🥘Lunch Time! 🍗
14 September 2017.
After almost 2 hours of travel and going around Dubai doing crazy stuff like blood extraction for medical fitness exam, what's a better way to treat yourself but with an "Eat All You Can" buffet of Filipino dishes?
It was my first time around that area in Al Karama, Dubai. Though it is widely known to be an area with lots of Filipinos here and there - I remember my Pakistani driving instructor from many years ago even said that:
"you can turn a stone upside down and find a Kabayan underneath".
"Kabayan" is how Filipinos are referred to here in the UAE and I think I can safely say, anywhere else in the world.
Much to my gastronomic delight, there was a whole ground floor of Filipino restaurants in my new company's office building. A majority, if not all of them, have "Eat All You Can" buffets! Goodness! I envy my Dubai officemates already. LOL.
Eating Time. Finally! 🍴
As soon as you enter the building, you will be treated with a mouth-watering aroma of Filipino Food. You'll pass by the restaurants with smiling Kabayanstaff inviting you to come in.
We decided to go into 365 Restaurant, which was strategically located near the entrance.
Their buffet had a range of chicken, beef, seafoods, vegetables, desserts and bottomless drinks (soda, juice or iced tea) all for AED 29 ($7.88). For my son (8 years old) I paid AED18 ($4.89).
They had Crispy Honey Chicken and Fried Chicken, which were of course a hit to my son. He also loved the calamari to go with his rice.
As for me, I loved the pancit bihon/canton, chop suey, battered crispy shrimps and chicken sisig. They were just so tasty! I also tried the laing (dried taro leaves in coconut milk) which I could not help but compare with the laing which hubby @kennyroy cooked just the night before. The laing was too salty for my taste - I was prompted to eat it with steamed white rice.
I would have loved to try the crabs if it only it will not be messy. They also had bopis (beef) which I did not try since I do not eat innards (eewww, sorry!)They also had goto and lomi, for which I was already too full to even see. What I regretted was the fish kilawin which I only noticed when we were already about to leave the restaurant.
DeSSert!
The word dessert is rightly spelled with double "S". SO SWEET. My favorite part of the meal! I always leave a space in my tummy of desserts.
They had halo-halo, which got its name from "mixed together" since it is a combination of different sweetened fruits, jelly, beans, etc topped with ice shavings and evaporated milk. Personally, I thought that it would not be nice because it lacked sweetened banana which for me is the "heart" of halo-halo. However, since I was free to put as much sugar and milk as I wanted it still ended up delicious, thanks to the purple yam too!
For my son (ehem, mined too), I tried to mix the buko pandan and sweetened macapuno with the halo-halo... Aww, I could still taste the sweetness!
That smile of satisfaction.
It was a task for me to keep awake all throughout the drive from Al Karama to Al Barsha Heights (we went to enroll my kid for homeschool) then home to Abu Dhabi. It felt like I was in food coma all that time. Thanks God for keeping me alert and in control behind the wheel.
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I think you had a delicious meal, the son is very like you.
Oh thank you. When you see my husband you'll say otherwise. Lol. And yes, we had a great meal!. 😉
Wow yummy food and happy life is the best ..happy kido happy family :)
It was really amusing to find that much Pinoy food in one place. Thanks, @antonette.
...isn't that Chowking's halo-halo in their tarp?! 😂😂😂
Oh. Yeah. I did not realize that. Omg... 😂😅😂😅
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what a nice place to spend time with love ones... nice photo
Thank you @noahinigo10101
As they say, we, Pinoys love to eat. SSD may nae-enjoy kayo na food diyan. :)
Very true @ryssa! 😊
It was a good thing that there are restaurants serving Filipino foods there. Looking at the photos made me hungry. Sisig and crabs would be nice. 😋 my father works abroad too so he really miss filipino foods especially the dishes that my mother serves.
Here in the UAE, it is a little bit easy to find Filipino food - there are lots Filipino restaurants and even the big hypermarkets have sections dedicated to Filipino food items. However, this building in Karama Dubai had the whole ground floor of Pinoy restaurants. Amusing. LOL.
My father would be jealous. Haha. Are pork allowed in UAE? My father works in Saudi Arabia and pork isnt allowed there. so he sometimes craves for it. Haha
Yes, there are shops licensed to sell pork and pork items. So pork is not missed too. 😉
As for restaurants, only some hotels are licensed to serve pork.
UAE is a bit more lax when it tends to these things compared to KSA. Ladies are even allowed to drive and own a car. In Saudi you cant. We can even openly practice Christian religion here. Oh, I'm just glad we are not in KSA. haha