Good restaurants that have disappeared

[dr. d]

chateau verde inside UP diliman campus.. we would suffer crosstown traffic just to eat here.
sr thai. the branch beside the office closed down. i wonder if the ust branch is still open.. operated by a thai native.
tropical hut quezon ave near delta. the best hamburgers before the payaso and the bubuyog..
that small chinese restaurant inside the grocery (disappeared, too) along quezon ave corner delta.. beside st mary. the pancits were great.
magnolia ice cream house where rob magnolia now stands. i could never tire of their creme de menthe.. even now, i can't find their green creme anywhere.
burger machine across pgh! ...saved us from starvation during duty nights. their cheeseburger and dessert even made it to the society page of the broadsheets.

our budgets may have been small, but our tummies were in gastronomic heaven!

as an aside, there's this hole in the wall in hongkong, serving the plainest roast duck and rice at a good price. we kept going back whenever we were there, ordering via sign language. one even bought a couple of (cooked) ducks and brought it home.