The Tale of Lost Diners ( Kainan sa Dalampasigan, Nasugbu Batangas)

a sample of owner's investment to give this place a unique appeal and its guests something to talk over while enjoying the house specialty recipe of tanigue)

I fell in love with the motiff, looked really enchanting with those vines, fountains. And added to its favor is the proximity to the beach.. ooohh dat has taken me of course.i said, one day i'l dine here. and so i did. and the experience was more than unforgettable.

We actually toured the coastline of batangas!! talkin bout love of food and beaches!

We started from a bus from Alabang, and a jeepney towards Lemery. After two more jeepney stops and four hours later we did after all reach the town(Balayan) that would bring us to Nasugbu in another hour. (mind you we were still lucky at that coz we actually beat the last trip!)


By the time we arrived, we were hungry so we headed for the restaurant in the heart of the town, Kainan Sa Dalampasigan. The placed seemed to cater to a wedding just that afternoon and the fountain ain’t got a drop of water but yes the place was very unique and the crawling plants were all over the place including the pillars which we thought were purposely built for them. We had a filling meal of kare-kare . The food was homey although by this time we were so tired to truly appreciate the taste.I couldn’t tell much about the beauty of the place similar to the raves, though the restrooms were designed to make it look quaint and old yet neat.

My immediate need right after i was able to fill in the hunger was to set my weary foot in the sand and to ease the worries of the travellers in us. I thirst for the sea. and the beach which we thought was just footprints away is actually about 300m far along.( or was that more?)

I have always love the feel of the sand on the sole of my feet, the chill of the breeze of the sea and the saltiness of the air round me. The night is dim, cloudy and wouldn’t show us all of the constellation, but it was enough to see the shadow of the stillness of the water beyond me. The silence, the peace, you know what it can do. I found myself reflecting. this day had been a cluster of emotions, and i embraced the faults and victory of this day..

and so the journey had to go on. The last trip was 8pm and we’re an hour late. what did we do in this ungodly hour in a province where people sleep after only the 7th hour passed noon? we hired and bargained with two separate tricycles so we could reach the junction separating lian from nasugbu, where manila-bound vehicles pass. and there waited for our last ride.. at past 10pm and after a couple of not so fun thought (actually scary) of being in the darkness of this foreboding road, two man-angels in a jeepney full of sacks of variety of fishes stopped to give us a hitch.. I couldn’t give enough tale of that experience, seated beside the driver, talking just about anything, with the stench of the fish all around us. It was a long uncomfortable ride thru rosario cavite but it was uncomfortably fun. I forgot the names of these two people but the ride which took more than an hour, though physically numbing is very memorable.

Someone, hand me a map please!