Excellent Pakistani home style cooking! Worth going at least one to try!read more

A few weeks ago, we were invited to lunch at Sabreen's Seafood Market Restaurant along J. Bocobo…read moreSt. in Malate. It is located just across from Hizon's. Parking is available in front (free), but is limited. They have a guard who can watch over your car. Sabreen's Seafood Market Restaurant is newly-renovated from the previous Seafood Market, and is under new management. The current owner was a regular customer who decided to take over when the previous owner planned to sell. When I entered Sabreen's, I couldn't believe such a nice restaurant existed in the heart of Malate. The decor is very luxurious for a "palutuan" - with velvet chairs and Mediterranean touches, and a COOL AIRCON, a definite must in the Manila heat! SABREEN'S SEAFOOD MARKET RESTAURANT INTERIORS There is a very nice waiting area that greets you when you enter. Once you enter the restaurant, on the right, you'll see the seafood display section where you can pick out what you would like to have cooked. Here's what the restaurant interiors look like (see pics). There are some Mediterranean touches inside the restaurant (see pics). You can watch your food being cooked -- there are see-through windows to the kitchen: FOOD "SHOPPING" After reserving a table, we went "shopping" for our food. The meal was a treat so I don't know how much our orders came out to. There is generally no cooking charge, except for maybe special orders. You are charged the price of the seafood you buy, the cooking is already included in the seafood price. THE FOOD We started with the Clam Ginger Soup. It was light and clean tasting, a perfect start to our seafood fiesta. We also ordered some Baked Scallops and some Crab in Chili Sauce. For some semblance of healthy eating, we had this Mixed Vegetables with Oyster Sauce, which was actually quite good. It was smoky yet delicately flavored, I didn't even mind that it was vegetarian and ate a lot of this. We also had some Grilled Salmon with Lemon Butter Sauce. One of my favorites is the Fried Squid. I think it was Salt & Pepper Squid. It had a light batter, the squid was cooked just right, it was tender and not tough. It went really well with the accompanying vinegar. My other favorite dishes were the Fried Shrimp in Chili Sauce and the Crab in Chili Sauce. The sweet meat of the perfectly cooked crab was addictive. I wish I could have eaten more of the shrimp, too, but they were gone in 60 seconds! We also ordered the Pineapple Fried Rice, which had A LOT of pineapple chunks which was okay with me, but others who didn't like pineapple so much thought that it was too much pineapple. Here's the Steamed Lapu-Lapu (see pic). The Lapu-lapu was alive just a few minutes ago and was even jumping around in our cart! I have a thing about overcooked steamed fish and this was not overcooked. Awesome. Fresh, fresh, fresh! Since no one seemed interested in them, I ate the fish cheeks and fish meat at the back of the fish head, the yummiest parts, IMHO. If you know how to eat steamed fish, you know what I'm talking about! It's just not so pretty because they made a slit on the fish to make it cook more evenly and avoid overcooking. SUMMARY During the course of our meal, we saw a lot of foreigners patronizing the restaurant, so I think it is a good place to take relatives or foreign guests for a seafood meal if you don't want to venture too far, especially if they are staying in the Malate / Manila area. It is also a very nice place for a family meal, and it's big enough to accommodate the entire clan. Sabreen's is also much cleaner than going seafood shopping at Dampa. You can wear your nice clothes / shoes and not worry about getting palengke gunk on them. The renovations were done very well - the place looks like a palace! The food is fresh, especially if you go for the live fish, crabs or lobsters! The experience of choosing your food at a restaurant before it is cooked is usually a unique experience for most people, and it's something that your guests will remember for a long time. Also, I'm all praises for the cooks who turned out such delicious, mouthwatering dishes so quickly! I was happy with all the food we had. Even the simple vegetable dishes were perfectly done.

Very good crab restaurant. My favorit was steamed lapu lapu with soy source, but it was deleted…read morefrom their menu. Here is also good for business use to invite guests. Crabs they serve are big enough Now they have steamed lapu lapu with soy source.

King Crab house has stood on P. Guevarra seemingly for ages, constantly and quietly serving Chinese…read morefood for the past few decades. It's a restaurant that has stood the test of time and weathered the emergence of more modern and hip restaurants in the Greenhills area. All because they still serve the familiar, mouthwatering dishes they have since years ago. My family would still come here, partly driven by a sense of nostalgia and partly because of their oh so delicious crab vermicelli pot dish. The waiter would show you the live crab (choose between a variety of sizes) then scurry to the kitchen, and minutes later you'd have a divine meal on your table. Accompany that with their halaan soup and their fried rice and you got yourself a happy belly. While King Crab House feels a bit old and dated, it's still a good meal.

Great freshly cooked food from Banagan Seafood from Palawan. Service wonderful. Fresh experience,…read moreambiance great food magnificent

I'm from California where market seafood restaurants are a thing and ooooof this place is soooo…read moregood!! The best thing about it is that if was Filipino food - what a dream! It was really hard to say what my favorite dish was because everything was so delicious and incomparable. What we ordered: -Garlic, chili shrimp: Oh my gosh. IT WAS SO DELICIOUS!! It was flavored, seasoned just right. It had a sweet little taste to the flavoring and my assumption is that it was due to the butter in the PI. I would HIGHLY recommend getting this! -Tenigue sinigang: I've never had fresh tenegue until visiting the Philippines. Tenigue is delicious - it has a similar taste and texture to tuna. Add Tenigue in sinigang and wow - how delicious!! The thick, flakey texture adds so much depth to the sinigang. -Bulalo: I didn't try this but my brother ate the whole bowl and didn't really share with the rest of the group. *eye rolls* anyway, he must have enjoyed it a lot since he didn't share. The only thing he mentioned was the fact that it didn't have enough of "fat" -Fried Tenigue: Another variation of Tenigue. So good!! I dipped it in Patis and Calamansi. -Fried tilapia: I mean, it's basically fresh, fried tilapia and what else can you ask for? But if you're just gonna order fried seafood, I'd pair it with their veggies or their pinakbet. -Pinakbet: We got our pinakbet without any shrimp since my mom has a shrimp allergy. Without the shrimp, it was amazing!! I loved the mix of veggies. The veggies were cooked really well too - it wasn't too soggy which could happen really easily. I can only assume that the pinakbet bet with shrimp probably taste better. Other tips/hints: -Free, fast WiFi. It was great for travelers like me! -Parking. Easy to find and there was a small fee.

Massive quantities at a reasonable price. You look at the menu and the prices seem high until you…read moreget the food and realize a small is enough for two. I can't image what a large feeds.

Food are all good and delicious. I will not recommend the cold cuts not worth it in a Chinese…read morerestaurant. Service is great. Ambiance is much better than typical other Chinese restaurant. Overall I enjoyed the food and since the restaurant has been there forever they maintain the quality and taste they are famous for.

Family dinner was ruined by the old butt in order taker. She does not know what's happening but…read morekeeps on butting in with rude comments to us the customers. There was an insect at the bottom of of the soup bowl. We notified the waiter and he showed it to the kitchen. We should have taken a picture of it. We wanted the kitchen to know that they should be careful serving the soup to other customers. We paid for the meal even for the soup. Usually restaurants would omit the affected dish and apologize but NOOOOO, this old bitch had to butt in and say we finished the soup and their kitchen is clean blah blah... not the point at all. As a hospitality worker- you are sooo unhospitable and the rudeness towards customers left us NOT wanting to return to century seafood restaurant. You just serve those rich mainland china people as rude as you.

Excellent service and superb qualities of foods. The ambiance was perfect to our groupread more

2nd time here at Golden Fortune. In comparison to King Chef, and other dim sum places, it has a…read morewide range of varieties to choose from for a slightly lesser price. Quality wise it is really food, can't complain. The beef brisket soup during promo hours is only 98 PHP. Definite must to get. Beancurd and shrimp dumplings are good too. My only complaint: service time. We got seated early and placed our orders early too. It took 30+ minutes to get some of the food orders in our table. It did take a couple of follow ups with the servers, but all orders were complete. Just wish the service was slightly faster. If you want an alternative to King Chef, then go here!

I know a lot of Chinese restaurants that slash off a few pesos from their original prices during…read morepromo hours, Golden Fortune is one of them. I am not really sure why but I always make it a point to dine here only during their promo hours. Yes, I guess I'm strategic like that. Or maybe perhaps this restaurant really offers affordable and quality food choices. Aside from their dimsum, I usually dine at Golden Fortune for their shabu-shabu promo hours. Me and my dining companions usually order up a storm whenever we're here. And despite how many dishes we order, the bill still comes out cheap. All the more reason to dine here again and again. Make sure to get both the sate and original soup to get the best of both broths. Must orders would have to be: tao pao, lamb, beef, lobster balls, watercress, corn, tofu, squid balls and udon.

Part if the H2O hotel on 2nd floor…read more Dinner and sitting outside on the water watching cruise ships sail in is where it's at. Comfy chairs, lounge pillows and bad pina colada. Food at dinner is good though a bit light for what you pay for. There was only like 4 chicken pieces in my chicken adobo. And they have a tasteless egg on top. Whole squid was tender and juicy. Avoid this place for breakfast as the omelette had whole chunked cheese, cold and flavorless. Pork Adobe was like eating hard cow hide. Ambiance outside: 4 stars Breakfast food: 2 stars Dinner food: 3 stars Value: 3 stars

This is an odd place to me. It looks as if it's one HUGE food court at one glance, but I looked at…read morethe menu and it turns out it's just one place altogether. If anything I ordered here was extraordinary, it would be the iced tea. I just can't forget the reaction of my sister to the face I made after just one sip. She laughed so hard the entire lunch we've spent in Makan! Okay, let me describe to you their perfect iced tea. It's not instant for sure. I can taste the lovely bitterness of the tea leaves this was extracted from. It almost tasted like a real fresh, literal tea with ice. Even the slight flavor of lemon sweetened by honey was oh-so delicious. It was the most perfect Iced tea I ever had in the Philippines! Oh, they also have an awesome Bagoong Rice. And pad thai that has sorta "kunat" nuts. But mostly, you can come here for the iced tea. It's just perfect.