata looks totally different.


6. They only have pork and beef satay.


7. They do not have chopsticks.


8. The washroom is nice.

We ordered one whole crab for Chili Crab, Char Kway Teow, Pork Satay, Pineapple Fried Rice, Beancurd with a couple of veggies, Bandung for me and Michael Jackson [soya with gelatin] for Prince. It was a feast and it's all good! All three of us were full so we had the Char Kway Teow for 'take away' or 'take out' as Pinoys would call it.

The operating hours is only 11am-9pm everyday, I wish they extend it to at least until midnight. Earl left for Singapore that evening and I'm sure we'll have some more of this again. 'Til soon! ;)