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| - I had dinner here last weekend with friends and shared a couple of dishes. We started the meal with delicious, crispy calamares then went on to nilagang baka (boiled beef and veggies), sisig (a spicy pork dish), relyenong talong (roasted eggplant covered with ground pork and scrambled egg), and fried chicken. The portions were generous, the dishes were good, and with rice it turned out to be too much food for the three of us, meaning we had some pretty good food to take home. It was Saturday night, so there was also Latin Dance instruction being given on the dance floor at the end of the restaurant, with several people enthusiastically trying out the steps being taught.
I came back today to try the lunch buffet with fellow yelpers Rand H. and Mike C. The restaurant decided to venture into offering a lunch buffet option only recently, so I guess they are still feeling their way around in this field. The selection of viands was limited (especially if you're used to going to Chinese buffets). I liked the dinuguan (pork stewed in pork blood; this could be a bit daunting for the uninitiated), the lechon kawali (deep fried pork belly), the tapa (thinly sliced beef fried in garlic), the ampalaya (bittermelon with beef) and the kinilaw (the Filipino version of ceviche). Some of the dishes could have used some tweaking: the lumpia (spring rolls) could have been a bit more crisp, and the pancit noodles had an overcooked texture.
Come for the regular menu for lunch and dinner. The buffet also offers authentic Filipino dishes and will hopefully incorporate the needed tweaks in some dishes as they get more accustomed to offering this option. Four stars for the regular menu, three stars for the lunch buffet at this point.
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