Big Ben's Kitchen Longganisang Imus and Salted Egg Lumpia

Another longganisa experiment recipe :)

Ingredients:
Longganisa (minced)
Salted egg chopped
Onions
Salt and Pepper
Soy sauce
Lumpia wrapper

Procedure:
Mixed all ingredients. Season with salt and pepper. Place the filling in a lumpia wrapper and roll. Fry the lumpia until golden brown. Served with Big Ben's sukang sasa.

Watermelon Beef Short Rib Sinigang

Watermelon Beef Short Rib Sinigang is sinigang na baka with slices of watermelon. The watermelon blended well with the sour taste of paasim that its like tom yum. 

Ingredients:
4 tablespoons cooking oil
1 kilo beef short ribs
1 tablespoon garlic, crushed
1 white onion, chopped
½ of whole watermelon (medium-sized), cut into chunks
5-8 pieces native tomatoes, quartered
4 pieces Gabi, cut into chunks
4 cups water
2 tablespoons Maggi Sinigang Watermelon Surprise
1 bunch sitaw
1 bunch kangkong
Patis to taste
Pepper to taste

Procedure:
Heat 2 tablespoons of oil. Sear beef short ribs. Set aside.
In the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil, saute onion and garlic until translucent.
Add the beef, tomatoes, watermelon, gabi and water. Bring to a boil.
Reduce heat to a simmer and cook until beef is tender (about 1-2 hours).
Add sinigang powder mix and sitaw. Simmer until vegetables are cooked.
Add kangkong last. Season with patis and pepper.

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Recipe Source: http://www.bitesized.ph/manam-style-watermelon-sinigang/

Malabanos

Malabanos is Cavite-style fish adobo dish made of eel (palos) which is meaty like pork. Let us revisit cooking it again this time with better photos.

Ingredients:
Female Malabanos (already bathe in turmeric and sliced thickly)
turmeric (luyang dilaw) if not bathe in it
vinegar
garlic
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

Pour enough vinegar into the malabanos. Add minced/chopped garlic. Add some turmeric. Salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil the way how you normally cooked your adobo. Fry fish until is crispy outside. Add back to the sauce.

Beef Tapa

Tapsilog is an abbreviation for Tapa, Sinangag (Fried Rice), and Itlog (Fried egg).

Ingredients:

1½ lb beef sirloin, thinly sliced

5 tbsps Maggi soy sauce

calamansi juice (depending on taste)

minced garlic

salt and black pepper

Procedure:

In a container, combine and mix well. Add beef and put in a clear ziplock bag or container. 

Refrigerate overnight. In a pan, place 1 cup water and bring to a boil. Add 3 tbsp of cooking oil

Put-in the marinated beef tapa and cook until the water evaporates.

Dad's World Buffet

Resto Name: Dad's World Buffet
Location: Glorietta, Makati City
Type:  American, Filipino, Japanese
Buffet Price: P738 / P938 Eat-All-You-Can Buffet and Drinks

The last time we've been here when digital camera is still not popular. 

Food and service deteriorated big time since the first time we visited over a decade ago. It has better line of foods when it was still Kamayan, Saisaki and Dad's wherein you have a choice to go all Filipino only or Filipino-Japanese at a lesser price. If the highlight before was the Dad's buffet now its horrible. Not even half of the food listed on their website about Dad's exist of quality. Was eyeing the Yam Pla Duk Foo but the entire stay of three hours it was NEVER refilled. 

Only the head and tail of hito as design so it will not look empty and so are the other dishes in that section. Some dishes are all dried up like it was there since yesterday. The lamb curry was horrible that its looks like its been there for days. The only sections that was well managed and refilled is the Japanese and lechon/crispy pata/ lechon kawali. And there are no kuhol, crabs, oysters and shrimps. Mussels are limited although there are limited few grilled fishes choices. And there are no pizza and the yummy lasagna was only in a small tray and was never refilled. The meat in the carving station was all meh compared to other buffets and so are the limited choice of sauce.

Salad Section

First plate

Second Plate

Only the lechon was yummy 

Third Plate

Japanese 

Dessert Plate 

Anyways here are five food I find yummy:

Lechon de Leche

Sukiyaki

Beef Lasagna

S'mores

 Ube Custard Cake

 This yummy little cake as last eaten save my disappointment.

Overall, not worth the money especially they increase by P50 making them more expensive than other buffets with the poor quality and serving of food they are offering specially the Dad's international buffet section per se. 

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Food – 2.00 stars
Service – 1.50 stars
Ambiance – 3.5 stars
Value – 2.00 stars

OVERALL BUFFET RATING – 2.25 stars

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Dad's World Buffet
Address: 2nd Level Glorietta 3, Ayala Center, Makati City
Phone: (02) 892 8898
Hours: Open · 11 AM to 2:30 PM, 6:00 PM to 10 PM (Mon-Sun)