Davao

P, thank you for the kind words. I've taken at least as much information from this forum as I've provided, and probably more.

Thanks as well for your words of caution regarding the ATM. Your warning will make me doubly cautious, and will reinforce the need to continuously check my balances every time I make withdrawals. Fortunately, most of the time I use a Metro Bank ATM that is just below my office, and there are three or four security guards around the machine 24/7. Of course it's always possible the security guys are in on or are the perpetrators of the scam, in which case I'll get screwed as well.

GE

guys,

i posted in the faq asking suggestions for wiring funds to the p.i. other than western union (expensive and full of red tape) or xoom(lousy customer service dept). please reply in faq section. thankyou.

i wanted to relate this tale as it is both pertinent and entertaining. on my arrival in davao city last july from manila and my beautiful waitress (korean restaurant;see photos manila board) there, i wanted to get together with a lovely lady. it was a sunday around noon so options were plentiful. but i had to be careful as i would be seeing rose and her 18 y/o sister, grace for dinner that night along with my newborn son.

i was getting texts from both the 18 y/o and a 28 y/o accountant who was beaufiul and had a great body, including nice tits. i decided to invite the 28 y/o thinking her age & employment would mean maturity and reliability. was i ever wrong!

she tells me she is not busy and will be "right over". it is 12;15pm. i am thinking 30 minutes as i told her to take a taxi. at 1:45pm i text her and she says she is "getting ready". at 3:00pm i text again. get no reply and try calling her but no answer. i am getting "broken hearted" text messages from the 18 y/o bianca. finally, at 3:45pm i text telling her, "you are very rude to do this to me. do not bother coming at all". i then text 18 y/o bianca and she says she will come right over.

the 28 y/o replies now saying she "misunderstood me" (lying *itch) and thought she was to come by in the evening. i specifically said come over right now and she had replied back at 12:15 that she would be "right over". i again tell her she is rude and to not come, including a "get lost" in my text.

the 18 y/o arrives after 20 minutes. takes me five minutes to get her nice, gold, satin blouse off, remove her bra and begin massaging and sucking her huge tits. quickly i release trousersaurus rex and she gives him a good blowing. after 20 minutes of her blowing my dick like a category 4 typhoon, i stick it inside her tight lovebox. we fuck for 30 minutes before i cum inside her. she is a sweet lady. she takes a shower, dresses and says goodbye as she has to be home for sunday family dinner. lovely lady!

i bathe, change clothes and head to henny's de bonte koe at 8:00pm to see rose and my first actual time with my infant son. grace is there and on rose's advice, she tries the ostrich steak (delicious, p425). we dine and talk for 1 1/2 hours. i just have dessert as i ate earlier in the club alone (included in my fee so thought i should eat there). grace wants to head home as she has an early morning class. rose and i go with our son to marco polo. she has two bags full of [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord131][CodeWord131][/url], baby clothes & accessories. needless to say she intends to move in.

snuggled together on the bed with conor watching tv, i am thinking how good life can be when its really, really good! not so fast grasshopper. i get a text from the 28 y/o. it is now 11:00pm. she says, "what is your room number, i am here in marco polo now". she was invited at 12:30 in the afternoon, not midnight! where the fuck does this asshole get the nerve to just show up like this late at night??? i do not reply. the hotel and the head bellboy (i tip him good) have been informed that if anyone calls looking for me, i am not staying at the hotel!

they all know my son is with me. rose and her huge rack are well known to the mp staff (she used to bathe in tiny bikini). it was not hard to notice dragon slayer at my height/weight, dressed in black, getting out of a taxi that evening with rose and my infant son along. the bellboys carried rose's bags and congratulations was said to her numerous times on the way to the room.

fortunately, i learned years ago, the hard way, never to give out my room number until the filipina is actually in the hotel lobby. this incident is reminiscent to one i had last year where the big titted marina (see nude photos late 2007, early 2008 cebu board) failed to show up the monday evening when she was invited to come for dinner. she then, without any advance communication, texted me the following night at 11:00pm that she was on her way to my hotel. the nervy, little witch!

i had my 3 y/o son, daniel sleeping beside me and his mother against my shoulder as we watched a movie. i had to go out, speak to the front desk and hotel security telling them that this nervy filipina with huge tits (small brain) and anyone else was not to be permitted anywhere near my room. again, this hotel knew my son and his mother were with me and the "standing order" the hotel staff follows is not to allow anyone to disturb us.

some of these women are complete asses. inconsiderate, bold, rude and nervy.

dragon slayer

Guys,

I have not seen Jobeth since 2008. She just had "excuses" for not meeting me last May and was "busy working" for some lowlife American claiming to be an Attornet from California last December. Guy was in Davao two weeks on vacation and gives her some story of running a business introducing western men to Davao women. Right! Like an Attorney would need to run a scam like this on his vacation.

I admit some guys could be fucking stupid enough (tons are) to pay some shyster a fee with the intent of being introduced to young, Davao women. IF you spend any time at all reading my Forum, you already are knowledgeable, if not an expert on meeting and fucking Davao pussy. Nothing magical about it. If I have done it 100 times, why can't you? Jobeth, young and beautiful, was to be his "set up woman" getting all the Davao women for the dumb schmucks. No doubt she was fucking/blowing this jerk also. This ended when his holiday was over and he had to go back to being Office Boy or "Assemblyline Jack".

I was surprised that just the other day she comes online and begins chatting with me. Gives me a new cellphone number. No explanation why she needed a new number but says she "misses me deeply". Sure!

Then online pops up someone I do not know. Begins chatting and asks if I remember her. Finally says she is Rotchell. Yes the Rotchell of the nice body, lovely tits and pretty face but not much in the brain category. Last I saw her was in summer 2008. No word and she did not reply to my messages and was unavailable when I called her during this last Trip. She also says she "misses me" and gives me a new cellphone number also.

Guys reading here faithfully will recall that two years prior I asked her to fix Wolfie from the ISG Forum with one of her cute girlfriends. She ends up spending a night with him herself, blows him that night and Wolfie cums in her mouth (read Wolfie's post here 2007). The following morning Wolfie fucks her "riding bareback", cums inside her and kicks her out without so much as the 50 pesos ($1.02 US) taxi fare. No dinner the night before, of course, as Wolfie, "classy guy" that he is (I am being extremely sarcastic for the dim witted reader) dines alone with GoodEnough (GE told me the guy was a total jerk).

What has both these ladies changing cellphone numbers like we change clothes is most likely that they meet a lot of loser type guys, filipino and western. Have no doubt Wolfie passed Rotchell's CP# on to some other Lowlifes in the Forum. They are both very pretty and have great bodies as the nude photos I posted show. But neither one has much common sense or ability to grasp the difference between a guy who will treat them nicely or one who will "fuck them and toss them". Or a filipino who will use them for a quick blowjob before or after work or in between classes and then pass them on to his pals via her CP#.

Rotchell marked the absolute last time I ever gave ANY information on a Lady I knew to anyone in the ISG Forum. Yes I assisted ol Horny AL but I owed him a big favor and he is not the kind of guy to abuse or mistreat a lady. Besides, Slayer knows where he is. Same for the Kid, a less than successful guy with women but a gentleman just the same.

Why these "Ghosts" continue to haunt Dragon Slayer? My guess is I always treated them nicely, took them out to lunch at Claude's or Henny's or dinner and breakfast on the rooftop of the Marco Polo. Had both to GE's Estate for dinner even. Plus gifts of chocolates and perfume. Never had either one leave with out taxi fare and usually 500-1000 pesos spending money.

Cannot comprehend treating a woman I was with in any way but to make her feel a little bit special. To just fuck them and leave them is the way a pathetic loser would behave. Some guy who has no respect for women and no idea how to treat a woman.

Here are photos of the two yound ladies I took in 2008. First two are Rotchell and the last two are Jobeth.

Dragon Slayer

I love Davao.

X

X-Man,

Beautiful Lady. Where did you meet her? Nice to see you here.

Guys,

I went "hard on the money" yesterday, and purchased my plane ticker. No, I am not returning in 2-3 weeks, although it would be great. I was just curious as to flight availability and prices. I thought there was no harm in checking and looked at my work Schedule and then clicked in some dates. I was very pleasantly surprised. A suitable travel date from my City R/T to Manila was 48% less than what I paid for this last Trip. And the last time I had to book my return through Hong Kong (through Manila would have cost me $ 700 more). I like Hong Kong but I was no up at that time for shelling out the dllars for the flight from Manila to there and for the Hotel.

In any event, if you plan a Trip here in 2009, NOW is the time to purchase it. Waiting will most likely result in these cheap tickets disappearing (the next day flight would have cost me $ 100 more; five days earlier would have cost $ 250 more). At the price I paid anyone can buy a ticket. Hold yard sales for three consecutive weekends. Awaken at 6AM and get yours signs posted and your items presented for sale by 7AM. Don't be a "pack rat". Anything you have NOT used in the last year gets sold. You will have the money for your flight.

I need to update my post on staying in Davao for $ 30/day, including room, food, entertainment. Actually, $ 50/day is the minimum I think but I do know ways to do it on a lot less without living in a fucking dump or eating off street vendors (food poisoning here you go).

Dragon Slayer

Guys,

I held a Champagne Celebration for the birth of Conor similar to the one I had for Daniel back in 2006. GoodEnough kept suggesting I hold it at his Estate rather than the Marco Polo. This saved me a little money but the hassle of stopping to pick up champagne buckets from Henny, three dozen oysters at Talaba Joes and a black forest cake and cheese and french breads fromSwiss Deli was just TOO FUCKING MUCH!

My stress level had to be 90% of a possible 100 and please NOTE that we had to bring Conor and ALL his baby needs plus the four premium Champagnes. Rose had never been involved in anything like this and had no idea what to do. She had a tough time just getting Conor ready. I like to be ON TIME and my constantly saying, "honey we have to leave now" did not do much good. As I told a close friend weeks later, I would never do something like this again! Baby or no baby, a simple party at the Hotel is it! I never did recover from the stress that evening and did not enjoy the night, inspite of having brought Champagnes costing close to $ 1,000 US for the event (next time, simple, non vintage champagne in my Hotel room with hotel provided appetizers will suffice).

A few notable comments: I give Talaba Joes (Rizal St, opposite side from Habana Componud where Claude's, Chico's & Henny's are located) an A. The owner took my request by phone that afternoon from her Shop and at 6:30PM there were three dozen fresh oysters, opened and packed with ice, ready for pickup. Cost for this was P440 ($ 9.10). Swiss Deli gets an F. I am SICK of the place. I arrived simply to get some french bread and aged cheese. The two Swiss German owners were nowhere in sight and the guy waiting on me, when asked if he spoke english replied, "litten, litten".

The filipino claiming to be Manager came over. Refused to give me aged cheeses from the large block and insisted on selling me precut, wrapped. Problem was there was no price and it took the guy TEN MINUTES to look up the prices in a notebook (like this was the 70's or something). Then, the girl could NOT get the electronic cash register to work. After a dozen tries she then went to the small ten key calculator like kids use in grade school. Problem was she could NOT get it to work (was like she was performing brain surgery). All this time the filipino "manager" just stood and "observed".

Finally she resorts to 2nd grade arithmatic. Gives me a bill (no receipt) which I just pay. I comment, "this service is absolutely terrible. You both are a disgrace". I get a look from the "manager" of UTTER CONTEMPT. Had I not been 6'4", 220lbs (lost a lot of escess weight last 15 months), I am certain he would have assaulted me. He was barely in control of his faculties. When I get outside after 20 minutes doing what should have taken less than five, I add up the cheese cost and realize I was overcharged 250 pesos. So much for the girl's 2nd grade arithmatic skills!

One funny note which I related to my friends later was at GoodEnough's home that evening. He kept telling me how his two helpers were at my disposal for the event. He was, of course, being his Good Friend Self as he always is with me. But he did not realize the implications. I am still big and very tall, former ballplayer and martial arts competitor. I go into the kitchen, music playing loudly in GE's livingroom/diningrooms, to ask the one tiny maid for ice for a champange bucket. The girl, all 4'9"of her, lets out a loud squeal like she just saw "Bigfoot" and runs into the backroom, shutting the door behind her. Never saw her again that evening. Got the ice myself and returned to the Party.

Talaba Joes is a great place to get fresh oysters at a fabulous price. I imagine they have fresh shrimp there and other items. I personally NEVER liked Swiss Deli and I am fucking DONE with the Place. When I went in there they were not at all busy and there is no reason on earth for what took place. How the fuck can you have people in an expat restaurant waiting on customers who do not speak english? How can you have a "manager" like that filipino asshole?? How can you sell prepacked cheese where you need to take ten minutes or longer to find the price in some notebook? Why couldn't I buy what I wanted, cheese cut from the block and weighed like I do ALWAYS at Tinder Box in Cebu City? What is the fucking excuse for an electronic cash register NOT WORKING? Who has a girl working the register who cannot do 2nd grade arithmatic or work a ten key?? Where were the two Swiss German owners? Downstairs in the wine cellar hanging out with some Swiss German friends.

A few days later I met a Swiss German fellow I knew from O'Flanagan's. I related my story to him and he WAS NOT AT ALL SURPRISED. Told me he had similar experiences there and felt exactly like I did. And he IS Swiss German, NOT Irish American like Dragon Slayer.

I HOPE SOMEONE WILL PRINT THIS POST AND SHOW IT TO THE TWO OWNERS OF SWISS DELI. I will not go inside the premises ever again!

Dragon Slayer

Well, I'm sorry that DS didn't enjoy himself. He did arrive in somewhat of a lather, but I can tell you that I sure as hell had a good time. The champagnes were truly excellent (as always) and, complemented by the oysters which were, as DS indicates, perfectly prepared, the pickings were luscious. Of course, the fact that we also had two French people there, who know their champagnes and who were properly appreciative of the vintage wines, helped as well. And the cheeses, prepackaged though they may have been, did taste just fine.

I do understand DS' enervation however. Getting anything organized here that requires the synchronization of more than two people is, to put it kindly, somewhat of a challenge. Of course it gave DS an immediate understanding of what my life is like day-to-day in the office.

I also understand the hassles involved at Swiss Deli. When the Swiss guys are not there, chaos ensues, and no one know what to do or how to do it. This is not unique to this establishment however. For example, last week we ate at Claude's Cafe de Ville with Barba and two of his colleagues. Barba was somewhat reluctant to eat there as he had been once before, when Claude was absent, and found both the service and the food mediocre. However, he agreed to give it another shot, and found the food and service to be impeccable. Of course, Claude was there this time, as was his daughter, and there was no slacking off on the part of the staff. Thanks Barba, by the way, for being such an excellent host.

The bottom line is simply that precise organization and the achievement of any sort of reasonable consistency depends on the constant presence of the expatriate owners/managers. Without this, everything declines in quality pretty quickly.

GE

GoodEnough,

Thankyou as always for your comments. For the record, I have NEVER had a bad meal or poor service at Claude"s Cafe de Ville Restaurant or at Henny's De Bonte Koe Restaurant. This includes when Claude was ill and when Henny was back in Europ visiting Family for several weeks. Claude is a CLASS ACT. His Daughter, Celine, well what can I say: Beautiful, Charming, Fantastic Chef, Gracious Restaurant Hostess and just an excellent addition to an already fabulous dining establishment. Her Restaurant on the "Row" next to Victoria Mall should be a huge success.

My only complaints for Henny's is that I wish in the evening he would place candles on ALL Tables inside and outside. Dim the lights a little inside and raise the music volume a bit. Throwing white or light rose colored, linen table cloths down would be a nice extra as well. "Losing" the comments about how big Dragon Slayer IS and how tiny his ladies all ARE would DEFINITELY be a major improvement (I am tall, muscualr and I DO like small, "drop dead", gorgeous asian women). Not glaring at Rose's "rack of gibraltar" would not hurt either.

Guys on budgets DO try Talaba Joe's. It is open around 11AM on Sundays as well. I will be getting fresh oysters from here regularly. Three dozen fresh, opened oysters, packed in ice, for less than what I pay for a gourmet hamburger in my City at my favorite Restaurant (good hamburger, I admit). This Talaba Joes is now my top place for takeout in Davao City. I will be "smuggling" fresh oysters into the Marco Polo for "In Room" candlelight dining regularly. I need to determine if they carry fresh shrimp, crab meat, lobster, etc. Can anyone check and post here?

Dragon Slayer

Guys,

GoodEnough is quite amusing when he is out of town on business trips. Relating his experiences with food, service, people, and just the entire experience is really funny. A Hotel restaurant screwing up eggs; would de difficult I would think under normal circumstances. But then I recall on this last Trip, while in Cebu, inquiring politely (My son, Daniel and his mother were with me) why my poached eggs tasted so strange. They put vinegar on them. What the fuck!

In Ormoc City, Leyte the eggs in my Hotel Restaurant are okay. But for dinner I mostly have one of the pizzas they prepare. Not the best food for my diet but everything else is strictly filipino cuisine (fried, lots of salt and oil). Fortunately, the pizzas are good and there is a wide variety. Desserts are fine also. Any pussy is excellent!

Davao City is by far the largest city in the Mindanao and its Capital. The western amenities available here are generally lost in other Mindanao cities and the towns/villages are so far distant from western life to be scary. I am constantly asked by young women to visit places like Digos, Tagum, Cotabato, South Cotabato, Butuan, General Santos and CDO. CDO is the closest to Davao in terms of lifestyle and it is nothing like Davao. Some of these other places will have you sleeping in an unairconditioned room in the middle of nowhere. I did the "jungle life" several times when I was much younger and hated it.

Hanging out at a Sare-Sari Store, sitting on a stoll built for a midget, drinking San Miguel Beer and talking to young filipina, wondering "how the fuck did I end up in this dump"? I once had to ride "shotgun" on a jeepney into town in Zamboanga City. I stood on one railing and held on with my hand. Room only for my one foot so the other just "hung in the air" as we bumped alond. Had to be at least a dozen people sitting on the roof. SO I figured I got one of the "better spots" (less chance of being thrown to the ground should a rough piece of road come up).

GoodEnough texted me that my little MJ, 21 y/o waitress at the Davao fast food place, texted him again for a "Dragon Slayer Loan" via GE. It worked once so she thought no harm in trying again. I called her and sent the funds to her directly. She was very happy. She has a baby and is struggling to just survive. But she always smiles and never complains. I DO like her.

A couple photos.

Dragon Slayer

thank you to, ge. i had a great time, and so did my colleagues. changed my mind 180 on claude's establishment. the food and grape juice was super! looking forward to read your report on cusina selera. if you just can't stomach the combination of fine dining and filipino food (perhaps a contradiction itself? ). stick to the mohitos because they go down like ice cream on a sunny summer day. see you in september.

and getting back to the idea of this forum. did barba find any punani in between his effort at work or in bars? yes, and started operation dismiss in addition. it can get to much sometimes. 26 text messages when you open your eyes in the morning. phone buzzing of incoming fire for minutes in your pocket while you are talking the knickers of some sweet girl you actually like. like an obsession to fuck once more, even if you kissed the last one good bye just a few hours ago. cyalis stirring up a boner again, just from the whiff of the wind. i'll die with a hard on and a 37 kilo chica going cow girl style on top of me, if i continue like this. next trip will is dedicated to work, relaxation, mountain trips on the bike and fishing in davao gulf. no more pussy! yea right.

for the ones looking for sleazy cockroach infested massage places i saw a couple down querino. look in the area of station 91. there are some around san pedro as well. one thing i learned from an early morning visit once some months ago. bring some paper towels if you do not fancy the "masseuse" to wipe of your dick with the second hand rags used for weeks in these std centrals. i'll try anything twice but better wait a decade or three to have a second go at this kind of "massage". (yes i had paper in my pocket.)

keep it sleazy!

barba

barba, either you were completely drunk while writing this post, or maybe you are a skillfull poet. maybe both.

damn, black eyed peas just came on the afn (tokyo) radio. how appropriate. i feel like i'm back in the philippines. tonight's going to be a good night.

lets do it again.

x i got a feeling!

[quote=barba]thank you to, ge. i had a great time, and so did my colleagues. changed my mind 180 on claude's establishment. the food and grape juice was super! looking forward to read your report on cusina selera. if you just can't stomach the combination of fine dining and filipino food (perhaps a contradiction itself? ). stick to the mohitos because they go down like ice cream on a sunny summer day. see you in september.

and getting back to the idea of this forum. did barba find any punani in between his effort at work or in bars? yes, and started operation dismiss in addition. it can get to much sometimes. 26 text messages when you open your eyes in the morning. phone buzzing of incoming fire for minutes in your pocket while you are talking the knickers of some sweet girl you actually like. like an obsession to fuck once more, even if you kissed the last one good bye just a few hours ago. cyalis stirring up a boner again, just from the whiff of the wind. i'll die with a hard on and a 37 kilo chica going cow girl style on top of me, if i continue like this. next trip will is dedicated to work, relaxation, mountain trips on the bike and fishing in davao gulf. no more pussy! yea right.

for the ones looking for sleazy cockroach infested massage places i saw a couple down querino. look in the area of station 91. there are some around san pedro as well. one thing i learned from an early morning visit once some months ago. bring some paper towels if you do not fancy the "masseuse" to wipe of your dick with the second hand rags used for weeks in these std centrals. i'll try anything twice but better wait a decade or three to have a second go at this kind of "massage". (yes i had paper in my pocket.)

keep it sleazy!

barba[/quote]

I'd say both. And in addition I got "help" from some editor/parser software to insert punctuations where there should be none.

Well, I had nothing important to say anyway.

B

barba,

honestly, i do enjoy reading your posts and i look forward to them.

guys,

i contacted a few of the ladies i met last trip here in davao. the sister who watched me fuck her older sister and texted me a week later was one. she sounded happy to hear from me. i hope to see her next trip. her sister talked constantly, both boring and tormenting me. i kept pulling my dick out and shoving it in her mouth to quiet her. when you have nothing worthwhile to say, shut the fuck up!

never heard another peep from ol brad. might have gotten lost enroute to cebu and ended up in hong kong. did actually hear from the kid. only the second time this year. i do not ask and he does not offer any information on his "impending marriage" to "scuzzy rose" in davao city. had no idea when she gave me her cp# to give to the kid back in early february 2006 that this would be continuing now. i must have gotten cp#s from over 500 filipinas plus more than 200 in china and dozens more in hong kong, japan and thailand. perhaps this is the difference as the kid got only the two i forwarded to him: rose and gem in manila. guess he, like a lot of guys that are "nolan ryan's" (mlb all time 'strikeout king') with women, they hang onto whomever looks at them crosswise, fearing there will never be another.

i will try the place out by the airport this trip. it will be a nice alternative for a few days. from the photos it looks very nice and it is secure, one important requirement for me. need a new place to avoid "take charge" filipinas coming by looking for me whenever the mood takes them. sick of women coming by unannounced and textimg me, stating their presence in the marco polo lobby and inquiring as to what room i am inhabiting. or "lying in ambush" like a leopard as i walk through the lobby to a taxi. would not be a good occasion if rose and my infant son were accompanying me. imagine rose "handing off" the baby to one of the lobby hostesses so she can "trash some filipina interloper".

dragon slayer

Davao is nice and you may think it's easy to book a nice hotel. It isn't't. Make reservations.

I prefer pool, but Apo view, A. Hotel, were fully booked. Marco Polo offerred me a room for 12, 000 pesos. No thank you.

Actually, Marco Polo told me that they would have to ask Dragonslayer to move out to give me the room. Go figure.

I ended up at Galleria, a place recommended by GE in the past. I've given a neg. Review, but not so sure. Pool is small, restaurant is passable. I liked the exercise walking up to the fourth floor (no elevator), but after a bit of Davao diareahha. It sucked. (better men than me can spell this word! ). But, if you don't mind stairs, and can book 401. Well, I liked it.

X




Interestingly, I booked 401 the top floor. The balcony stretches the whole front of the building, which is very nice.

While driving daily throughout Davao, I've noticed several new apartments and apartels going up, or just completed. One new one is the Casa Leticia 2, on Lanang Rd. in Matina. It's advertising rooms from Php888, and I have no idea of the quality. However, the original Casa Leticia isn't bad, and this might be a reasonable, fairly low cost alternative. I've noticed that few people write about Casa Ruby just off Bakaka Rd., but the few people to whom I've recommended this small hotel seem to have thoroughly enjoyed the place. It's a bit off the beaten track, but an easy ten minute taxi ride to the center of town. For those wanting to stay in the Damosa area, a bit further north on Lanang, there's a reasonably new Micro Hotel. It has no pool but it is adjacent to Damosa Gate, lots of restaurants and bars, and within easy reach of an enormous call center for those wishing to troll for call center agents.

I had a written a while ago about the closing of El Toro, Henny's Spanish restaurant which was just across the courtyard from this major restaurant De Bonte Koe. Apparently, the Turkish guy who was going to take over the site has backed out, and now it's being taken over by an American guy with a S. African partner. They're going to open a Mexican restaurant called Dos Amigos, sometime in October. Claude's daughter is opening a new place on September 18th in the Victoria Mall area. It will offer reasonably-priced French food and wines.

There's a fairly new Thai restaurant called Bangkok Wok in the new Robinson's shopping center on Lanang. We've eaten there a couple of times and the food is fine and reasonably priced.

The range of restaurant choices in Davao is increasing quickly, and those of us, like me, who do not particularly enjoy the local cuisine have a growing set of options.

GE