WHOLE GIANT TUNA! All You Can Eat SEAFOOD BUFFET in Manila Philippines

Guys, Mike Chin here in Manila. Um, tonight I'm going to a buffet I've been wanting to go to for a while. Getting here was a trek. Apparently, there's this ginormous boulevard where traffic just just does not move. So to get here had to walk about half an hour and then take the train. And now here I am I think and this buffet is located inside the Shanganger. A few minutes later. Okay, finally at the hotel itself. Oh, here it is. Welcome to Heat Buffet. Oh my gosh. Seriously, they have a whole tuna over here. Wow. Look at that sushimi. It's first time I've ever seen a ginormous whole tuna at a buffet before. There's blue crab, ginormous prawns, muscles, shrimp. There's tons of sushi, nigiri, a lot of seafood salad. This is the India section. There's also fresh scallops. Oh, look at this. A seafood boil. Nice. There's a tray of what looks like smoked salmon or salmon. There's ribeye. Wow, that looks juicy. Yorkshire pudding. There's chicken. Everything is grilled fresh in the back. For drinks, you get unlimited iced tea or lemonade. There's a noodle station. You can build your own bowl of noodles with shrimp or muscles. Right behind that is the salad bar, smoked salmon, cured meats, sear tuna. That looks good. Bunch of cheese, breads, freshly fried tempora. There's local delicacies, local sweets, be different types of local rice cakes. There's a station where there's whole roast fish. Wow. Three different types of giant roast fish. There's a whole lechon section as well. Oh my gosh. Look at those. Look at this monster fish. Oh, this pizza looks really good, too. Look at that nice crust. There's a little bowl of seafood paella. Oh my gosh, that's an entire ginormous octopus. There's also a ton of local dishes like freshly fried prawns. There's looks like fried shomai. There's buns. More fish. There's rice. Pork assado. That looks good. There's soy sauce chicken as well. Oh my gosh, look at this. More ginormous fish. So, I guess you can just pick out your fish that you want and then I guess they cook the fillet for you. Never seen something like this on a buffet before. First time. And then the middle is all about the sweets. You can of course make your own halo halo. There's different types of ice cream fruits. There's churros, fried suman, camote fries. I think they make crepes here. There's a cotton candy machine. And on the opposite side of the desserts, look at this. This is all plant-based dishes. Well, mostly plant-based dishes. So, I never seen a buffet with so much fish before. There's a ton of seafood items. And tonight, well, it's a Friday, so seafood night tonight. That's why there's so much seafood items out there. But wow, that's pretty impressive. And there are a lot of healthy dishes, I think, because I think heat stands for healthy eating. Amazing taste, if I got it correct. All right, let's go eat. Start with the seafood. Baked scallops for sure. Grab some shrimp. This corn looks good. Blue crab for sure. All right, my first place. I just went and got some seafood. This is the sauce I'm supposed to dunk my uh seafood boil into, I think. So, I got some seafood boil, some freshly grilled salmon, some baked scallops. These are the nice size scallops. Little cold, but that's delicious. That's so cheesy and nice. And the scallop roll. Oh, that's creamy. seafood boil. Look at this. Dunk the blue crab in there. That's the meatiest part of the crab right there. Oh yeah. This is all such gorgeous crab meat. Giving her a dunk. This is good. This crab boil is awesome. Actually tastes like a Cajun crab. It's spicy. It's got all that nice Cajuny kick. The crab is so so so soft and tender. Also, yeah, that seasoning definitely has a kick. Shrimp is good. Corn is delicious. For me, whenever I eat a seafood boil, I got to get corn. This thing just soaks up so much the nice spices. Also, check this out. Freshly grilled salmon. Look at this. This thing is all sorts of spiced up. Oh, this tastes like black and salmon. It's really good. It's tender. It's juicy. That little toasty bits from the fire and the grill. That's really good fish. All right, round two. Oh, I totally missed this. So, you take the tuna and they grill it for you. Okay, I'll take a grilled tuna. So, besides grilling my tuna, I also got some of the ribeye. Add some mushroom sauce on top of that. Oh, I totally didn't see the pepper sauce. Add some of this, too. Why not? And then after the fish is grilled, add some salt and pepper. Look at that ginormous shrimp. Wow. Oh my gosh, look at this monster. All right, so I'm so excited for this. Let me try out my steak first, though. So, I got a little surf and turf on this plate. Rabby steak, some grilled tuna, and this ginormous prawn. That's not a bad steak. That steak is nice and tender. I like the mushroom sauce. I definitely like that pepper sauce, too. Especially in the middle. That's such a tender piece of steak. This is cool, too. Freshly grilled tuna. Yeah, this looks like it's cooked pretty well. That's wonderful. This tuna tastes so fresh. I'm so glad this wasn't overcooked. Juicy, tender. Add a little salt and pepper. Oh, it's perfect. Now, let's get to this. Look at this thing. Break it open. Definitely suck on that head. Oh, yeah. Oh. Unfortunately, that tail is definitely overcooked. That's a shame. That was such a beautiful shrimp. Yeah, that tail was really, really tough and dry. All right, I feel like I got to get some of the chan um before that thing dries out. I'm the first person digging into this fish, so hopefully it's not going to be really dry cuz it's been sitting under the buffet lamp of death for a while now. There's also fried fish. And look at this ginormous salmon. Okay, this thing looks nice and juicy. This fish might be a little dry, too. So, this plate I got bunch of the giant fish and then some of the lechon. The fried fish looks pretty good with some tartar sauce. That's not bad. It's crispy. It's flavored well. Pretty good. I am really worried about the fish that I got. This definitely looks a little dry. Yeah, it's dry. Oh, it's so dry. As soon as I was digging into this fish, I could tell it's just been sitting under the lamp of death for a while. That's so dry. The salmon looks really good, though. Salmon is really good. Salmon is awesome, actually. It's tender. It's juicy. Add a little tartar sauce to my salmon. That is a beautiful, delicate bite of fish. Speaking of beautiful and delicate, my lechon looks awesome. Look at this thing. Dunk it in some liver sauce. M. The lon is so awesome. Wow. And look at the crispy skin. Wow. I think it's so light. Love it. I think in the Philippines, probably the only place in the world, if I see a whole roast pig, I can't wait to get some and it's probably going to be amazing. Not true basically anywhere else, especially Las Vegas. So good. The meat is good. The skin is so light and crispy. Oh, this is going to be a good piece right here. Oh, yeah. Best piece. Best piece. fatty. So crispy. Oh man, that's some melt in your mouth. Grilled pork right there. Oh, that was good. Lan. So far, I think the best thing on the buffet, the ribeye steak, the lchan is phenomenal. The grilled tuna is so good. The whole salmon is delicious. Let's go for round three. This is all different types of rice. There's red rice, garlic. Oh, that garlic rice looks good. Oh, that looks like really fluffy garlic rice. Shwarma looks good with some fried fish. This is all seafood you can grow as well. What I love about buffets here in the Philippines, they're so flexible. They really want to make you happy, make you enjoy your food. So, I I see a lot of people just going up there with plates of shrimp and just asking them to cook it in all sorts of different ways. Apparently, they'll do that for you. This fried fish looks good. That's really dry. Let's try this. This is um ging I think it's called. This is vegetables cooked in coconut milk. Eat some of that over garlic rice. That is a marvelous dish. I could go for a whole plate of that. Snappy green beans. Spicy fragrant coconut milk. Incredible. Also got a schwarma cuz why not? Oh, it's a fish schwarma. If that wasn't a little dry, that'd be pretty darn good. I think my grilled fish is ready. Oh, nice. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, got more grilled fish. I got a snapper and I think a tilapia. I think this is the snap right here. Wa! Oh my gosh, this looks so good. Mo, it smells so good, too. That's awesome. That's a good grill fish. You can see how juicy this thing is. The meat is firm yet tender every time you take a bite. All that juice from the fish just gushes out. Wow. This is a phenomenal grilled fish right here. You can definitely taste that. This thing just came off the grill. This is the tilapia. That's good, too. I like the snapper more. The grilled fish is probably some of the best things here. This is really interesting. I think this is a tuna canilo that they just made me. So, this is raw slices of tuna cooked in vinegar with some cucumbers, some chili, some ginger, some shallots. Wow, look at this. That's great. That's so tender and nice. Very vinegary. It's spicy. It tells so fresh. This is really, really good. All right, I got some muscles soup, some soy sauce, chicken, some pork adobo, some octopus, a ginormous prawn, and a built fish. When I was in China, this is something that my mom, my grandma cooked for me all the time. It's my favorite fish. Never seen on a buffet before. Muscle soup looks good. M. Oh, this is so good. This is my soup right here. Little briny. Definitely taste the scallions, some ginger in here. Also, it's got a good amount of heat. Oh my gosh, this is delicious. Muscle soup. Oh, 100%. Oh, it's such a delicious soup. All right, I think the octopus. Yeah, it's too too dry. Oh, man. That sucks. I was really looking forward to that octopus pork adobo. That's yummy. Soy sauce chicken is delicious as well. All right, I'm really looking forward to this. This is my favorite fish in the world. I love eating it because it's so easy to debone. It just has bones on either side of this body. So, just remove this and then there's just a rib in the middle. And what you can do is pretty much just pick it up and eat it like a rib. Oh yeah, this is so good. This thing is seasoned well. It's so meaty and tender. This is such a good fish to just grill or stew. And when I was little, my grandma just grilled these on the stove. A little sprinkle of salt. That's it to me. Best fish ever. All right, I'm really excited for this. Look at this fried monster. This is a massive massive prawn. I think the problem with seafood, if it sits at all, it just becomes really really dry. I think because tonight there's not that many people here, so the seafood dishes are sitting underneath the buffet lamp of death for an extra long time. It just comes out real dry. I think the flavor of the prawn is amazing. It's been sitting there too long. I wonder if it's because like this hotel is so hard to get to. It's almost impossible to take a taxi here. I went to the noodle station and got a bowl of beef noodle soup with some beef tendons, some eggs. That's really good. Not bad at all. A little on the light side, but nice and beefy. It's actually really welcoming to have some very light beefy broth. Noodles are good, too. It tastes like a very, very, very light bo of [ __ ] with super chewy noodles. I've been eyeing this tempura. Oh yeah. Freshly fried pip and hot tender sweet shrimp. Crispy batter on the outside. Oh, that's a pretty darn good tempura. They do a pretty darn good tempura here. I think I am nearing the end of the savory foods. At every buffet here in the Philippines, I always try out the pizza. This crust is probably one of my favorites. Also got some more steak. Going to go get some more lchan and then we'll hit up the dessert section. That steak is spectacular. A few moments later. No way. They got baked Alaska. All right, dessert time. They have this little mochi looking thing. It's the baked Alaska. Dessert looks pretty good. Oh, yeah. This chocolate cake is delicious. This is the chocolate hazelnut cake. Wow. Layer of chocolate on top. There's chocolate mousse, I think, in the middle. And it's sitting on a brownie. Oh, it's so good. Also got a raspberry cake. Not as good as the chocolate cake, but not bad. Chur is always good to have as well as the chocolate mousse. Oh, this is amazing. Dark, silky chocolate on the bottom, fluffy cloudlike chocolate on top. Oh, eating that makes you so happy. Also, I found this matcha cake. This one's just okay. It's just like angel cake with that matcha frosting. All right, this baked Alaska just kind of tastes like strawberry ice cream. The buffet also comes with cappuccino. Oh man, this is so nice. I'm just going to sit here and slowly enjoy my dessert. Drink my cappuccino. This might just be my favorite part of a buffet. When you're full and you start opening up your second stomach for the dessert, get some good coffee or tea. It's really a good cappuccino, by the way. Wow, they're so nice. They brought some mango over. Fresh mangoes. Wow. I was going to get some halo halo. I don't even need it. This is the best way to finish up the night. Fresh mangoes in the Philippines. Nothing like it. It's so juicy and sweet and aromatic. The last time I was in the Philippines, I was supposed to actually go to this buffet instead of Cafe Elong because I heard a lot about it and I was always curious what this buffet was like. But I think my favorite things in the buffet today, the steak, the lechon, all the grilled fish. Amazing. I do feel there was a lot of wow factors in this buffet, like the ginormous tuna, all the giant whole fish that's sitting up there. And of all those, the salmon was definitely the best one. The dessert's good, the mango's delicious. I have to say, though, unfortunately, there were quite a few seafood items that were a little too dry, was sitting out way too long. I mean, I guess if there's not enough people here, that's a problem that's very hard to solve because if nobody's eating the food, you want to waste the food. I think overall, it's a pretty good buffet. I think I would have liked to try it on different theme nights to see what it's like. So maybe next time. I do want to give a special thank you to all the staff that works here. Everybody is just so incredibly nice and attentive. Like every time I come back, my water glass is filled, my juice glass is filled, dirty plates taken away like every single time. And they brought me the mangoes. It's the nicest thing ever. And make sure to get a cappuccino at the end. That is delicious. Oh, totally forgot about the rice cakes. Be right back. Get some pico. This is awesome. Bo and cappuccino. That's a really good combination. I think I've pretty much been to all the major buffets that I really wanted to go to here in the Philippines. If there's another one that you guys think I should be going to, let me know in the comments below. And that wraps up another all you can eat buffet review here in the Philippines. As always, the information for this place listed down below for you guys. Thank you all so much for watching. Until we eat again, see you later. This is so I went to pay and they this never happened to me before, but they said that if I sign up for the Shanganger Awards, I get 25% off my bill. That sounds like a great deal. I I read about it a lot where people talk about I just never experienced it. So, yeah. 25% off. Nice.