EATS: Love Desserts

After our trip to the University to the Philippines, we went to Trinoma and to SM City North Edsa (I was going to blog about these two, but there was not enough content). We met with a ton of good friends of my auntie and uncle.

These good friends (I think) they met via WOWTrippers (Backpacking adventures to the Philippines!). It was the owner of WOWTrippers' birthday (Janine / J9!) and we met her at the TriNoma Foodcourt.

After a hell of a lot of browsing in at a store that sells backpacking and hiking gear (Good Lord, I hope my description of the store is correct), we went on a car journey to a place that has a buffet. But this is not an ordinary type of buffet, this was a dessert buffet (diabetes for everyone!)

NOTE: Once you see a word "shot" on this blog post, it was a non-alcoholic thing, and was purely cream, toppings and calories. I'm not that stupid to consume alcohol. It was just in a shot glass, that's all.

When we got there, we just sat down for a literal five seconds before everyone got up, got plates and browsed the selection of desserts.

There was an array of cakes and pastries, cookie jars were present, so was tarts. On the other side, the  crew was making fresh crepes, make-your-own halo-halo (shaved ice with toppings! very Filipino), ice cream and toppings and three drinks, water, iced tea and boba (pearl milk tea / buble tea)

From Top Left, Clockwise: Smarties Cookie, Cookies & Cream Shot (non-alcoholic),
Brownie and a Mini Tart.

Off the bat, I didn't want to try any cakes, because they were heavy on the stomach. The cookie, brownie and the tart tasted the same, which was very surprising. The Cookies & Cream shot was awesome. 

I also wanted a crepe. They had four crepe flavor options, and I took strawberry. Tita (auntie) Janine and Tita Joy opted for the blueberry crepe. Crepe tasted purely like jam. 

The best part of this was the shots (Please read the note above if you haven't already) and the ice cream. The ice cream I had was vanilla and strawberry. They also offered three shots, Cookies & Creme, Peach and Chocolate Mousse. The Cookies & Cream one was to die for. I would have it every day if it wasn't for the weight I'd gain and the diabetes I'd get. 

From Left - Cookies and Cream, Peach Shot, Chocolate Mousse

The buffet of desserts was incredibly affordable, at PHP 199 (~ USD 4). I would say that I mostly enjoyed this EATS because of the company I had, which was friends with my uncle and auntie. I didn't enjoy the food that much, maybe because I sampled the same things all over again. Hope to change that.

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EATS: Bamboo City Asian Buffet

In my previous blog-post about Stockholm's Changing of the Guard and Old Town (click here to view), I said that we ate in Bamboo City, which is a buffet restaurant located in Drottninggatan. 

I think that the price for buffet for adults is SEK 158 and SEK 128 for kids. I just based it on the sign above, so I'm not sure...

While we were seated, we ordered three Pepsi's and a water which was served in less than five minutes. We then went to get some food from the buffet. There were a wide variety of options to choose from, from deep-fried goodness, to a fruit and ice-cream bar to a bar where you get your own raw food and let the cooks cook it for you.

My first plate was sushi. Below (clockwise from left), I had a sushi roll filled with mango and crab, a crabstick wrapped rice roll, a shrimp (?) topped rice roll and salmon sushi.

The crabstick sushi was the best, as I love me some awesome crabstick. I wouldn't say that the salmon one was good, because it tasted gooey and was like gelatin. It also kept falling from the rice blob.                                      

My second plate was dim-sum. I didn't take a picture because it looked so good that I just had to eat it before capturing. I had steamed and deep fried shu-mai, a deep fried dumpling and a boiled fish dumpling.

Everything was very good, with the exception of the boiled fish dumpling which tasted like water. Loved the deep fried shu-mai, basically because I never had one of those in a long while. The deep fried dumpling was disappointing though, because it was kind of chewy and not crisp.

My third plate was "randomly Chinese". (Clockwise from middle) I had some fried rice, deep fried shrimp, a squid cracker, deep fried chicken and two spring rolls.

The deep fried shrimp, chicken and the squid biscuit were exceptional. If you ever go here, don't miss those. The rice was "ehh" as I couldn't taste anything besides the corn kernels. The spring rolls were fine...

I then grabbed a fourth plate, which was a plate just with the deep fried shrimp, the cracker and the chicken. I called this the "favorites platter". I then grabbed a watermelon slice, a fried banana, some ice cream and maple syrup for dessert.

Overall, I think was the dining experience was above-average, although the placing of their buffets were not exactly up to par. The main buffets and the place where you get the raw food to be cooked are in the left of the restaurant, the fruit bar at the right, and the Chinese food and deep-fried stuff on the back right of the restaurant, near the restrooms.

Speaking of restrooms, they were nasty. Toilet paper everywhere. Not very hygienic at all. Half of my appetite was lost.

Value for money? I think it's too steep. It should've been SEK 100 for adults, SEK 70-80 for kids. Or is that too low to make a profit?

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Bamboo City (Chinese/Mongolian Buffet) 
Drottninggatan 28
Stockholm 111 51 
Norrmalm, Sweden 
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