Dampa : Tonya's

The lady on green  facing on your right _ Tess  last visited P.I. six years ago. So when Tess saw my blog post about Dampa with another bff Lulu who's N.Y. based ( see that post here and here ) , this Sydney based bff called us up right away for a request of a Dampa lunch for her already then scheduled visit with her family.



So upon arrival, after few hours warming in their hotel, off we went for a lunch in Dampa, Macapagal.






Ofcourse, our Dampa expert bff couple hosted the lunch. Straight from our hometown, we met them at the place. Along with the seafoods they gathered at the wet market of the place, were freshly catched fishes they brought along from our  province.

This is one of those. So you could also do that. Seafoods are not meant to be exclusively bought from the Dampa market. Anyway, restos cooking charge here is per kilo and don't mind where the sea food come from.



Other fish was cooked as sinigang sa miso ( a filipino soup based dish).

Crabs were cooked two ways_ sweet chili crabs and the resto's own crab special.

Prawns were sweetly buttered.

Grilled stuffed squid.

Always present on the table_ green mango-bagoong salad.






The Pinoy -Aussie family obviously missed our pinoy seafood and was excited to partake on the table feast.

The eldest  shown a lot of love to our pinoy dishes.

The younger siblings were not so aware yet of what was happening on the table and were happy about their rice bowl with nothing on it but the sinigang soup.

I have to mention thu' that this resto _ Tonya's had one of the best cooking I had tried in the area. Expert bff/host agreed and added that this is one of the pioneer in Dampa cooking way back from the first Dampa in Baclaran.



We were all happy tummies. Left overs were inevitable thu'. Always, everytime we eat at Dampa, there would always be half full left.



So we had them on a home dinner before we went out for a bar. hahaha!!! Happiness with best friends!!!