THEOry of Food: November 2012

Besides going to Boracay in 2006, this was the only time I get to ride a plane and leave Luzon. Davao was extremely beautiful. The air was clean, people were extra kind and nice and Samal Island was a real sight for sore eyes. Forgive me, I haven’t done this for a while but hey, let’s start with the food.

You can’t visit Davao without trying some durian (good thing you can’t smell ‘em now, right?). On the second day of our trip, we went snorkeling in Talikod island and getting there required you to get on boat. After getting to Coral Park and done with a little snorkeling, John, my cousin was given a big piece of durian. The boatman insist that John eat some since it will be his first time tasting the stinky fruit-city slickers don’t just eat durian right away. When I got back to the boat, John already had two bites of durian and he wanted me to try it-so I did. It tasted like a very sweet slab of corned beef, I kid you not. I suggest you try it; I’ll let you know if I ever try eating it again. Haha!

If you’re not the stinky fruit type, I suggest you try a little more something extreme. Eat a croc. Yup, C-R-O-C, the animals that Steve Irwin was always wrangling with. It was not that taboo for me since I look at it as if crocodiles were farmed for multiple purposes like getting their skin, eating their meat and preserving the species. It’s all good. We had Crocodile sisig. Sisig is a Filipino dish made from parts of pig’s head and liver, usually seasoned with calamansi and chili peppers, but in this case, they used crocodile meat. It was good since crocodiles are really meaty, like almost no fat. I only felt muscles in my mouth. It was a really hard meal to chew but it was worth a try. I was actually looking for frozen crocodile meat that I can take to Manila so I can crocodile adobo, but there was none available.

Getting back to the city proper, we hunted down the best place to eat since we would want to steer away from the regular McDonald’s and Jollibee, we ended up eating at Coco’s and Lyndon’s. Coco’s had a T.G.I.Fridays vibe to it, they have great food. I had their Chipotle Burger. I expected good food since the place is visually appealing-plus it tastes impressive and the serving was huge. What surprised me were Lyndon’s ribs; the local told us that you’d be able to eat baby back ribs/steak for less than 200Php. That Davao local was heaven sent because those were the damn best ribs I had-ever. It was so juicy, flavorful and it was cheap beyond imagination. We had the 500gms ribs; it had corn and a cup of rice with it. The ribs were already covered in sauce but they still gave us extra sauce in case we still want more. Let me tell you now, I’d go back to Davao just to have the ribs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I have one happy tummy. Hopefully we’d have more food adventures to come. Here are some pictures of our trip.