those who have been following this blog since this was started a month ago have probably noticed there is not one entry here that talks about restaurants with eat all you can restos...the title of the site is eat all you can....hmmmm....wait no more because here is my first real 'eat all you can' entry...
last night i had dinner with friends at king one rotary hot pot (hobbies of asia, macapagal avenue)...it is an eat all you can, drink all you can restaurant....
when we got in the one who invited us had already started cooking our meal...yes, it's that kind of restaurant where you are the one who cooks your own food....hot pot...at the center of your table there is a hot plate where the hot pot with soup is placed...you can set the temperature of the hot plate....the hot pot has a division in the middle so you can have two types of soup at the same time if you want to....this is where you will boil/cook your ingredients of choice....at the center of the restaurant is a counter surrounded by a revolving track (not rotating?)...on the track are bowls of the different ingredients that you can choose from (slices of meat, seafoods, vegetables, noodles)...if your table is adjacent to the track you can just grab what you want without needing to stand up....but if your table is far from the track you would need to exert effort to got there and get what you need....but fortunately, the owners of king one rotary hot pot probably realized that this is such a hassle so what they do to help their guests is they give a checklist of the ingredients available...you check whatever you want and the waiters will get them for you...
what we had are the following (not all at once, of course): shrimps, shrimps, more shrimps, dumplings and wanton, fresh oysters, thin slices of meat (bacon strips), bacon strips, more bacon strips, sweet corn, cuttlefish, fish cake, bean curd and water crest....the strips of meat are so thin they get cooked in about 10 seconds...yumyum...the shrimps weren't really big...but they were delicious nonetheless....the dumplings were great especially if you make a good sauce...yes, you mix your own sauce...there's sate', garlic, spring onions, red chili, onions....my friends liked the oysters...i liked it too (i was the one who asked for it actually) but i only ate a few....i didn't want to eat a lot because i'm not sure if my stomach could stomach (haha) a lot....but the winner that night for me was the water crest....at first i was apprehensive about it because it looks like a freshly cut garden plant...then when its starting to cook it has a certain smell similar to that of celery which i really hate...but when i tried a small sample i immediately liked it....the stem (is that how you call it?) was crunchy and the leaves are slimy....my friend said it tastes like kangkong but for me it tasted better....
i ordered coke at first....my friend had green apple with nata de coco bits....her order looked great so i felt i made the wrong choice...tsktsk....good thing i was told that you can change drinks so you can sample everything....wow.....so i after i finished my soda i asked for that green apple thing...it was fantastic...really....im not exagerating...oh well....but i liked it....a bit sour....mildly sour....and the nata de coco is fun to eat...its not as hard as the one you buy in bottles in grocery stores...i think i had three glasses of that....
oh, by the way, aside from the food you cook you can also sample their other dishes....for every two persons you get to order one free dish....we got spareribs and salt and pepper squid heads....they were also good especially the salt and pepper squid heads.....
the place is big....there were a lot of people coming in and out but i never saw line forming outside....there was a line of chairs for people waiting but it never got occupied....the timing of the diners seems to be great that night...people come in as others are about to go....great....i wonder if all those people made reservations....we did not....
the place is also clean....the chairs are comfortable....however there is only one comfort room....well two...one for males and one for females....i didn't see line forming outside the comfort rooms also but i feel that for a place that big they should have at least two comfort roms for each...
i cannot tell you the price per person because i was not the one who paid....i didn't ask out of courtesy to the one who invited us but i heard from anothert able on my way to the comfort room that it was more that PhP 500 per person....the drink was PhP 65 per order -- great price....
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