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The food next door, brought to your door.

South Eats Asia is a hyperlocal delivery app for the towns the giants forgot. We start in Moalboal, Cebu -- one small dive town, every restaurant on it, a local courier fleet that's paid like adults. Then we do it again, town by town.

GCash Maya Cash on delivery English · Filipino · Cebuano Search by photo
Search

Search like you actually look for food.

Type what you're craving in plain English (or Cebuano, or Filipino). Or snap a photo of something you saw on Instagram and we'll find the closest match on a menu near you. Both work because every dish gets embedded the moment it's added.

Type what you mean. Not what's on the label.

"Spicy noodle soup" returns laksa, mami, and sinampalukan -- even if no menu uses the word "spicy." Semantic search trained on how people actually order.

Powered by text vectors

Saw it on the beach. Find it on a menu.

Snap or upload a photo. We match it visually against every dish photo from every restaurant in town. Great for tourists who don't know the dish name yet.

Powered by visual data
Payments

Pay how you actually pay here.

E-wallets work great when you have one. Cash works great when you don't. We do both -- so locals can use what's in their phone, and tourists can pay at the door if their card isn't supported yet.

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GCash

Most-used e-wallet in the Philippines. Tap, scan, paid -- before the bike's even turned around.

Live at launch
M

Maya

Second pillar of PH digital payments. Same checkout flow, your wallet of choice.

Live at launch
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Cash on delivery

Pay the courier at the door. Order is locked with an OTP that you read out loud -- no funny business, no skipping.

Tourist-friendly

Foreign cards aren't in v1 -- yet. So if your Visa is from somewhere we can't take, just pay cash at the door. Bring pesos, eat well, sort the rest later.

Cards on the roadmap
Popular Mild heat GF Halal-friendly

Liempo, charred, with garlic rice

300g boneless pork belly, marinated overnight, charred over hardwood. Carved to order.

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For locals AND tourists

English by default. Translations on tap.

The customer app speaks Cebuano, Filipino, and English. Menus are photo-first for the times you don't know the word yet. Allergens and dietary tags are prominent because "is this fine for my kid" should be a glance, not a guess.

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Photo menus, allergen tags, no jargon.

Every dish has a real photo. "Vegan", "gluten-free", "halal-friendly", "spicy" -- one glance, no Wikipedia tab.

B

"Notes for the driver", clearly labeled.

Where the resort gate is, which barangay road has the pothole, who to ask for at the desk. Not a place to add fries.

C

A curated resort list for tourist pickers.

If you're staying at a known resort in Moalboal, pick it from a list -- no plus codes, no map fight, no "near the second coconut tree."

D

No Google sign-in. No Google maps. No tracking.

By design. We use MapLibre and don't need your Google identity to feed you. Privacy isn't a settings toggle here -- it's the default.

The fleet

Local couriers. Treated like adults.

We run our own fleet -- KYC verified, fair per-trip cut, weekly e-wallet payouts. Earnings are trip-based (this is honest gig work, not salaried), but the cut is set up front and we don't run surge games or quietly drift it down. We don't ask for OR/CR either, because in the Philippines that's how you accidentally exclude every honest courier with a borrowed bike.

Weekly E-wallet payouts. No two-week wait, no chasing.
Per trip Cut is set up front. No surge punishment, no quiet drift.
5 docs ID, license, vehicle photo, selfie liveness, optional barangay clearance. That's it.
A courier's view of a tropical road Verified courier · Moalboal
Roadmap

One town done right. Then the next one.

Every expansion city is a new local launch -- not a map fill. The plan is small on purpose.

v1 · 2026 Moalboal Cebu's southwest dive coast. Single town. Cebuano + English + Filipino. Own couriers. Cash + GCash + Maya.
v1.1 · 2026 Dumaguete Negros Oriental, ferry-adjacent. Same language profile, reuses the Moalboal playbook.
v1.2 · later Cebu City The hardest market -- GrabFood-saturated. Won by riding brand love, not feature parity.
v2+ · eventually SEA Indonesia, Vietnam, beyond. URL + data already country-scoped from day one.
Get involved

Three doors. One to walk through.

Whether you eat, you cook, or you ride -- there's a spot for you in v1. Drop us a line and we'll loop you in as we open Moalboal.