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Cebu has become a website destination with awesome local restaurants and cheap finds. One of the restaurants that seem to be off the social media radar is this Asian restaurant that is known by, surprisingly, expats, as one of Cebu's finest gems. Hello, The Oriental Spice Gourmet. It is easy to miss this restaurant located along Maximo V. Patalinghug Jr. Avenue as it's huge signage simply says TOSG, the initials of the restaurant. But thanks to Waze, we didn't miss our stop.

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Dyan Eloisa Sumamban

Update review (June 23,2021) I read in a review here to try the aburi salmon hotate mayo. For 550pesos, it was supposed to be good. Disappointed though, it was bland for me. I'm not that of a website so i guess my taste won't be as refined as others. To future diners, maybe skip this because for me it isn't worth your money. We got the usual skewers which for ok. Supaishi salmon sashimi was spicy but good. The shake salmon roll was meh. Their iced tea was very good. Service was faster than usual. What's weird though was no one was at their gate to receive guests so we thought we'd wait by the thermometer and someone would come to assist. For sure, the waiters saw us but no one bothered to wave us in. We just decided to walk up to their desk inside and that's when they ushered us in. Pre-pandemic:We went on a Monday night and it was half-packed with diners. It's quite noisy but still fine for us. We were quickly seated and left with the menus. We ordered katsu curry, monster maki, spicy salmon sashimi, 2sticks of aspara bacon, 2sticks of enoki bacon and 2sticks of saikoro beef plus drinks. Katsu curry was the best! It was as described in reviews. 5/5 for me. It was very flavorful. Katsu wasn't dry. With hefty serving of the curry sauce. If you're hungry and you want a dish solely to yourself, better get this. Monster maki. We got this over the equally famous Oeda Maki which has unagi in it. This was filling too, 3 pcs and it made me feel full already. Nothing so special tho. 3.5/5 for meSkewers. I've always liked skewers especially the wagyu cubes. They were served hot. 4/5 for me

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