~ Restaurant reviews by perkyperps ~

Showing 1 - 4 of 4 reviews

  • 2 of 2 people found this helpful:
    FOOD TRIP: World Chicken (at MOA!)
    World Chicken, Glorietta 4
    Rating - 4.25 - 4.25 - 4.25 - 4.25 - 4.25
    Food - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4
    Service - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4
    Ambiance - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4
    Value - 5 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 5
    Category: Restaurants
    Cuisine: Italian
    Location: Mall of Asia

    My old-time favorite has now opened a new branch, at last! Dubbed by the National Consumers Quality Award in 2005 as the "Most Promising Chicken Specialty Franchise" and "No. 1 Deboned Chicken" granted by the People's Brand Award, I knew this fast food stall that humbly started in Glorietta will really go a long way. I'm just wondering why it has to take this long before the owners pondered on the idea of franchising. Perhaps they've got valid reasons i.e. ROIs, timing and all the financial tralalas but nevertheless, I'm pretty glad to see them moving up to another level.

    Just like any other who knows about this store, I've got no second thoughts of coming in, and certainly, there's no need to acquaint me on what to do. Apparently, they've got a comprehensible, easy-to-follow Create Your Own Platter menu that guides through customers on what to ask.

    Step 1, place your order. 1 or 2-siding meal? You choose!

    Step 2, add your sauce. I chose a newbie and it's taragon!

    Step 3, choose your 2 sidings (though I wanted to react on this one, why 2 when you're also giving the customer an option of just 1, sheesh!). I chose 2 sidings - my ultimate fave mash potato and their new baby pasta and my favorite, pesto!

    Then the rest was history.

    As I was twitting my pals about this good find I got, I noticed the new niceties in this resto. Apart from the fact that they've got their own, new interiors, their plate is now ceramic, hallelujah! The cigarette ash tray to boot, how's that for good customer service too?

    Ok, call me shallow. The truth is, during college, whenever I craved for a pasta but since I was being frugal, World Chicken at Glorietta was the place to be. For a price of 99 (now 159 but still not bad), it was the same full course meal I had enjoyed! You couldn't blame me for being too gaga over it.

    After telling him I was reminiscing my World-Chicken-and-me days, Dylan reacted, " Uy, tumatanda ka na!"

    "Straight to the point. I was thinking kanina that even our sons and daughters, so are our grandchildren, will visit my old fave someday. Sheteng," I replied.

    Good luck, World Chicken! You completed those times when I needed you the most, to satisfy my ultimate hunger for pasta and deboned chicken, hah!

    ------------------------------------------
    perkyperps.multiply.com/reviews
    Was this review...?
  • 1 of 1 people found this helpful:
    zong on a father's day
    Zong, Westgate
    Rating - 3.5 - 3.5 - 3.5 - 3.5 - 3.5
    Food - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4
    Service - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3
    Ambiance - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4
    Value - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3
    It was a lovely Sunday afternoon when Dad, brother and I went out to celebrate Father’s Day. Since this is meant to be a special occasion, I insisted to go to somewhere exceptional and new. We haven’t made a foot-tour to West Gate near Alabang Town Center yet, so we opted to stop over there and search for the best restaurant at which there’s food we could gleefully enjoy. As soon as I stepped out, I got impressed to West Gate. It is very cozy, relaxed and cosmopolitan. Welcome to the village of the damn rich!

    We still didn’t have a restaurant in mind, but seeing Cafe Adriatico, my old-time favorite, was an immediate relief. However, we hadn’t made a full circle around West Gate so I reserved mi amore as a last resort. Just a few blocks away, Zong caught my attention.

    Unlike other restaurants around, their menu poster wasn’t visible from afar. But a group of people or two waiting for its late afternoon opening had just sparked my curiosity. As we went near, I suddenly realized that Zong is actually a Chinese restaurant, neither Japanese nor a fusion of both nor just anything Asian. Comparing this to its contemporaries like North Park and Luk Foo, Zong appears more sophisticated and comfier. My brother, who dislikes Chinese restaurants, was easily bought in by Zong’s enticing advantages: its zen-like interiors, no-MSG campaign, no Chinese-looking attendants (and even normal-looking ones who wear obnoxious Chinese outfits!) and no smell of Chinese herbs, spices and grease!

    However I had to be wary; food is still a factor for my brother’s utmost consideration. He still doesn’t like to eat any food that for him, tastes very Chinese. A safe choice, I ordered Zong’s five spiced fried chicken. For a bit of adventure, I ordered panned duck in garlic just for me and dad. We also ordered braised mixed vegetable with mushrooms, Yang chow rice, hot and sour soup, bottomless iced teas and ripe mango shake.

    I personally ordered hot and sour soup, which is actually one of a few of my regular requests whenever I eat in Chinese restaurants. I must say, Zong’s hot and sour soup is the best one now, as compared with my favorite one from Luk Foo. The soup’s texture was just right, not starchy or too slimy. Its sourness has the right kick. It also has more varieties of mushroom in it.

    The Yang chow rice is better than the one from my former favorite, North Park. The toasted garlic on top of its fluffy rice bits, delectable shrimp and egg strips was an impress. The panned duck in garlic was more interesting than I first thought. Apparently this duck dish tastes more like pork than chicken! The braised mix vegetable with mushroom dish defuses our carnivorous taste buds in between. All dishes were almost grease-and salt-free.

    How about the price? We have what we call reasonably priced, and I agree that Zong fits the bill. Like what my brother told me, he compared his drink to its contemporaries from other restaurants “Zong is cheaper,” he said.

    What I like the least from Zong is their serving size. First of all, they use white plates and bowls in serving their dishes that somewhat gives a deceiving look. Diners may think the serving’s too much. Yet we ordered another bowl of Yang chow and finished that second one until the very last rice bit. If we had just eaten at Luk Foo, we won’t be ordering another Yang chow.

    Their image logo, as well as its interior design, is also a bother. I love Chinese food, and I don’t like Japanese much. At first glance, I’d ignore this store unless I go near and find it out.

    All in all I’ll give this restaurant 5 stars given that their food is delectable, the prices are reasonable, the ambiance is cozy, and the interiors bequeathed a comfy personality of Zong.

    ------------------------------------------
    perkyperps.multiply.com/reviews
    Was this review...?
  • 1 of 1 people found this helpful:
    not so ooh lala oody's
    Oody's Xpress, Glorietta - CLOSED
    Rating - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2
    Food - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2
    Service - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1
    Ambiance - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3
    Value - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2
    I like spicy food, and Thai cuisine definitely does make my taste bud go gaga. I thought that the Pad Thai (Thai noodles) I ate in TasteAsia in Mall of Asia was my first encounter with Thai delights. Nevertheless it was when I had my love at first "taste" of it. I eventually recalled that I had already tried a similar menu two years ago. It was during a lunch date in one of its branches at Robinson’s Galleria. And my most recent Thai restaurant visit was two months ago at another resto in the Mall of Asia.

    Dad and I went to Makati to attend a seminar. Lunch time, dad and I were up again for our usual food-never-tasted-before-adventures. We ended up eating at Oody’s Express in Glorietta 2.

    A baby wearing a toque with a large scripting THAILAND at his back really speaks for itself. The restaurant’s ambiance apparently tells us more of it as a fast food due to its simple yet quite-modern interiors, apart from the being dubbed as “express.” Question is: is their service really done in a flash?

    It kind of frustrated me when I saw the menu. Apparently, the food was ho-hum, too same-old. There’s nothing much interesting to choose from. I ended up with a spicy rice bowl meal and Thai iced tea whereas dad chose pork satay and rice and pandan iced tea. For dessert, we shared Thai’s counterpart to Pinoy’s halo-halo. The dessert at last, satiated our taste buds. It tasted pretty good.

    Speaking about their service, it was lax and poor. The waiters were slow and indifferent that you’ve got to repeat your orders over and over, and follow them through after a long wait. For instance, my father waited too long for his another order of plain rice not until I asked the waiter again about it. It turns out that he failed to inform those inside the kitchen. It was very frustrating, just for a very simple order! Now that’s what we call express, the Oody’s way.

    All in all, Oody’s is a restaurant of which I could ignore the next time, unless they mend their ways, so as their menu.

    ------------------------------------------
    perkyperps.multiply.com/reviews
    Was this review...?
  • 2 of 2 people found this helpful:
    mandarin wok after a shopping walk
    Mandarin Wok, SM Mall of Asia
    Rating - 2.5 - 2.5 - 2.5 - 2.5 - 2.5
    Food - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2
    Service - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3
    Ambiance - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3
    Value - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2
    For every long trip to the shopping aisle, there’s always a corresponding hunger. I can truly say that I am my mother’s daughter; like her I normally crave either for food that I’ve never tasted or for a restaurant I’ve never visited before especially after doing my most favorite hobby.

    I looked like a shrunken pumpkin for the get up I wore this sunny Saturday but my outfit was foreseeing a possible match made-in-heaven for me when I stopped by Mandarin Wok. The name already speaks for itself and I’ve got no issue with Chinese cuisine, so I stepped in right away.

    The attendants were accommodating and courteous. Most of them were females so that already explains it.

    No matter how hungry I was, I still restrained to order the food I banned long time ago *chuckles*. I picked this tofu topped with a special sauce; pork potfinder as they call it but it’s fried pork siomai as I see it; and the so-called favorite yang chow rice. The first two dishes weren’t too salty and too oily; such characteristics that Asian fusion restaurateurs have already mastered I guess. And the yang chow? WOW. It may still be incomparable with my most favorite yang chow in Zong, but this is better than having my usual one in Chowking. The serving was a lot more than Chowking,’s that I failed to empty that rice bowl. Actually all of them, I failed to finish them all! I just easily get full nowadays, which is really a good thing for me.

    My only scrutiny was having no chopsticks around.

    Yet Mandarin Wok is amazingly price competitive amongst its contemporaries. It may take awhile before it makes its name by satisfying the palate of the majority, but Mandarin Wok has potential.

    ------------------------------------------
    perkyperps.multiply.com/reviews
    Was this review...?

back to top ↑

Advertisement ↓