Had dinner at Yaki Mix SM Mall of Asia last night with a friend. The food was not so great but it was not bad either -BUT for a P500 Japanese/shabu-shabu buffet, it was a quite a delish (as Jamie Oliver would put it) bargain! If you're after quantity and value for money vs. quality, then you can consider Yaki MIx food heaven.
There is a spread of what i prefer to call "pop" makis - tuna salad maki, spicy tuna maki, tempura maki, etc. which are cheap versions of the real makis but the surprisingly fresh salmon sashimi save the maki spread, even if the wasabi is stale and has lost its kick.
There is also a salad station and a soup station. The soup station offers not so hot and sour soup, fish lip soup sans the fish lip and a do-it-yourself sukiyaki soup which I did no try. Yoko kaya mabusog sa soup.
The cooked dishes were filling. The one that made it for me was the cuttlefish with celery. It's a favorite but am still wondering if its real or imitation cuttlefish. I think its imitation but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
The raw food for the grill were better than Tong Yang's - not as many choices but the quality is good and includes the ones that matter, at least to me. There are shrimps, salmon, beef, bacon, mushrooms and some stuff that I am not really interested to grill and eat.
Finally, there is a desserts station - macaroon, assorted mini cupcakes, chocolate cake (moist and really choclatey!), assorted really fresh fruits (missed the dragon fruit though), Vanilla ice cream! May ibang flavors din yung ice cream.
Free jasmine tea and "house water" (may ganon?) and P65 for bottomless soda.
Yaki Mix also claims to be a smokeless grill. And it was! They have a special fan under the table sucking the smoke out of the grill. Genius!
I am not a fan of shabu-shabu because you have to cook your food on a grill and on a pot on the spot leaving spots on your cooking hand and arm, you have to finish the very hot off the grill meat, seafood and vegetables or leave them to get cold on my plate or get overcooked on the grill, and most annoyingly, you always leave the restaurant smelling like the kitchen. Even if you don't cook, smoke from the other tables will permeate your clothing, hair (which I fortunately don't have), your skin, wallet shoes and even your underwear (you do have to go to the john at one point during the lengthy meal).
At Yaki Mix, you still get a hint of that smoky kitchen smell. But you also get this dining in 5 star hotels or hot Greenbelt and Bonifacio High Street restos.
So will I go back? Definitely! Even if I just stick to salmon sashimi, imitation cuttlefish, assorted mushrooms, spinach with sesame seeds, soup, grilled beef and shrimps, chocolate cake, fresh fruits and vanilla ice cream.
At P500 at eat-all-you-can, san ka pa!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Meeting Giselle Sanchez and Mr. Tongkat Ali
It was my first time to attend a bloggers event as guest - and an uninvited one at that. Not because I wanted free dinner (defensive!) but I was asked by my co-worker, the legit guest, to accompany her.
We had no idea what the event is about except that Giselle Sanchez, umm , err THE Giselle Sanchez will be there. Turns out the event was organized by Enduranz, the food supplement for "endurance" endorsed by Giselle and husband Emil Buencamino (no, he did not change his bachelor name to Sanchez), now popularly know as Mr. Tonkat Ali. Not because he converted to Islam but because he and Giselle swears by it "powers".
I was not really aroused when I figured that this was an Enduranz event. I already have a very good idea of what Enduranz is - a cheap, local version of Viagra. But surprisingly, the evening turned out to be an eye opener. I found out that night that there is a site called Manila Tonight - a bastos site oddly represented by a "mommy blogger". I was also introduced to anthroposophy, cherubs and spirits guides courtesy of Giselle and another blogger who is into organic farming and is working for an NGO.
The biggest surprise that night is that Enduranz seems surprised that they are selling like hotcakes because consumers think that they are a cheaper Viagra alternative when in fact they are a male fertility-boosting supplement with Giselle, Emil and their new baby boy as proof!
Maybe I was just too dense to get the message of their TV commercial or was just not interested as I have absolutely no need for performance-enhancing products! Nor am I looking forward to having (and making) babies in the near and not-so-near future
But this is good news to those who have been trying to have kids without positive results. I also, learned during the discussion that usually, the first ones to get tested for "defects" were the women, when more often, it is the sperm count (should be about 60 million) and sperm virility that is the culprit. And that testing the sperm is a whole lot cheaper and faster than tests performed on women.
Some factors which may contribute to declining sperm viability are stress, heat disease, diabetes, aging or all of the above plus some.
According to Enduranz, it's active ingredient - tongkat ali, helps bring back the norrnal testosterone level of men who have lost some of their spunk (and gunk) due to stress, old age, and other bad lifestyle choices.
Of course higher testosterone level is also good news for those who are trying to maintain or bring back their lost glory. Which explains why Enduranz successfully marketed it as a sexual stimulant.
Now where did I put my loot bag...
We had no idea what the event is about except that Giselle Sanchez, umm , err THE Giselle Sanchez will be there. Turns out the event was organized by Enduranz, the food supplement for "endurance" endorsed by Giselle and husband Emil Buencamino (no, he did not change his bachelor name to Sanchez), now popularly know as Mr. Tonkat Ali. Not because he converted to Islam but because he and Giselle swears by it "powers".
I was not really aroused when I figured that this was an Enduranz event. I already have a very good idea of what Enduranz is - a cheap, local version of Viagra. But surprisingly, the evening turned out to be an eye opener. I found out that night that there is a site called Manila Tonight - a bastos site oddly represented by a "mommy blogger". I was also introduced to anthroposophy, cherubs and spirits guides courtesy of Giselle and another blogger who is into organic farming and is working for an NGO.
The biggest surprise that night is that Enduranz seems surprised that they are selling like hotcakes because consumers think that they are a cheaper Viagra alternative when in fact they are a male fertility-boosting supplement with Giselle, Emil and their new baby boy as proof!
Maybe I was just too dense to get the message of their TV commercial or was just not interested as I have absolutely no need for performance-enhancing products! Nor am I looking forward to having (and making) babies in the near and not-so-near future
But this is good news to those who have been trying to have kids without positive results. I also, learned during the discussion that usually, the first ones to get tested for "defects" were the women, when more often, it is the sperm count (should be about 60 million) and sperm virility that is the culprit. And that testing the sperm is a whole lot cheaper and faster than tests performed on women.
Some factors which may contribute to declining sperm viability are stress, heat disease, diabetes, aging or all of the above plus some.
According to Enduranz, it's active ingredient - tongkat ali, helps bring back the norrnal testosterone level of men who have lost some of their spunk (and gunk) due to stress, old age, and other bad lifestyle choices.
Of course higher testosterone level is also good news for those who are trying to maintain or bring back their lost glory. Which explains why Enduranz successfully marketed it as a sexual stimulant.
Now where did I put my loot bag...
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