We were supposedly looking for 169 Seafood Restaurant which his brother Talong told us. No luck of eye-ing 169 though. Then a Causeway Restaurant valley park man politely referred us to Tramway (along Scout Tobias I think) and Chinatown's Best both in Banawe Streets. We had dinner with Chinatown Best a while back and that was the current best (quite inexpensive)buffet in town for both of us. We wanted to try something new so we headed for Tramway, the dinner cost P188. We got inside and took a glance at their dishes in the buffet table. We only sighted a big unknown kind of fish, we thought that wasn't good enough and we would not be satisfied. We went back to the car and finally decided dining in Tong Yang Hot Pot along Quezon Avenue across Aberdeen Court.
Tong Yang Hot Pot buffet costs P560 per pax including any (all-you-can) drink of your choice. The food setting for buffet is a little bit new to us. Normally, us dinners will see cooked food on the buffet table. Oh well, not for Tong Yang. The restaurant has wide array of fresh seafoods which will let diners pick what they want and cooked it on their own hot pot, except crab which is serve cooked. Hmmm...diners get to eat their food zizzlingly hot! Table setting is ala - shabu shabu style. You get to have the hot pot itself with a grill at the bottom. For soups you get to choose normal, spicy, and sinigang. We opted for spicy which is quite good.
Samples of their seafood choices are slices of lapu-lapu, tanigue, yellow fin, and tuna. If I were to count it, i would say Tong Yang has around 15 kinds of fishes. And then there shrimps! hmmm... cooked with garlic and butter? why not?So tempting to eat huh. Aaahhhh, I might run to the car now and drive back to Tong Yang! Not yet, not until I finish this post!
Tong Yang also has choices of noodles, vegetables, marinated beef, chicken, pork, lamb...name it! And here's an exciting one... US prime beef,oh boy!
The highlight in Tong Yang Hot Pot is the the crabs. Those cooked to perfection pieces of huge crabs is oh so mouth watering. Take note that crabs are not served all the time. You can have unlimited crabs but you have to wait for it's serving time. Staying for 2 hours and a half in the restaurant, we had 2 servings of crabs, huge serving by the way. As far as we know, they served crabs every after an hour. Funny thing with these crabs is...whenever the diners hear the waiter saying "crabs are available" these diners (including Myke) immediately proceeded to where the crabs are situated. Tong Yang suddenly turned into a seemingly scene of a crowded people with vendors yelling in the wet market,just imagine that :)
Anyway, when you dine in Tong Yang Hot Pot make sure you have enough room for deserts. You cant get enough of ice creams, fresh fruits, and Filipino deserts buko pandan and halo-halo.
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