Diabetic or Dieting?

• Almost all hotels in the world, even the most expensive ones, are run by chefs who don’t care about your health or even the taste of the food, because in a year or two they’ll be working somewhere else. Plantation Bay does care, because more than most hotels we rely on repeat business from all over the world. Our culinary management team has been in place for twenty years, and isn’t going anywhere.
• Where possible Plantation Bay makes its ingredients IN HOUSE, instead of packaged foods like most hotels. What’s wrong with packaged foods? Most contain chemicals and preservatives, un-natural high-glycemic substances like maltodextrin and High-Fructose Corn Syrup, and loads of other carbohydrates. Our mayonnaise, hamburger patties, all breads and pastries, breakfast sausage, hummus, salsa, ice creams – are all home-made, with no weird ingredients and as many calories saved as we can manage, while still preserving good flavor.
• All fast-food restaurants, and (we would bet) 99.9% of the hotels in the world, use SEED OILS for frying because they are cheap. Seed oils include sunflower, soy, canola, corn, etc., and they are all ULTRA-HIGH PROCESSED. Furthermore, after one or two frying uses, they start turning into TRANS-FATS, which as we all know are killers. Yet in most places the seed oils are used 20-30 times! At Plantation Bay, we use exclusively Natural Coconut Oil, which is increasingly recognized as the healthiest oil for everyday use, and we are alert to change it before it degrades.
• Cut all the carbs and 90% of the calories! Shirataki Rice is offered in all our restaurants. Prepared with flair and imagination, Shirataki makes an excellent garlic fried rice substitute (come taste ours, and we’ll share our secret), and a quite passable alternative for pasta (if your sauce is as good as ours). It’s not so good as a stand-alone replacement for steamed rice, but we can serve you that, too.
• Cut out all the sugar! We have a line of drinks and desserts sweetened with Allulose, the perfect sugar substitute since it is a naturally-occurring sugar, but with just 10% the calories and hardly any glycemic effect.
• All regular rice in Plantation Bay is twice-cooked, once frozen, to create Resistant Starch, lessening the effective calories and providing prebiotic food for your gut.
• Our Healthy Meals in Kilimanjaro Kafe (and similar dishes in the other outlets) will satisfy your hunger without spiking insulin or costing much by way of calories.
• In lieu of fries as a side, in all restaurants you can request Garlic Spinach instead. (But have a few of our fries anyway — experienced travelers rate them highly, and at 6-8 calories apiece, they’re not so bad. Just swipe some from your children.)
• To help you feel full and improve your digestion, our Fruity Fibrous Finish is available in all restaurants, and some of our drinks are spiked with chia seeds and/or inulin (a soluble fiber derived from chicory). We now also offer The Only Smoothie You’ll Ever Need, which is made with pureed banana, Kefir (a much better probiotic than yogurt), and a combination of soluble and insoluble fiber. On a scale of 1 to 10, it’s only a 7 in taste, but a great addition to any diet.
• Plantation Bay is developing an 8-day Weight Management All-Inclusive Package. Please fill out the simple form on the link below, and we’ll email you when it’s available (expected January 2026).

Plantation Bay has the best restaurants in the Philippines, probably the best in Asia, and possibly the best in the world for Vegans, Diabetics, and Dieters

Almost all restaurants and hotels simply ignore diabetics and dieters; you are NOBODY to them. And if you’re Vegan, they might have just one or two dishes to mollify you (but they taste terrible).

Tired of “healthy” restaurants with dishes so tasteless, they’re not worth the trouble of eating out. (And your friends won’t join you anyway?) Plantation Bay’s four restaurants all serve some Vegan, Vegetarian, almost-Vegetarian, low-calorie, and low-glycemic index dishes. But unlike “healthy” restaurants we also try hard to make the food delicious, while keeping up with the latest science on food ingredients as they relate to diabetics and dieters.

Vegans!

• Kilimanjaro Kafe has an entire section, Healthy Meals, with 7 delicious Vegan options such as Spicy Deep-Fried (in coconut oil) Tofu, Grilled Mixed Vegetables with Pesto, and Indian Dal.
• Fiji restaurant has Vegetable Masala, Samosas, Seared Broccoli with Nuts and Dates, and more.
• Palermo offers Roasted Sweet Peppers, Marcona Almonds, Pasta Puttanesca (advise server to omit the anchovy), Pasta Primavera, two Vegan salads, and Shirataki Garlic Rice. (Our pastas are made with egg yolk; if that doesn’t work for you, order your Italian pastas with Shirataki rice as substitute. With our expertly-made Vegan sauce choices, you’ll hardly taste any difference!)
• Even our American Diner, Route 66, has Chopped Spinach with Garlic, Kimchi, and Home-Made French Fries.
• Four of our home-made ice creams are not only dairy-free (made from coconut milk), but also sugar-free (sweetened with Allulose), and just as delicious as our regular home-made ice creams made with full cream. Our ice cream also has egg yolk.

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