Football Coach, Humingi ng Tawad: Hindi Kikiam Yun, Kundi Sausage

Quite a number of apologies have come up these past few days since the media reported the shortcomings of Philippine SE Asian Games Organizing Committee that resulted to failure to host the SEA Games. One apology came from Philippine Daily Inquirer for committing an erratum. Another is, the football coach of the PH team, who told the public that the hotel served Kikiam (a mediocre street food in the Philippines) to the athletes.

After White House Hotel discovered this 'Kikiam' brouhahas, the President sent a letter to the head of the Philippine team to explain their side of the story. The letter said that the 'Kikiam' issue was not true at all. The food audit team of the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (PHISGOC), inspected the kitchen before and after breakfast were being served. They concluded that there were no Kikiam being served on that particular breakfast meal.

According to the letter, coach Let Dimzon, was not present at the breakfast table at the time of the meal. Another thing was, the hotel did not or had never served Kikiam because it was/is not included in their menu. Lucky there was one omelet station that served omelet for free to include it to their meal.

The letter said: "This coach admitted that she was not present during the breakfast buffet. She saw the chicken sausage in a plastic container (which is not a hotel container, as we do not use plastic for packed meals) and assumed that this was the full breakfast offering."

Here is the letter:

Reports said that after reading this letter from the management of White House Hotel, coach Dimzon apologized quite a number of times to the hotel management.

{News source}