Bloggers say when in Roxas City, do not miss eating in Baybay Beach. So last night, we went. We took a tricycle right in front of Halaran Hotel. Fare was Pesos30 as per input of the hotel clerk but when the tricycle driver requested for 10 more, I said yes. It was fun choosing from the many restaurants lined up along the street which is right along the beach so that when you sit at the farthest end of the restaurant you are already on the beach. Diners chose from seafood and marinated meats displayed and they will cook it for you. I really liked the almost 1 kg fresh pampano fish priced at Pesos180. I had it fried because pampano skin is so delicious when fried. My husband ordered 2 sticks grilled stuffed squid - Pesos50 per stick of 3 squids. Cooking is free.
In Boracay, Dampa in Paranaque, Dampa in MOA, Dingalan, etc., when you buy fresh seafood, you pay an average of Pesos100 per kg or a fraction of a kg. to have your seafood cooked. So I say, cooking in Baybay Beach, Roxas City is definitely free.
It is interesting to note here that three children peddling boiled peanuts took over eating the food left on the table by diners who just very recently finished dining and has left the table. The restaurant allowed them to eat - did not shoo them away. Once another table was vacated, one of the girls took the barbeque sticks with left-over meat on it.
Around noon today, we went to see the house which is the place of birth of former President Manuel Roxas called the Roxas ancestral home. It was a not a huge mansion which can be expected of a house of a former president, just a typical house of the generation of my parents, mostly can be seen in the provinces, with capiz shells on the windows. It is refreshing though to know that our former president came from humble beginnings.
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