After the long trip towards San Vicente from Puerto Princesa City which is about three hours, we stopped by Mango Bar and Restaurant at the Poblacion, San Vicente Market and we were quite surprised with the menu offerings and the respite it provided. We were en route to the Long Beach, Irawan Beach, Alimaguan Beach, Sto. Nino Beach and Binga Beach which are all spectacular to say the least.

Mango Bar and Restaurant serve menu food and drinks and offer some surprises off its sleeve.

The food was fresh and the squid and the fish ceviche is truly extraordinary. Maybe we were famished from the travel or maybe the milieu of the place or maybe the freshness of the ingredients and maybe the combination of these factors make the experience more than pleasant.

But we expect the surprise coming by way of the beach but nature prepared something unexpected. Together with the avocado shake that we ordered was apparently “green honey” which when we researched was a special honey endemic to Palawan and comes from special bees mostly underground. The taste is almost quite like the honey we used to but this there is something unique about it.

And more surprises as we witness electric tricycles plying the streets of Poblacion of San Vicente. The talk about green adoption of environmentally friendly environment is not just talk in these parts.

And there was more – the view from the Mango Bar and Restaurant was the San Vicente Bay which provides the ocean breeze from the West Philippine Sea. The place is full of promise and potential or potential and promise which we hope will materialize in the years to come.

And the beaches were amazing from end to end of every long stretch of sand. If you relocate, relocate to Paradise and San Vicente is indeed Paradise. But that is for another story and for another day.