what's cooking, Cebu???: 9/2/07

There were three things I couldn't get over from my recent trip to sun-kissed Boracay... the exquisite beach (super fine sand... huge crashing waves) the Flying Fish and of course, the absolutely delicious Crazy Crepes... huge tasty crepes filled with luscious toppings of your choice, rolled into a cone like one gigantic ice cream cone that you can walk around with. It was a novel way of eating crepes; I like the fact that they had completely stripped off the crepe's image of being a fancy treat served in just-as-fancy restaurants. I, in particular, fell in love with Crazy Crepes' blueberry-vanilla crepe overloaded with blueberries in syrup, vanilla ice cream, oh-so-yummy whipped cream and corn flakes as well as the peach-vanilla (same thing minus the blueberries.) I couldn't decide which one to have so I had Marc get the blueberry while I ordered the peach (I ended up eating both of them...Hehe! >:p)

You could just imagine the savory experience... we were in crepe heaven. So when Chinx, Marc and I saw a poster of Crepes-a-Go-Go on one of Ayala Cebu's surface parking lots boasting of something akin to the Crazy Crepes that we fell in love with in Boracay, we were all out of our pants itching to give it a try. It also helped that the crepes cost an average of 35 pesos (+ -)apiece, waaayyyy lower than what Crazy Crepes cost in Boracay (around 75-100++ pesos.)Chinx, in particular, couldn't wait after we had dinner; she ordered one right away, ("One strawberry crepe please... so we can taste it first, " she reasoned out.) We were glad she did though because it proved to be a disappointment.

The crepe was a mess, as if the staff making it hadn't had much training on the proper way of making a neat crepe. One crepe took a very long time to make and the crepe cook could make only one crepe at a time despite the fact that they had 2 crepe makers and there were two persons in charge, in the first place. While one cooks, the other one simply just stands there and giggles as if she's embarrassed to do anything. When the crepe was done, they gave it to us so hot on a paper cone that Chinx ended up tossing it to me and I ended up tossing it on the table. So much for presentation. We didn't know what to say. The crepe was too floppy, it couldn't be held in a cone, which totally ruined the concept of crepes to go. I know crepes are supposed to be made thin but if it can't even hold its shape enough to be held by hand... I mean, why bother? I think it would be better served in a nice plate instead. Taste-wise... the filling was yummy but I didn't particular care for the crepe itself. It was chewey and tasted bland.

It was a far cry from the Crazy Crepes that we fell in love with in Bora. Maybe it's because Crepes-a-Go-Go was recently launched and the staff was new to the whole crepe making thing. Maybe in a week or two, we would see some improvements. But I don't see myself craving for any Crepes-a-Go-Go anytime soon. = (