oriental spice gourmet

i can no longer count how often i've been here or have ordered for pick up 😂 the manager is great! she's easy to talk to and she makes an effort to get to know her customers. the food is delicious

as a frequent traveler for food and culture, this restaurant brings peranakan, malay and singaporean cuisine to cebu in all its unpretentious yet satisfying glory!!! always a must-try!

the menu as header from this restaurant is old, please see the updated menu we post as photos. after passing this restaurant so often and always no parking space available in the evening, we decided to come for lunch on sunday. there were just few cars there so we could  park. the food is in our opinion authentic as we know during our journey to thailand, malaysia, singapore and indonesia. furthermore,  i lived over 4 years in singapore as 'expat' so i guess, i know food from this regions too. we were food lovers, so we went few times a week visiting one restaurant after the other, from hawkers centers to restaurants in hotels. it tasted good so far what we ordered: mee goreng, prawn in coconut sauce, vietnamese spring rolls. it cost about 1k for two of us. the wife of the owner is a nice person who personally talked to us about what food they are serving and what would be our preference. the husband is a malaysian chef, but british citizen. the restaurant itself is clean and cozy.

definitely authentic. they have space for parking which is definitely a plus. prices are okay. the manager takes your order and makes sure you know what you’re doing 😂 she basically did the whole “ordering food” for us. service was fast and accommodating too. they now have a function room advertised on their second floor.

very accommodating manager. great place for friendly get togethers. reasonable prices. one of the most authentic tasting asian cuisine in cebu. must try!
ps. always listen to the owner. 😋

the food was delicious, the service was very good. the waiter is also the owner so if she knows that it's your first time, she will suggest what tastes good, so that you would like to comeback again, and we would like to come back. the price to serving ration is very good.

the food is really great! what we ordered was just enough. the owner will also recommend great dishes in the menu. the menu prices here need updating as it has increased.

i want to commend the extra ordinary service. i think it was the owner or manager who accommodated us and she suggested what to eat depending on our capacity to eat. she would also ask if you are a first timer and would suggest very good food according to what seems to be more likely you would love. i love it! everything tastes so authentic. would definitely go back. 🤗

i had a good hearty laugh at this place!❤️

we went there for lunch, we were seated by one of the waitresses. the owner immediately approached us and asked if we were first timers and if we were super hungry, in which we immediately said yes! 😂

she recommended some items which were best paired with one another[i.e bak tuh teh, nasi goreng, some noodle i forgot the name sorry!]

being the "tom yum" addict that i was, i told her that i was getting the tom yum, chicken tomato curry? and nasi goreng.. to which the owner said "no! dli ko sugot, dli mo malingaw.. dli namo mamalik!" hahaha. and so we ordered the combination that she suggested..

we didnt regret it!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 for first time diners, listen to the owner! 😂 she knows whats best!!

though we didnt regret listening to her, i still want my tom yum next time im back!🤣

i have read a couple of reviews about this place and it got me really intrigued because they were all positive feedbacks. we were on our way to a wedding fair in cordova so we decided to have lunch here. glad we were assisted right away because we were starving. we ordered spicy beef, mee goreng, roti, and a cup of rice. as per the person who took our order (i think she's the owner), we wouldn't need two cups of rice because the stir fried noodles was a little too much with two cups of rice. better yet replace it with roti. we followed her advice and to our surprise, she was right. everything tasted good and the service was remarkable. 🖒

our osg experience was perfect! the food was naturally good, no after taste whatsoever as its well spiced. the place was cozy. owner/front manager was very welcoming, fast service, crews are proactive. for first timers, they would really give you good food recommendation. and i personally love their cream cheese flan!

the food is superb i love this place... can't wait to come back. i love the mee goreng and the chicken satay they're delicious. the price is on point!

cebu has become a foodie 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.

the food was delish. 100% like no joke. the owner is very approachable and for first timers, they would recommend you dishes. the restaurant feels like home because of the home style cooking. would visit them next time and maybe we will be regulars by the time

i have a ton of backlogs and i want to slowly (but surely) finish them, focusing on establishments from cebu before i officially go back to manila. 😹

i discovered this place again because of jp. amazingly, even as i've been living and working in mactan for a while now, none of my local friends actually know about his awesome hole-in-the-wall restaurant. hahaha 😹 i've kept this on my must-visit list for almost a year now.

so when mls and ejb were in mactan, they asked me for recommendations on good eats. i brought them to this place, and as soon as we came to the place i got a call from working asking me to come back, talk about bad timing. 😿 but i'm glad that even as i had to leave shortly after the food came it, they still had their lunch there. i read ej's glowing review, and i think they enjoyed so yey! they were both so nice as well that they left a whole serving of food so i can also try them, and so i am writing this review. 😻

1.) spicy beef and roti paratha
this was delicious! the sauce was great, it had a nice curry flavor and the meat was very tender, even as it was already cold when i ate it. i still appreciated it very much. the roti that came with it was also very delicious. 😻

2.) mee goreng
jusko ansarap! the spiciness was great and exactly the way i like it. the noodles was nicely booked and the they were actually very generous with the toppings. the falvor of the stir-fried noodles was very well balanced - savory with the right amount of salty, a tinge of sweet and a whole lot of good. i really liked it! ❤️

3.) nasi goreng
this was my favorite in indonesia, and i'm glad their version is very authentic. i particularly liked that they put crispy anchovies (dilis)! it really made the dish explode with flavor, but not too much. the rice was of a very nice texture, and the fried rice wasn't oily at all. i absolutely loved this dish! 😻

i will definitely come back to this restaurant! it is such a gem in the island of mactan! 😻