So strange...
Manila - I think once you start to record things you will find that 'humans are in fact creatures of habit'. Lesley asked me whether I wanted to start at the same hotel again and I decided hmmm, let's change to Mandarin Oriental Hotel. I thought I have not stay at this hotel before, but I did exactly last year 2010 in July - how strange....
I knew that Mandarin Oriental is part of the KrisFlyer programe so I asked for the room to be credited with 500 miles and was told that my room is below the point crediting status. So, I asked what is the point level to be given the miles and it was 6,000 pesos. My room rate was 5,999 pesos - so I made a big fuss that because of 1 peso the hotel is not allowing me to get the 500 miles. How stupid can they be? Maybe I should not stay here again...the front desk need to check for 5 pesos whether I can get my 500 miles - what a joke?
Of course, I will get it.
Dinner, we went to Fely J's Kitchen @ Green Belt 5. Unlike staying at New World Hotel, we had to walk about 500 metres to Green Belt.
Website: http://ljcrestaurants.com.ph/fely-j/
This restaurant serves Filipinos cuisine and it's delicious.
The waitress are friendly and very knowledgable - such a contrast of service in Singapore even though served by Filipinos. The waitresses are paid so much more in Singapore but their service is 10x worse than in Philippines - why?
We had the Relenong Pusit - which is actually sotong stuffed with prawns and pork, Lechon Kawali - 3 layer pork fried and their FJ delicious rice; which came in a huge plate with fried anchovies. The food is really but we could not finish the rice.
We were tempted to try their desert - Tequila Chocolate cake (very nice...) and Sikreto Maria (literally means Maria's Secret, which turn out to be rice pudding, mangoes topped with vanila ice cream.
I knew that Mandarin Oriental is part of the KrisFlyer programe so I asked for the room to be credited with 500 miles and was told that my room is below the point crediting status. So, I asked what is the point level to be given the miles and it was 6,000 pesos. My room rate was 5,999 pesos - so I made a big fuss that because of 1 peso the hotel is not allowing me to get the 500 miles. How stupid can they be? Maybe I should not stay here again...the front desk need to check for 5 pesos whether I can get my 500 miles - what a joke?
Of course, I will get it.
Dinner, we went to Fely J's Kitchen @ Green Belt 5. Unlike staying at New World Hotel, we had to walk about 500 metres to Green Belt.
Website: http://ljcrestaurants.com.ph/fely-j/
This restaurant serves Filipinos cuisine and it's delicious.
The waitress are friendly and very knowledgable - such a contrast of service in Singapore even though served by Filipinos. The waitresses are paid so much more in Singapore but their service is 10x worse than in Philippines - why?
We had the Relenong Pusit - which is actually sotong stuffed with prawns and pork, Lechon Kawali - 3 layer pork fried and their FJ delicious rice; which came in a huge plate with fried anchovies. The food is really but we could not finish the rice.
We were tempted to try their desert - Tequila Chocolate cake (very nice...) and Sikreto Maria (literally means Maria's Secret, which turn out to be rice pudding, mangoes topped with vanila ice cream.
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