GOODTASTE RESTAURANT — Restaurant in Baguio

Hello everyone

I have just returned to Baguio after a 2 year absence. We decided to go to our favourite restaurant “ Good Taste Rizal Street” . It was amazing,early Saturday afternoon no queue to get a table. Just walked in , noticed plenty of empty seats. Sat down , and talking with my wife about how instantly we noticed that things had changed. Less Staff Self serve water We ordered a meal for myself, my wife, daughter and grandson. Instantly we noticed prices had gone up. Gone up by a lot ! With less service

We got our meals The H&Spicy Chicken was different . Burnt ,Tasted different and more sugar. Sinigang Baboy Big not the same , not all vegetables and pork little. Halo Halo missing some ingredients. Egg pie was extremely small The cream puff was not fresh. ( yesterdays????)

The next day we decided to go to Good Taste Lapu Lapu Street.

A queue outside to get in . A jug of water served straight away. (No self serve) Upon sitting down and looking at the menu we decided to take a photo of the menu and compare the cost of our meal from Rizal Street to Lapu-Lapu Street.. This is the difference: RIZAL: H&Spicy GB Chix Whole. P 715 LAPU: H&Spicy GB Chix Whole. P 500

RIZAL: Sinigang Baboy Big P540 LAPU: Sinigang Baboy Big P315

RIZAL: G T RICE. X2. P430 LAPU: G T RICE. X2. P310

RIZAL: Beef Broccoli Rice P230 LAPU: Beef Broccoli Rice. P160

RIZAL: Beef Chopsuey Rice P210 LAPU: Beff Chopsuey Rice. P160

RIZAL: Cucumber Lemonade 20 oz. P75 LAPU: Cucumber Lemonade 20 oz. P70

RIZAL: Halo Halo X2. P270 LAPU: Halo Halo X2. P220

RIZAL: Egg Pie. ( small slice ). P70 LAPU: Egg Pie. (Regular slice). P45

RIZAL: Cream Puff ( stale, small) P35 LAPU: Cream Puff ( fresher , bigger, delicious). P25

I won’t be going back unless someone tells me they have change and I will compare again.

The cost of eating the same meals:

RIZAL P2575 LAPU P1811

P1811 + 42.2% =2,575

So now I know why RIZAL has no queue outside to get in. RIZAL offers NO SERVICE , Smaller portions , not all the ingredients And not fresh .

I refuse to pay 42.2% more. FOR LESS You should...

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I bet you’ll be so confused walking into this restaurant, in so many ways it feels like a massive cafeteria meant to feed a prison compound 😂 … but it is not, it is a really popular local eatery that has been around for a long time.

You’ll have to begin with the chains setup outside meant for line control for the files of people going in. Then the entrance— it feels more like you are walking into a factory floor of sort than a restaurant. When you get in, you’ll see various ‘stations’ . It is so massive they have a few cashier stations lol. The kitchen resembles a car assembly line than a kitchen. It’s big and industrial looking. Then a station for beverages in with a big gigantic sign. Another area with a gigantic sign shouting out that this is the Bakery section.

Now the food: They are famous for the butter fried chicken. It is really kind of like a sweet and sour deep fried chicken served with egg, white rice and veggies. It’s a local comfort food. I wouldn’t say it is the best tasting food ever but it is objectively not. But I’ll give it a pass. The whole serving was quite a hearty meal. I did like the vegetable stir fry.

Halabos na hipon - is a popular boiled shrimp dish. I ordered it. The shrimp tasted a bit ‘not fresh’ you can tell that when the shell sticks to the meat. It was average overall. Still it satisfied my craving as I was really wanting one since I arrived in Philippines.

Outside: You’ll have to check some of the funny signs outside. One that says they are not affiliated with the mayor and don’t ask for money. Another sign says something about don’t spit on the parking lot. Is this really a prison...