Dampa 101: Sis Seafood Palutuan at Sea Side SM Mall of Asia

July 21, 2012

It was one stormy afternoon but that didn't hindered our excitement for the much awaited bonding with one of our colleague that took a big leap on her career. Ahem! :)

It was not a planned and detailed event as it was only communicated to us in less than one week. In spite of that, we were still a bunch of enthusiastic people! Ready to rumble with fooood! :)

It was a sudden eat-out but we have already decided that we are going to eat at Dampa SM Mall of Asia. Dampa is a place wherein series of restaurants are offering paluto(cooking) of wide variety of fresh sea foods of your choice. The place also has a close by small wet market wherein you could actually choose all the sea food you wanted to eat, they way you wanted it to be cooked. But aside from sea foods they also offer variety of meat courses.

After getting quite exhausted by the convincing prowess of the waiter and waitresses of different restaurants, we finally managed to choose one of them and that is --- Sis Seafood Palutuan. Aside from food, we also wanted to have some videoke session and since the restaurant offers it, we chose them. So now, we have settled our selves and waited for the ordered food to come and while waiting --- picture-picture! :)

Mommy and daughter tandem! The girl who took the leap! :)

Some were so busy chit-chatting and catching up and some of us busy with the videoke. Unfortunately, since the weather was not really good that time having hard rain and series of thunders, I think the videoke set was struck by lightning and had some short circuit something making it not usable. We ended up not using the videoke at all! Darn! Anyway, the food already arrived so it made us busy, totally forgetting about the videoke and stuff. Haha! :)

Tuna Sinigang

Buttered Shrimp

Corn and Crab Soup (for the kid)

Liempo

Calamares

Thanks for the food, Pinky! :)

Baked Tahong w/ Cheese! Yum, yum!

We were so quiet the moment the food was served, enjoyed the festivity in front of us. I'm so full that time as I really love seafood! The Tuna Sinigang, Corn and Crab Soup, Liempo and Calamares tasted really good while the Buttered Shrimp was a little blunt but nevertheless, since I really love shrimps, I enjoyed it. The star of the night for me was the Baked Tahong! It has lots of cheese and it was cooked just right. I just loved it and I'm craving for more! Yum, yum! :)

After the "Storm". The red-circled plate was mine. Full of tahong shells! Haha! :)

After the mind-blowing and mouthful serving of different sea foods, still the rain drizzles a little and it is getting late already. Most us doesn't want to stay too long as they came from the north side of the metro and doesn't want to be stranded along the way. Of course, before going on our separate ways and doze off, photo mode on! :)

Fellow blogger Nelia Dy (Check her blog here)

MOA Eye

That was a great time full of laughter, stories and food. This bunch of people, every time they are together, never failed to have a good time. As for the Sis Seafood Palutuan, thanks for the good food and for the good service you gave us. Until then!

THANK YOU PINKY LEBRILLA-BUENAFE FOR THE TREAT! WE LOVE YOU! :)

Ciao!

A Fun Night @ LaMesa Grill

August 25, 2012

It was not a planned meet up nor an accident get together. There was an event held at SM Sky Dome courtesy of our company and we have registered to join the said event. We decided not to stay and finish the  event and just stroll around the mall. It was already nighttime when we got out of the event venue and unfortunately we ended up not knowing where to go and what to do! Haha.

Suddenly, one of my friends(who doesn't drink much) suggested to have a drink in some restaurant at the place. Since its been soooo long since the last time we had did drink all together(the originals and the extended "family"), we nodded with enthusiastic approval.

Actually, we had a hard time looking for a place as most of the restaurants were full and we had to wait inline. We don't want to go home too late, and we were at SM North Edsa, so we decided to check out some restaurants in Trinoma, hoping that the place is not too crowded. We planned of dining in at Gerry's Grill, but same as their branch in SM North, we still have to wait inline. We also tried at Gilligan's but same with Gerry's, we still have to wait. After searching more, we decided to dine at Lamesa Grill.

Photo credit to the owner

We just wanted to have some drinks since we have already eaten at the event we have attended earlier so most of our orders were some Tanduay Ice and food for pulutan and of course non-stop chitchat and laugh trip.

Tanduay Ice: First Batch

Chicken Sisig: Php 180.00

Leche Flan: Php 45.00

Cassava Cake: Php 60.00

Pork Sisig: Php 198.00

Mango Shake: Php 70.00

Perfect Match! :)

Sisig Rice: Php 180.00

Weng-weng: Php 227.50

BJ - Buko Juice: Php 60.00

Seafood Combo: Php 485.00

All in all, we had 2 buckets of Tanduay Ice and 1 pitcher of Weng-weng. My friend told us to order Weng-weng as it was good tasting and sweet daw. Most of us are not casual drinkers so we were skeptical at first but since she assured us that it is good so we ordered it. I am one of the first to drank it when it arrived as I haven't tasted it before, excited how good tasting it was, but to dismay it tastes like cough syrup. I'm not used to drink hard liquors so I didn't liked it so I just stick to drinking Tanduay Ice instead. We complained to her about it only to find out that what she was thinking was not Weng-weng but the mixed drink "Badtrip"! Haha. Anyway, the drink has been order so she didn't have any choice but to drink it all! Haha! My other friend helped her though! :)

We also ordered Chicken and Pork Sisig as our pulutan. As usual, everytime I eat at Lamesa, their Sisig is one best of the best tasting Sisig, especially the Chicken. Their Sisig Rice is good too! My friend ordered Leche Plan, Cassava Cake and Mango Shake but I don't know if it is good or not as I wasn't able to taste(since its not my order anyway). Baked Tahong with cheese was also ordered but I was bit disappointed as I do love seafood. It doesn't taste really good and the meat was fishy and a bit thin, "malnourished" as I call it. Haha!(I don't have a picture though). Lastly, a friend of mine ordered their Seafood Combo. The fish was good. The Shrimps tasted a little blunt and tahong were "malnourished". Average meal I guess.

Eventhough that was the case, nevertheless we really enjoyed the night. Too much enjoyment, we ended up paying this:

After the fun and noisy drink and dine, we decided to stay a little longer and stroll around the place. Some of us were a little bit tipsy most probably my friend who drank the pitcher of Weng-weng(she was so quiet back then). Nevertheless, we continued of chit-chats and laugh trip along the way.

Its already getting late so we decided to go home. Even if where already on the bus on the way home, we still had non-stop chitchat and laugh trip, even if this one's already quiet. Haha!

Peace! \m/

P.S. I don't make any review or have plan of being a critique or whatsoever. I wrote for the fun of sharing my happy time with friends, that's all. :)

Time to end this post.

Ciao!