Seafood Galore in Dampa

It's payday! And I had a scheduled date with my partner today in Robinsons Manila hence it was changed as my partner's team on our office have decided to spend an afternoon lunch, which I am invited, in Dampa Macapagal that is famous due to having a lot of restaurant who only serves the freshest seafood options. Instead of getting disoriented, it made me glad as going here in group will reduce the amount of money you will pay as eating here could sometimes cost a fortune especially if there will only be the two of us.

As today is my off, I would still have to go to the office so I can be able to join the team. Arriving in the office just in time, my partner's shift ended at 2pm. And so we're off to Dampa.

Welcome banner, I guess

So we arrived here around 3pm and started to look for a place to eat. I would like to suggest Aling Tonyang's Paluto Restaurant as I have experienced eating there few years back and I can guarantee that their meal do tastes heavenly. But since this is not my team to make a decision, I just let them find the place and they chose Aling Mahsrya (don't know if that's spelled right.) as it has a VIP room with Karaoke.

Where we ate

Paluto Charges

Paluto charges

The Above menu is not for the food you'll order. It is only what they will charge for having they cook your meal, so beware if its your first time. You would need to give them first the name of the dish and once you're settled, next thing you will do is to go find the main ingredients of your dishes.

Fruit stand

Wet market

Costs varies depending on the sizes and types of shrimps.

It's indeed fresh. Not frozen.

She sells, sea shells... :)

Fresh crabs. Yes! They're alive!

Where we bought our seafood.

Lobsters! :D

After making few selections we headed back to the restaurant to sit back and relax while waiting for our meal. As we wait, his team have started singing with the karaoke video while I am so busy setting up my camera. Forgive me as I am unable to shoot pictures in the room as my camera settings have failed. But to tell you, you maybe able to use the VIP room if you're in a large group for 4-hours with free use of Karaoke Video which is not bad yet it is not the highlight of the place, of course it'll all go down to their food to serve.

my set dinnerware.

Few more minutes later, food have started to arrive. One by one, they were placing it on our table and it looks really good that it's hard to wait for everything to be served but of course, since its not my team, I still need to behave and patiently wait. :D  And finally, everything's complete so we have then started to eat.

Buttered shrimp

Crab in red sauce

My favorite! Baked Cheese Tahong

Grilled Tilapia

Tempura

Calamares

It was a heavy meal indeed. I finished my plate real satisfied. But of course, there are meals that kinda fell short my expectations yet that is something normal. I couldn't blame them as its just my first time here. Everyone still deserve a second chance so then this place does. 

me after eating, relaxing.

the view outside

sunset from the window

Overall, the dishes still gave justice to what we have paid for. We left the place satisfied and full and of course, happy with the bonding I had with my partner's team. :D

the VIP room afterwards