Cafe Bodega: A Cafe Literally on the Rocks

Once upon a time, there was an enchanted mountain.  And on top of that enchanted mountain is a big rock.  And on top of that big rock is a cafe where all their staff were polite and courteous.  And the food that they serve are all fresh and glorious.  Well enough of that story.  You might start to think that I'm only telling you a fairy tale.  Well, the good news is I'm not.

Cafe Bodega had their soft opening in 2005 and been cooking good food in their kitchen ever since.  I should tell you, when I first heard of them, I was actually skeptical and thought that the place was purely overrated.  Until I've made my first visit.  I got really excited when we received our invitation from Wanda, who is the owner/manager of the place.  We immediately set a date for our visit.

Going to Cafe Bodega was quite an adventure really.  The road that leads to the place was not yet developed and to be honesty, it was  a really shaky ride.  Me and my friend were already getting out of our car on the parking lot, still wondering what's so special about this place.  "This better be good," I've told myself.  The moment we steeping infront of the entrance, my eyes went big.  The front door was all covered with vines and yellow and red flowers called Lady's Shoes.  It was like a scene from the movie The Secret Garden.   Suddenly, I felt like a kid getting all excited to open up a nicely wrapped present.  I had to rip it open; I had to go in. read more...

An Incident: Writing From The Lemon Pie House (English)

Reminder:  The letter that you are about to read was a letter I wrote for my good friend, Oly.  I was just telling him what happened tonight because it involved his friends and his friends' friends.   I found this letter to be very accurate and that is why I'm posting it in my blog.  We've decided to write this post in English so that other non-Tagalog visitors can also understand.  If you would like to read this post in Tagalog, click here.  We encourage all our readers to comment on this matter.  So if you are against business staff cruelty by stupid and arrogant tourists/guests, then you'd better sit and read my story.  Because this might happen to you or your loved ones.  This is a real story and I think you should take the time to read it.  Thank you so much.

Hi Oly, I'm so sorry for not writing to you for so long.  Something happened here at the Lemon Pie House and I thought that you should know about it.  Your friends came here tonight together wth their other friends as well.  One of their friends who I called "the Witch" because of her really big curly hair and with a really bad attitude, went to the bathroom only to find that there was somebody else inside taking a shower. She also heard that there was a washing machine running inside the bathroom.  So the witch came to me and asked me "Is there somebody taking a shower in the bathroom?" I said yes.  Then she asked me another question: "Is that a washing machine that I'm hearing?" I said yes.  Impatiently, she sat on a nearby chair and suddenly yelled to her friends and said "Someone is taking a shower inside the bathroom!!!"  She was so thoughtless of others, not even thinking that that person inside could be the owner or someone that works in the shop.  I got really upset but I've decided to hold back my anger and just let the incident pass.  Until they came back that night.  read more...