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| - Mmmm! This place serves some tasty kamayan feast food! We came to celebrate my aunt's birthday, and she really had a craving to try a kamayan feast. However, we didn't want to travel all the way to Toronto for Tinuno and so were delighted to find that Berto's in Mississauga serves combi platters, which are essentially very similar! We reserved a table and ordered two combi platter #1s in advance.
When we got there at 6:30pm, our platter was already ready. Unfortunately, not all members of our party were present so we had to wait until 6:50pm for the platter to be served. As such, by the time the platter was served, some of the skewers and meats had already cooled. The food came with a serving of soup for everyone, and the soup tasted interestingly like the broth you find in pho. There was an overwhelming flavour of cinnamon and cloves. I'm certain that there was a ton of MSG in the soup though, as we were all dying of thirst after.
The combi platter #1 came with a stuffed squid (filled with minced tomatoes and red onion), smoked milkfish, some pickled shredded papaya, mango salad, two skewers of chicken, two pork skewers, some roasted lechon and pork char siu, and four shrimp. I absolutely loved the squid and milkfish! The smokey flavour of the fish was very prominent, and the outside skin and extremities were delightfully crispy. The grilled shrimp was also delicious - my shrimp was grilled to the point where I was able to consume everything as it was so crispy. Overall, the food was delightful, and even better was the fried rice! The garlic flavour was very fragrant.
Berto's had made a slight mistake and thought that we had only ordered one platter for six people, and so they had to rush to prepare our second platter. As such, when the second arrived, the fish, squid, and rice were much hotter than the ones served before. As a result of the heat, the fried rice was also slightly mushier and wetter, but nevertheless just as tasty! The second squid (unpictured) was also significantly larger in size, and the second platter came with two slices of salted egg (they had missed that order in the previous platter).
The two combi platter #1s were more than enough to feed six people, and the food was surprisingly good! We will definitely come again to sample the other food - particularly the halo halo! The dessert is without doubt one of Berto's signature dishes, as almost everyone passing through the restaurant ordered one!
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