Unmindful of the global recession, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her large entourage from the Philippines ran up a $20,000 (P1 million) dinner tab at Le Cirque, a world-famous French restaurant in New York, reports The New York Post in its Page Six section on August 7. The hefty bill included several bottles of expensive wine.
The New York Post also mentioned that Arroyo’s former comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Carlos Garcia, was found guilty earlier this year of perjury for misdeclaration of his assets and liabilities in 2000. His two sons Juan Paulo and Ian Carl were arrested in the US for smuggling $100,000. His other son Tim Mark Garcia, recently appointed head of public relations for Marc Jacobs, also faces extradition charges in the Philippines.
Garcia, his wife and three sons have been charged with plunder, for allegedly illegally amassing more than P300 million during the former General’s active military service, reports the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement website.
Photo from www.lecirque.com.
Here’s the “theoretical breakdown of the bill” based on Le Cirque’s menu and wine list as posted by Manuel Quezon III in his blog quezon.ph:
Grabe na. Did she also say to her countrymen, “Let them eat cake!”?
Thing is they didn’t really enjoyed what they ate. After dinner, FG was craving for Lechon kawali, kanin and Mang Tomas.
I’m going to strangle that dwende!
susmaryosep!!!
Patay Gutom!!!
1 million pesos is the annual food budget at the Pangarap Shelter for Street Children which feed about 100+ children x 3 meals per day, which Gloria manage to blow away easily in just one evening.
Little wonder she’s no in a hurry to come home.
Can you believe NGO’s like the Pangarap Shelter are taxed heavily by the government? And the tax that is supposed to be enjoyed by the children, they blow it out on a Php 1M gourmet dinner? Shame on you Gloria.
I hope they choke on the foie gras. In fairness, this is a nice food story. Special feature on gluttony and corruption.
well the end will justify the means….she and the people who are plundering money from the filipino people are all going to DIE with their eyes OPEN…….
a very big shame to the Philippines and the Filipino people specially the Overseas Filipinos who are working their asses for their families and themselves….they send money to the Philippines and are even robbed by way of exchange rates.
baka yan ang ginagamit ng mga demonyo para sumalo sila kay satanas tuwing nag papakaligaya sila. GAHAMAN is the term with 20,000 USD how many hungry mouths of childred or families can be fed in the Philippines? SHAME SHAME SHAME and yes no wonder i saw Miriam Defensor so Fat on TV while they were “paying” respect to Tita Cory. By the way did you all notice how they looked? Haysssss mga kampon ni Satas - for english readers - this means they are the people or satan.
oh i forgot to say that this menu can be duplicated in the Philippines and can be labelled as THE FILIPINO MONEYS MENU - the exact Menus the Gluttons ate in NEW YORK bwahahahahahahaha what a shame? Itapon niyo na ang mga basura sa 2010 DO NOT VOTE FOR ANYONE ANOINTED BY THE GRELIN!
‘GUTOM’ talaga