The above photo is from the front of the bar looking towards the water. There are dining tables in addition to the bar stools.
I don’t spend much time at the actual bar though.
Speaking of which, this is one of the few places in town where you can’t buy the attention of a waitress for the price of a lady drink. This is not to say the staff isn’t friendly. In fact, I’m Facebook friends with at least three of them. I’m always made to feel like an honored guest when I arrive, which is nice.
So, a seat with a view, cold beer, kindly folks to serve me; what else could I ask for? Well, Mango’s is also one of my favorite restaurants. I love the grilled pork chops especially, although lately they frequently haven’t been available. Like on this visit. Oh well, just give me a roast chicken salad then.
Regular readers may recall that during the early days of the lockdown last year a certain bar on the beach continued serving their regular customers in the manner of a speakeasy. I’m not saying where that was, but I always appreciated their trust and I’ve tried to repay it with my loyalty.
The music is low-key, happy hour beers are 70 pesos, and 90 pesos thereafter. No extra charge for the beach views. I like this place. A lot.
Where things stand so far:
- It Doesn’t Matter
- Mango’s Beach Bar
- Alley Cats
- Finger Monkeys
- Adam’s
- Blue Butterfly
- Out Back Billabong
- Dynamite Dick’s
- Palm Tree
- Hideaway
- Rosies
- Rock Lobster
- Queen Victoria
- Voodoo
- Annex
- MacArthur’s
- Redz Pub
- Whiskey Girl
Sounds as if Mango’s deserves its high ranking.
Back when I was going out with Seung-min (called her “Ligament” on the blog back in the day), we once had a provocative conversation about slang expressions for pussy-eating. I mentioned “eating a peach” as one US English term for the act (do the Brits say that, too? dunno); Seung-min, who knew Japanese, said the Japanese slang was “eating a mango,” probably for the same notion of juices running down your chin as you gobble. As a result, every time you’ve mentioned Mango’s on your blog, that’s where my thoughts go.
As far as I can tell, the Korean slang is simply “eat pussy,” no fruits mentioned, although there is a Japanese-derived term for the act (sakachi, makes me think “suck-crotchy”).
Enjoy that mango!
That’s funny! Yeah, I remember your Ligament references back in the day. My high school girlfriend (yeah, we’re still friends, go figure) calls it eating pumpkin pie. I told her recently I still love eating pumpkin pie and she asked if I’d gotten any better at it. Bitch.
Anyway, the Tagalog slang for pussy is pek-pek. A favorite Filipino dish is called crispy pada. Sometimes I get confused and ask the waitress for crispy pek-pek. They usually laugh.
I’m going to have to ask Pearl, who speaks some Japanese, about sakachi. I’m feeling hungry for some reason…