Tuesday, January 15, 2008: Dry Pirates	Return to Journal TOC >>
We end up at a pirate-themed place called Guilly’s Island, which somehow is the only restaurant on the whole island that doesn’t serve alcohol. (If you dress a young Filipino man or woman in a white shirt and red bandanna, he or she still doesn’t look remotely piratey, in case you were wondering. It would have been about as convincing if they’d served pancakes and made it an Aunt Jemimah-themed restaurant.) We end up having our first really unsatisfactory meal of the trip: the Australian lamb chops are very good and flavorful, and the lumpia ubod (soft eggroll with banana hearts, what’s left in the middle when all the bananas are removed from a bunch) is also very good, but the corn soup is basically corn-flavored water, the fried tofu and vegetable (tokwa with pechay) is soggy and in too strong a sauce, and the barbecued pork skewers are also overpowered by a too strong sauce. (This isn’t as much food as it sounds like, just one dinner and several appetizers. Portions are smaller here, though the meat tends to be more flavorful.) That’s what happens when you’re served by dry pirates, I guess. (Only about $17 total, so not so bad overall.)
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