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During the last Spot.Ph Bloggers Food Tour, I was curious why they invited bloggers to this Food Tour. I want to know the purpose of the tour. Most of all, I was curious about spot.ph

I asked the marshall of our group for the Serendra/Bonifacio High Street restaurants. From what I gathered, spot.ph is user generated content where one makes reviews of restaurants and other places. Then I added, “but bloggers already write reviews in their respective blogs. What makes spot.ph different?”

Oh my, the marshall’s answer annoyed me. She said something along the lines that “bloggers are not fair…” and spot.ph will be a better site for reviews than blogs. I said “excuse me? I am a blogger and I don’t know many bloggers who just rant and rant about a restaurant”. Oh but she refused to listen to me and started telling me about this blogger who kept complaining about the food. I left the marshall because I could not stand her low opinion on bloggers.

What a snobbish reply!

Why did they invite bloggers to their event in the first place? To move over to spot.ph?

Fortunately, I got to talk to the friendly Karen who explained that spot.ph is not out to replace food blogs because the latter is not credible. Karen saved the day by being such a gracious host and for explaining Spot.ph purpose:

SPOT is your brand new online city guide with content provided by its very own users. City-living need not be a drag (even during the summer). In fact, it could be more interesting. Find the coolest places to eat, chill, dine, and play all in one website. Sound off, share with friends and spread the word on places you know and go to- all by just posting a review.

Next time, event organizers invite bloggers, make sure your staff does not generalize bloggers into one classification of “ranting types”.

I still was not clear on the purpose of the tour.

First of all, how can one write a fair review when these restaurants probably showed off the best of their culinary dishes.

Second, sampling over twenty restaurants in four hours will not offer us accurate review due to food overload and taste fatigue.

At best, it was a food trip but an accurate review? it’s not possible.