Sambo Kojin: Gluttony at its finest

Sambo Kojin EDSA: Grill all you can, Eat all you can

Amidst all the diets & healthy living, there are times when you have to indulge yourself to gluttony.  On a special occasion like birthday, it's understandable to fill your heart's stomach's content on extravagant foodies such as "eat-all-you-can" restaurants.  I found a place where you can satisfy your gluttony without sacrificing your wallet.  

Sambo Kojin.  Situated along the long highway of EDSA, in between Ortigas & Santolan MRT station.  I decided to celebrate my birthday there together with my fiance.  We arrived at around 4:30pm.  Since it's too early, we are the first customers to arrive. But we are 7th or 8th customer in the reservation list.  From 4:30-5:30pm, their phone is already working overtime from non-stop reservations.  Whew, good thing we arrive early! 

At around 5:40pm, they let us in.  I'm the first customer who entered the restaurant. Yay..lol.

So, first I'll give you a little tour inside the resto. Here's what you will see when you first enter the room. (R-L) Right: A wide array of fresh & flavored seafoods & meats inside the freezers to maintain the quality of foods. This is better than other eat-all-you can restaurants where food are on the containers or plates. Left: Soup and cooked asian dishes section. A little farther on the left are korean stuffs like kimchi (sorry, I forgot the other food's names)

Where food are located. The restaurant is clean and has good ambiance.

When we arrived at our table, here's what you'll see. (picture on the right) Different sauces & spices for the grilling part. Soon after we were seated, a waiter gave us appetizers? (picture on the left) I only ate the anchovies.

Appetizers and Yakiniku sauces

Then soon after we ordered our drinks, the waiter offered the Kamameshi rice.  We ordered but regretted it later since it's so heavy in the stomach.

Kamameshi rice. A japanese fried rice with so many stuffs included.

And so, without further ado, my bf and I went to fill our plates. Our first batch are the different types of sushi and our fave salmon sashimi.

Tasty sushi and sashimi

Second batch are the stuffs-to-be-grilled.  I so loved the wrapped bacon with cheesy stuff inside.  I shall not post the other grill batch. It's quite shameful to show our gluttony. hohoho~

Seafood and meat Yakiniku

Anyway, here's our other stuffs.  These are Korean foods.

Korean delicacies

Last batch, the sweet deserts. I love the ice cream and mini cheese cake period. Haha.

Desserts. I only liked the ice cream and mini cheese cake

Verdict: 100% Passed. Highly recommended. It was such a gluttony experience! We will definitely come back again. The ambiance, food & service are worth even more than what you've paid for. 

TCGB!

Tokyo Cafe, SM Mall Of Asia

     As I was browsing through my files, I saw my compilation of food resto pics that I was supposed to blog months ago. But because of our series of events and my laziness, I wasn't able to do so. "Better late than never" as what they say, so here I am, blogging it. First stop is Tokyo Cafe.

     The pics are still on their raw form, so I could tell the date I took them. This was taken on February 2011.

      So, basically we search the mall to try a new restaurant with a mango crepe, because my bf wanted it but didn't like to eat at our usual French Baker.  When we entered the South wing entrance of SM Mall of Asia main building, I saw Tokyo Cafe. Quite intrigue with the plastic version of their dishes by the window.  We checked their menu at the entrance for a mango crepe.  Good thing they had. We waited a little because they are full. After a while, the waitress ushered us to our table. Though, there are lots of people at that time, the ambiance of the restaurant is still quite cozy. 

     At first, I had the impression that they offer only Japanese cuisine. A modern Japanese cuisine to be exact, because of the name "Tokyo Cafe".  When I scanned through their menu, they have a fusion of American and Japanese cuisine. Check it at their site: http://tokyocafe.com.ph/ .

     Our orders for our afternoon snack:

Creamy Ebiko pasta Php258

Garlic and Shrimp pasta Php245

Manila Mango Php115

      We both love pasta. Mine is Creamy Ebiko pasta. I love the creaminess of it. At a closer range, you could see the karashi ebiko (shrimp eggs) in the cream sauce. The luscious softness of the ebiko (shrimp) is perfect. This dish is like the fusion of carbonara & Pizza Hut's seafood supreme pasta.

      I tasted about 1-2 forkful of my bf's Garlic and Shrimp pasta.  My excuse: "I couldn't give a review of the dish without tasting it." ~hohohoho.  Anyway, this kind of pasta is more of the "pancit" type. Why? Because it's not saucy but very tasty.  Plus, I think it was cooked in olive oil. The shrimp is same with my dish. Delectable. I could also taste the herbs and spices.

     I'm not a fan of cold crepes (I'm more of the hot types ^o^).  But I still eat it once in a while.  Again, I took 2-3 spoonful of this dessert, for the same reason a while ago. He he. I think I prefer French Baker's version.  As you can see, it consist of mango slices, mango ice cream, whipped cream, chocolate syrup and crepe.  Nothing much to say but sweet.  I would have liked it, if they use vanilla ice cream instead of mango flavor.

     If only we didn't had a heavy lunch then I would have ordered another dish or so.  I would like to try their smoogees next time.

TCGB!