Seasons at Manila Pavilion Hotel Buffet Actual

Now that we have roamed around and saw what the buffet at Seasons, Manila Pavilion Hotel can offer, it’s time to settle down and eat.

To start off, we have soup to warm our stomach.

…then we move on to have some sushi and finger food appetizers such the literal ham and cheese and some kebabs…

I saw a section of different dishes and I got one of each. (Grilled Salmon, Steamed Fish Fillet, Chicken, Beef and Sausage). Special mention here to their Grilled Salmon as they were able to remove that “salmon” smell. The beef was also tasty!

Now, going to China Town, I got roasted chicken, asado and a few dumplings. I enjoyed all except the asado which left a bad taste in my mouth.

I’m still sad that we didn’t have any roast beef so we had to settle with their pork loin with the special reappearance of siomai and calzone.

As for the area where you can ask them to cook (paluto) for you, I requested for grilled liempo (that looks more like pork chop) and fried lapu-lapu. I had to return a lot just to follow-up on the fish and when I got it, it was very salty. On the other hand, the liempo tasted great without the need for condiments.

For desserts, I loaded myself with lots of fruits (that induces movement), a taste of their dessert creations and their crepe. The crepe tasted more of pancakes due to the thickness of the crepe.

Overall, the buffet was ok as we did have a lot of selections from different cuisines. But somehow, without any roast beef, it felt lacking and seeing that they had more selections on others also affected our experience. But for the voucher price, I can say that the buffet at Seasons was already  a good deal.

Till next time,

Allen

Location:

Seasons, Manila Pavilion Hotel

United Nations Avenue cor. Ma. Orosa Street, Manila

(02) 526-1212 with extension line: 2318

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Seasons at Manila Pavilion Hotel Buffet Selections

Thanks to Ensogo; we were able to try out this deal.

Travel the world through food with an international buffet lunch or dinner for 1 at Seasons, Manila Pavilion Hotel (Valued at P1600)

Whenever I see a buffet on a group buying site, I have the sudden urge to buy it as it would be a great deal and so far, our buffet groupons have been a great buy. Let’s see how seasons at the Manila Pavillion would fare. When we arrived at Seasons, Manila Pavilion, the buffet hasn’t opened yet so we were just waiting outside and while waiting, I learned that they have different buffets depending on the day but I’m not sure if that would be covered by the voucher or not.

As we went inside, I roamed around to see what they have to offer. Each table has several dishes and I’ll try my best to remember what they had as going around in a buffet with an empty stomach was torture.

In the innermost part that’s already connected to the wall, you would see the cooking station where you can pick among chicken, pork and fish and have them fried or grilled. Tempura is available here but they just use shrimps and not prawns. For their meat carving section, we were offered pork loin (aww no roast beef or lamb?). Aside from that, you can also request for pizza, pasta, calzone and tacos in this area. Now let’s move to the next table.

In the next big table, we had more choices on appetizers. They had different kinds of cheese, bread and salad on one side and sashimi and maki choices on the other side. On another corner would be the roast section where you can have roasted chicken, asado pork and pair it with dim sum choices and create-your-own-noodles.

As for the last big table, we have the desserts where you can have your fill of fruits, cakes and sweets, kakanin, crepes and donuts. I like staying in this area because I’m amazed at the artwork (see watermelon art). They simply looked too good to eat.

While writing this post, I checked out the other blogs and I found some dishes that weren’t available to us like roast beef and leg of lamb! No lechon too and there was only Tuna Sashimi. The only explanation I can think about now is that Seasons have a different menu on weekdays (us) vs. weekends (a blogger I asked).

Ignoring my previous statement, I can say that we were satisfied with our buffet at Seasons. The voucher price was just right and we were very full. I just want to mention that they do not put any labels on their dishes so leave it to your eyes and tongue to guess what you are eating. They do say that instead of names, they placed a picture of the animal that the dish came from but I didn’t notice that at all.

Don’t go just yet, I would still write about what we actually ate here in the next post.

Till next time,

Allen

Location:

Seasons, Manila Pavilion Hotel

United Nations Avenue cor. Ma. Orosa Street, Manila

(02) 526-1212 with extension line: 2318

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Tokyo Café Dinner

My Tokyo Café gift certificate was expiring and I needed a good place to eat so I brought Jessa to the nearest Tokyo Café location I can find, Go Hotels in Mandaluyong. If you are unfamiliar with Tokyo Café, well, the first thing that comes into mind would be crepes. The first time I dined at Tokyo Café was in their Mall of Asia branch and if you are a crepe lover, you would be sucked in the moment you come near their entrance. Besides their entrance would be a huge selection of crepes just waiting for you to order them.

So going back to Go Hotels… just a minor thing here, they wouldn’t allow you to use their elevator if you will not be staying at Go Hotels. They would make you walk outside then find your way to Tokyo Café and other restaurants. Well, cardio anyone? Anyway, let’s go with our orders.

Tokyo Café Demi Hamburg – PHP 188

Hamburg steak in demi glace sauce

I hate to say this but this tasted very similar to Jollibee’s burger steak.

Tokyo Café Seafood Pizza – PHP 288

Shrimp, Squid, kani Sticks, onions and Mozzarella topped with Japanese Mayonnaise

Thin-crust yum yum! I can really feel the seafood-ness of the pizza and they were very generous with the cheese. It wasn’t very oily and I was eating it like there’s no tomorrow. On this day, I learned how to fold the pizza to make it into a pizza sandwich but the disadvantage was I ran out of pizza to eat at a much faster rate.

Tokyo Café Peach Mango Caramel – PHP 130

A great way to end the meal. Their crepes never disappoint.

Till next time,

Allen

Location:

Tokyo Café, Mandaluyong
Go Hotels, EDSA Boni Ave. cor. Aglipay, Brgy. Buayang Bato
Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila
Philippines
(02) 477-3844

[Vendors Needed] The Venetian Market at Venice Piazza

There’s an upcoming food bazaar that will be held late May to August and the theme would be European. It will be located at Venice Piazza, McKinley Hill and they are in need of food maker and sellers who specialize in the following.

If you are interested, please contact Samantha Buendia. She can be reached at 709-1111 loc.113 and samantha@megaworld-commercial.com.

I’ll post more details about this event soon.

(Pic from their facebook page)

BPI Promo: Get Free Meals from Pizza Hut or Dairy Queen or Taco Bell February 2012

Status: Ongoing

Get FREE Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, or Dairy Queen when you use your BPI Express Credit ANYWHERE for minimum single receipts of P2,000, P6,000 and P12,000.

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Promo period is from April 18 to July 15, 2012.

Redemption period is until September 13, 2012.

Here is what you can redeem from Pizza Hut

Pizza Flavors: Supreme, Hawaiian Supreme, Bacon Supreme, Bacon Cheeseburger Supreme, Veggie Lovers Supreme

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Here is what you can redeem from Dairy Queen

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Here is what you can redeem from Taco Bell

Note: ** Affordabells: Choice of Crunchy Taco, Nachos, ¼ lb Beef Combo Burrito, Fun Size Cheese Quesadilla, Caesar Nacho Salad, Crispy Potato Soft Taco, Cheese Roll Up, Pork BBQ Burrito, Beef Taquito

Till next time,

Allen

BPI Promo: Get Free Meals from Pizza Hut or Dairy Queen or Taco Bell February 2012

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Supreme Brazo Bars by Ces Lopez

Thanks to Metrodeal; we were able to try this deal.

50% Off: P99 instead of P200 for a Box of 4 Assorted Heavenly Brazo de Mercedes Bars at Supreme Brazo Bars

Jessa bought this for me knowing that I’m a big fan of Brazo De Mercedes. I haven’t heard of these but after doing some research, I found out the the Supreme Brazo Bars by Ces Lopez has gotten a lot of praises from other food bloggers so that made me excited to try it out.

Yum Yum! is what I can say for my first bite. It looks like a sandwich where the custard filling is in between two meringue layers. It is also shaped like a loaf so I guess their inspiration was bread for the shape? I can’t help comparing it to the Mini Brazo De Mercedes by Joy (@Parvati) that I have also tried. The taste, sweetness and texture was very similar. However, the custard filling that would set it apart because it had different flavors on it.

So far in the two boxes I have ate, I noticed macapuno and different kinds of nuts (based on crunchiness). It was certainly something new for me as I was used to having it melt in my mouth while I squirm in the air like Scooby Doo after eating a Scooby snack. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed every piece of it! I wonder how do they differentiate between flavors? Here’s the complete list (from OAP).

• Classic
• Copaco-Mango
• Strawberry Sunrise
• Toasted Coconut Kiss
• Aloha Banana
• Tropical Cashew Crunch
• Macapuno Summer Breeze
• Walnut Wander
• Almond Shindig
• Pistachio Festival
• Pecan Beach Party
• Heavenly Hazelnut
• Hula Macadamia!

Till next time,

Allen

Location:

Supreme Brazo Bars

U29 Galleria 14th St New Manila Quezon City

Ground Floor Entertainment Mall SM Mall of Asia Pasay City (Effective March 15, 2012)

Phone: 0915-3528372

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Pat-Pat’s Kansi

Pat-Pat’s Kansi has been on my list of restaurants to try out after hearing that they have bulalo and they are near my place. The bulalo they serve is a bit different due to the taste of the soup which is sour. Think of it as bulalo ingredients in a sinigang soup, two of my favorite soups in one dish.

They offer two kinds of bulalo, the one with the bone (Php145) and all meat (PHP135) version. Since this was my first time here, I opted for the one with the bone to complete the experience. After we ordered, we were given the utensils with a stick and a knife which will be used to dig into the bone to get the bone marrow.

Pat-Pat’s Kansi Bulalo – PHP145

When this was placed on our table, I was very amazed and excited of the size of the bone and the amount of unhealthy goodness it contains. It has a few chunks of meat in the soup and lots of ligaments hanging on the bone but the main part would be the bone marrow inside the bone waiting to be harvested.

What I did was to mix the bone marrow with soup and my rice and in a few seconds later, I was requesting for extra rice. I didn’t realize that I ate that fast till I checked my plate.

Boneless Bangus – PHP180

We underestimated their bulalo so we ordered this dish as an alternative. It turns out that we didn’t need this one and had to take it out.

I would definitely return here for more bulalo goodness but I’ll opt for the all meat version next as I already had my fill of bone marrow (got a headache about eating).

Till next time,

Allen

Location:

Pat-Pat’s Kansi, Kamagong
Kamagong cor. Sampaloc St. San Antonio Vill.
Makati, Metro Manila
Philippines
(02) 890-6179

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Shinjuku Ramen House Restaurant

After trying out a Korean Restaurant (Min Sok) before, I suggested that our family dine in a Japanese Restaurant this time. Since this was just a spur of a moment decision while already travelling, I wasn’t able to do any research so we just went to Little Tokyo along Pasong Tamo and pointed at the first restaurant we saw, Shinjuku Ramen House.

Shinjuku Japanese Cuisine Beef Curry Rice – PHP 380

Very few beef chunks hidden in a hot curry sauce.

Shinjuku Japanese Cuisine Chukadon – PHP 275

This one was like chop-suey.

Shinjuku Japanese Cuisine Beef Ramen – PHP 275

Their beef ramen tastes different from the regular beef mami you can eat outside. It has more flavor to it.

Shinjuku Japanese Cuisine Ebishitake – PHP 345

I wondered what “heavy soup” meant when I saw this in the menu. The soup was viscous but flavor-wise, it was ok for me.

Shinjuku Japanese Cuisine Tentojidon – PHP 270

We were expecting to enjoy a tempura rice topping but it only contained one (1) tempura and the rest was eggs. It was disappointing because the tempura was the reason why this dish was ordered.

Shinjuku Japanese Cuisine Pannacotta

The ramen was good in Shinjuku (well, they have to be since it’s a ramen shop) but their other dishes lacked in servings badly. We weren’t able to order their gyoza because I was hesitant on the price/servings however, that might have been a loss because it is one of their best sellers (so I have read). In case we come back here the next time, we would just order ramen and avoid their other dishes.

Till next time,

Allen

Location:

Shinjuku Ramen House, Pasong Tamo
2277 Chino Roces Ave.
Makati City, Metro Manila
Philippines
(02) 819-1242

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Yoshinoya Group Plates

Yoshinoya’s group plate C (tempura with beef). With their php10 per cup miso soup promo and an order of siomai.

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