Rarely Ordered | Adventurous dining or insanity? You decide.

21 Days til what?

I NEED TO KNOW!

Somebody tell me!

What I expected:

What I got:

I’m not saying that I’m pissed off at the false advertising here, but lets face it, wouldn’t you want to have that MVP quad stack near your heart?

I like that the thing is quite big, the meat was plentiful and burgerrific. It’s a bit too burgerrific. Not enough bacon and pickles to balance out the flavor. I consumed like 10 packets of ketchup before I could even finish it! For the price of P 265.00, the four patty one is worth a try. The three patty I would order if I’m hungry, two patty would be good for an in-between, the single patty for a snack.

Giving it a 4/5, worth trying but gonna not buy again soon.

Photo by RJ. Click here for some of his works.

Don’t you just have those times where you just want to buy food from two different restaurants? But you then find it awkward to bring food from another joint? Well we apparently lack the embarrassment organs so we were able to even do this:

Mcdo Barbeque sauce!~

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Dericious dericious Mojos

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With the power of Mcdo and Shakey’s combined!

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Ren here, after the ashes cleared for the end of the Christmas season. My friends decided to conspire against me and go on diets! So what does a good friend do? I conspired too, to kill, desecrate and humiliate their diets!

me with willing victim no. 1: Joanne: who bought a box of cupcakes at Serendra.

pointing to:

The not so willing victim no. 2 RJ

To kill his diet we decided to dine at Zong at the fort. To make things worse, we made RJ chose what dishes we would eat and destroy his diet with. It will now be his job to describe each delicious dish, to add to his torture.

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Still under the dilemma of where to for lunch and deciding to leave it to a coin toss Napoli’s is where we ended up.

Its a small italian restaurant located in Thomas Morato Scout rotonda. It has a white, green, red banner hard to miss.

Hungarian Sausage Spaghetti

My phone decided to be a bitch today and let the picture of the other dish get corrupted so I can’t post it. Other than having three sausages in the plate, a fact pointed out by my cousin.  Its pretty good not sweet, kinda sour which hits the spot. The size of the serving is enough for the both of us as we were both *ahem* large.

As for the sucky pictures you gotta take them as I don’t want to carry such a huge expensive camera to take good shots. I’m no Jedi hence I can’t use the force to take good pictures with an UBERLY expensive camera.

More notably they can’t fit in my pants.

Other than our usual activities of humiliating ourselves in David’s kitchen, we decided to humiliate ourselves further by coining this idea of making crazy burgers. I think the next time we try this again we shall be disowned and or be hanged in their yard.

Chocolate Burger

I know what you’re thinking right, what came to our minds to actually come up with this crap. Well this is just one of my brilliant ideas.

As expected it tastes what exactly the ingredients are burger and chocolate (We were aiming to have a chocolate center which I guess caused this). Read More…

With everyone being acquainted to chinese restaurants, some of you or perhaps all of you have tried this dish or perhaps even heard of it. But to me this dish perhaps holds a special place in my heart. For this dish I attach a huge amount of memories into it, so it was really nice when a few weeks ago a friend of mine went to a place where my memories are most vivid. Located in the corner of E. Rodriguez and Thomas Morato is the restaurant called “Big Bowl” now they have a honiker to the name by adding plus.
“To live would be to eat” I sincerely believe in this quote as most of the things that we would end up doing will be eating for the most of our lives. One of the things that both me and my late father shared is that we simply just adore this dish. So as it was a real treat when me and my friend went there out of my whims to have a little taste of memories past. Me and him would always order for this dish with my family, even though it would probably end up me and him eating most of it. Even if the dish was totally different or the place has changed my memories are still there, which I am most grateful.

And to my friend, Mr. Fiel John Meria, who joined me I know its kinda late but thank you.

Located somewhere in Thomas Morato, known to most as the prime location for really good restaurants, right beside Shakey’s is a hidden gem for Japanese cuisine fans. Offering the usual and common in Japanese cuisine they also have the chef specialties for the Makis, not your usual makis but definitely worth to give a try.

Out of the eight dishes we ate, we chose to feature 3 of the more interesting dishes. Joining us is our High School bathmate and longtime friend, Mr. Leonard Dizon from DLSU who was sick that day, so we kidnapped him and forced him to dine with us!

Seafood Dumplings

Ren: I half expected that it would have a taste of fishballs inside the dumplings but I was delightfully wrong when I took a bite of this dish. The fish still remains whole inside the entire thing, still giving a wholesome expression of the fish, along with the crunchy outside smothered with sauce to top it all off. The crunchiness with the soft sauce gave the dish an overall a very impressive taste. A 9/10. With the “God-Sauce”, well it already has but more wouldn’t hurt, a 9.5/10.

RJ: This dish was a splendid surprise for all of us. The taste of the fish was not diminished at all, giving it a powerful taste and texture. This is what fishballs should taste like! For meeting beyond my expectations, I give this a 7.5/10. The dish was already blssed with the Sauce from the Heavens, but you can’t have too much of the stuff! It jumps to 8.5/10.

Allen: I ordered this dish expecting an amalgamation of fishballs/squidballs/kikiam XD
It surprised me when I took a bite though; you can actually make out the different seafoods that make up the dumpling (the fish was the most prominent out of them all). It’s actually the cheapest dish we reviewed, so do try it out~

8.00000001 / 10

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Makes it much less “umay-ing” (lol translation pl0x), which is always a good thing

8.50 / 10

Mix Sunomono

Ren: A mixture of vegetables and seafood marinated in vinegar, very rich in flavor but definitely not for everyone. The tastelessness of the seafood highlighted the vinegar as they were not thoroughly marinated long in the vinegar but the cucumbers had a sour taste of the vinegar. Not for your normal consumption, but could it have another use? A 6.5/10. With the “God-Sauce” a 7/10.

RJ: Being alchoholics, we definitely had an “UY!” moment when we first tasted this dish. I just loved the crab and prawn, the squid was ok and we just couldn’t get enough of the seaweed. Just avoid the cucumbers, you’ll get overpowered by the sour taste of vinegar. 7.5/10. The All-Mighty Sauce didn’t really affect this dish, 7.6/10.

Allen: This is something that in my opinion, would sound better if it was called the “Japanese Pulutan”. I found myself avoiding the sea cucumbers though, since the taste was really too sour for my preference; the squid, prawn and seaweed on the other hand, really went well with the vinegar. You could think of this dish as an expensive version of the pickled radish you can find at Yoshinoya’s ~_^

7.131323 / 10

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It makes the sea cucumbers actually bearable! Didn’t do much to help the squid/prawn/seaweed though

7.5 / 10

Jurassic Maki

Ren: The mixture of the soft rice and seafood with the crispiness of the unagi, definitely made this one a keeper. But this tiny package isn’t complete without the sauce! Taken in as their secret recipe (we tried to ask and they wouldn’t just give it to us how) just made this dish more delectable! A rare treat, and something I would come back for 10/10. With the “God-Sauce” a 12/10. (not sure if its possible but what the hecK?)

RJ: I fell in-love with this dish. It’s just fantastic! The Crunchyness, the softness, the tenderness. It all blended so damn well, it’s heavenly! Definitely a must-have if you decide to go to this establishment. 9/10. The Sauce of Divinity made a heavenly dish even more heavenly! I couldnt believe it! 11/10!

Allen: Crunch. crunch. The name jurassic fits quite well, since the maki does seem to give of a “meaty” experience. The crunchy eel and soft crab is a nice combination, and really goes well with the dip. Crunch. crunch.

8.2343343 / 10

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HEAVENLY. this is certainly a dish where you could throw away the much familiar soy sauce + wasabi combination~

9.00 / 10

The Aftermath

What you see in the center of the photo is the Legenadary God-Sauce. The sauce that was served with the Seafood Dumplings and Jurassic Maki. All eight dishes were dipped in it and it showed remarkable results! Our questions on what made this heavenly sauce possible were denied, Omakase intends to keep their Sacred Sauce a secret.

When we went: Saturday, August 30, 2008. (sorry its late Fiel – -;)
Where it is: Thomas Morato Food Strip!!!
Budget Range: About 200-300 per person.