Price- 480php weekday lunch buffet / 580php-week end dinner buffet / 65php- unlimited drinks / 680 left over charge)

Serves mostly japanese/korean/chinese fare

Last June 18, 2011 we went to yakimix in greenbelt 3 for Kumag’s mom birthday (we were a party of 10). Checked out the place earlier in Munchpunch and their fanpage in Facebook, and people gave it a 5 star.

The price looks too affordable for what they are serving and the chandelier certainly gave it a hotel feel. An extra bang for the buck.

So kumag started cooking.

Yaki mix

Price- 480php weekday lunch buffet / 580php-week end dinner buffet / 65php- unlimited drinks / 680 left over charge)

Serves mostly japanese/korean/chinese fare

Last June 18, 2011 we went to yakimix in greenbelt 3 for Kumag’s mom birthday (we were a party of 10). Checked out the place earlier in Munchpunch and their fanpage in Facebook, and people gave it a 5 star.

The price looks too affordable for what they are serving and the chandelier certainly gave it a hotel feel. An extra bang for the buck. (insert picture of chandelier and their buffet table)

So kumag started cooking. (insert his cooking pic and the grilled chenes)

It’s a smokeless grill so definitely it was all fun without smelling like the grilling kitchen. Their meat and seafood for grill are fresh. And since you are the cook its up to you if you want it well done or what not.

Its fun cooking and raiding their buffet table. There are 10 of us on the table so it was kind of chaotic fun. Kumag and I haven’t really been able to take blog worthy pictures of the place and the food. He was busy entertaining, and I was mindlessly chowing down the food.

They are prompt when it comes to replenshing drinks. And no dish on the buffet table stays empty for a long time. The selection is expansive and good. They have a lot of maki and sushi to choose from. The meat section is brimming too. Same goes for the seafood.

The cooked dishes are excellent. The dessert honestly wasn’t at par with the rest of the food that they are serving. But hey you came here for the main course. We weren’t exactly complaining. Though a slice of cheesecake, fruit infusion and fondue won’t hurt (but will perhaps drive the price higher) . They don’t seem to have an in house pastry chef. The black forest is from red ribbon and the mango cake is from goldilocks.

The ice cream selection from selecta is a nice touch and more than makes up for the dessert section.

The service crew are pleasant, they are actually smiling. (insert their picture)

Since it’s a Saturday a lot people are celebrating their birthdays (either in advance or belatedly) and so we made a request for them to sing for Mami. (insert picture)

One thing that irks me a bit is their greeting each time that a large party comes in they will holler Gozaimasu! It feels like palengke, kumag doesn’t mind though he said it makes the place more festive. Oh well, whatever floats your boat. According to kumag, the rest room feels like it’s a break room for crews, hey we all deserve a break so its fine with me. Just let me pee in peace.

It was a fun night. Bill totalled to 7k (2 kids, and 2 senior citizens and the rest of us, adults) its worth it.

Verdict:

9 stars of 10

Because no place is perfect, everything needs improvement (waves at crowd of people, smiles at the cue of flashbulbs). But seriously, its because of the dessert (haha) we haven’t really been able to let the idea of having a hotel-like dessert selection go and the restroom issue.

We will definitely come back.

Yaki-mix vs dampa? I’ll go for the convenience , variety and taste of yaki mix (have had the food switching and padded bill in dampa once, but that’s for another topic) and for once I would like to chowdown seafood on a place that has hotel ambiance with-out the tag price. Kumag and I recommends Yaki-mix to couples and small groups. But if you’re a group of say 12 persons or more (and some of you are light eaters) you might be better off eating in dampa.

Must try:

The seafood (of course!). The meat section. Crepe suzzette. Danish pastry.

Slow down on:

maki ,sushi and fried rice (buffets are not for carbo loading, methinks)

what to avoid:

food? nothing really. Oh, there is that chocolate with rice pops (the one that looks like curly tops with spiral white chocolate)

Be here at around 5pm-530pm have your self listed by the guard. Door opens at 6pm. After 630pm its really queueing. Place closes at 11pm.For lunch it opens at 12pm, closes at 230pm.

So have fun! Gorge!

Pilot Episode

Dear kumag,

Some people adopt kids. Some get dogs. In our we case, we have the to do list. If we are not doing anything, we are looking for things to do. So shortly after that we would be doing something. And its not a dvd marathon – this is interesting but in nearly three years of being together we only manage to do this a few times. We don’t stand by the sidelines vicariously experiencing other people have fun. We are having a piece of the action.

The to do list of - taste this, buy that, have this, go to that, get out of this, be that. And so we have been running around the metro like the energizer bunnies that we are. We prided ourselves to have more mileage walking and commuting than anyone else. On a regular mall day, we go to four malls, but on a not so regular day that can go as high as eight malls. All in the pursuit of the perfect color, size and fit, not to mention the price. We explore restaurants, hole in the wall eats, hotel buffets and week end markets. Thus; the mileage.

We have always been opinionated. In our heads we are the authority. The to-go-to if other people would like to eat, buy this, buy that. With our consumeristic lifestyle we haven’t really been able to perfect spending wisely. More of check out reviews, go to the place follow the instinct. Third party sources hasn’t been always correct (per our experience), too kind or too critical. We often wish that there is that omniscient blog to sway us. To challenge us. To warn us.

After the bill and after the fact we sit down and dissect. Review. Discuss. What the eff was that expensive meal about. Why the buzz? What made it overrated? Or this place should be more popular. That place should lower their prices,make their servings bigger, and make their crews move faster. This place will be big next year or this will shutdown in a minimum of 3 months.

We have long joke that each place that we visited should get our stamp. To those few that made the cut, must get the kumag and afro red rbbon of excellence.

We have pranced across the metro and we only have pictures to show for it. Pictures speak for themselves and it needs us to weave the stories. Honestly, wallposts feels like posting it for show.

So we mark the giant corkboard with pushpins, strings, and our pictures plus the article. A blog. Its going to be comprehensive.

This is going to be our eco-friendly adventure book. No extra paper, no wasted ink. Just bytes of fun and likes.

Hope you like it.