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The Unspoken Rule Against Negative Restaurant Reviews in the Philippines

There’s an unspoken rule in local restaurant reviewing: you don’t say anything overtly bad about the place, the reason for this being that the Philippines is a small country, Manila is a small city, running a restaurant is expensive, and a carelessly bad review could ruin lives and businesses.

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