There’s a new korean place located at the 3rd floor of Greenbelt 5, Makati – Bulgogi Brothers. It’s the first franchise outside of korea and was brought in by the Bistro group. If you have their discount card, you can already use it there.

Bulgogi Brothers just opened and they have staff from Korea to guide the locals how its done for one whole month. The service was great considering that they just started out. They were very helpful and pleasant. The food took a while but they were very apologetic and made sure to update you on the status of your order, so that’s why I still think that the service was great. I did hear a couple of tables complaining but as long as they handled it I see it as the usual opening gitters. If the people serving are still smiling and is still there to take on all the complaints, then that’s good service in my book. The attitude counts for a lot. The delays and mix ups are operational and can easily be fixed in my opinion.

With regards to the place, it was cozy, you hear korean songs and see korean videos on the screens.

Moving on to the food. I don’t exactly know their names so I’m just gonna describe each. We tried the tofu dish, dobu or something and it was good. We ordered a kimchi soup, and if you like kimchi, this ones for you. We also ordered a seafood dish, it was spicy and if you know me, I love spicy. We also had a fried dimsum dish which was by accident coz it was lost in translation. We took it anyway, and it was good. Its seafood too by the way. Now for the bulgogi. We ordered the seoul style bulgogi that’s good for 6 people and it was G double O-D good. You can ask for extra broth. Yum yum. Pang kanin talaga. Hahaha. They cooked it right in front of you. Sort of worth the wait but don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll be able to speed things up in the kitchen soon.

Anyway, the seoul style bulgogi wasn’t the star of the night. My brother was curiuos about the bulgogi burger and ordered it when asked if he wanted dessert. Haha. Nice! They cooked the bulgogi beef patty right in front of you while the fries and the rest of the items that make up the burger waited on the sidelines. It sizzled good while the korean server cooked it with care. Smells good too. I’ve never tasted a burger like it. It was brilliant!

So there, monster rates this as an excellent dining adventure. Ask for Micah, she was very pleasant and even wrote us a thank you note. Good job

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888 bucks. Lots of foood. Shrimps, crabs, roast beef, shawarma, dimsum, pasta, burgers, shabu shabu, kebabs, satay. . . Need I say anything else? Just check out the pics. Bow.

Vikings is located on the far right by the bay just outside the grounds of mall of asia.

You should call in advance and reserve a table. Puno eh!

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We ordered Chapchae (or was it japchae? let me know) glass noodles and bibimbap – yum yum.  The one thing that striked me the most was the rock bowl.  I’m not sure what it was called exactly but it definitely kept my food hot.  I was already done eating and the bowl was still hot!  Amazing!  Imagine serving our very own sisig on this hot rock plate… oooh.

Does it taste good?  Oh hell yeah.

Anyway, here are some pics to get you started:

Bibimbap

Chap Chae

Contact information:

757-4031 / 728-1454

Level 1, Greenbelt 2 beside Cyma, Makati

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Branches and contact info:

1. Powerplant Mall – Rockwell: 898-0934 to 35
2. The Podium: 635-6833
3. Jupiter: 899-0640
4. SM Megamall: 636-4635
5. Robinsons Place: 522-7924
6. Paseo Center: 893-7902

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Are you ready? Here’s how I did it…

Ingredients:

• Sukiyaki Beef – the ones pre-packed at rustans or waltermart will set you back around 120 bucks but that much can serve up to 4
• Sesame oil
• Sesame Seeds
• Soy Sauce
• Brown Sugar
• Garlic
• Salt and Pepper

How:

Try separating the sukiyaki beef a bit and put into a bowl. Add the soy sauce, just enough so that the meat gets covered. Add a tablespoon of sesame oil or even less – it has a powerful flavor. I also decided to heat some sesame seeds on a pan to get the flavor our, set it aside and added it to the mix. Next, half clove of garlic – minced, around 2 tablespoons of brown sugar, and some salt and pepper to taste. Mix it a bit.

Set it aside – cover your bowl or do it like me where I mix everything on a plastic container that comes with a cover so I can shake it up with the sealed cover. You’ll need to leave it alone for about 30 minutes.

While your waiting, you can do one of my favorite side dishes which compliments the bulgogi well — bean sprouts (togue) with sesame oil.

Here’s what you need:

• Bean sprouts – one plastic at the grocery is around Php25 and that is all you need
• Carrots
• Green Bell Pepper
• Sesame oil and seeds
• Garlic
• Salt and pepper

Now here’s how you do to take out the bitter taste of bean sprouts. Heat some water on a pan and just guesstimate that if you add your bean sprouts they can all get soaked in it. Pour in the bean sprouts when it starts boiling and turn down the heat or better yet just turn it off – just let the bean sprouts soak in there for a while. After probably 2-3 minutes, drain it out. Be careful to not let it sit there with the hot water for a long time because we want to retain a bit of that crunch. After draining it, just set to the side.

Next you need to heat a bit of oil in a pan, throw in your minced garlic, carrots and bell pepper cut into strips (just for color), sesame seeds, and then throw in your bean sprout. Mix it all up in high heat because you will want to cook this quickly. Add in a few drops of sesame oil followed by salt and pepper to taste. You’re done! Great side dish to go with your bulgogi.

Time for the bulgogi…

If you’re not big on prep work then like me, you probably spent a few more minutes cutting up the ingredients used for the bean sprout side dish. Good move because at least you didn’t have idle time when the bulgogi was marinating.

Cooking the beef bulgogi is the easiest part, heat a pan and throw it all in there. Can you smell it? Yummy.. it takes less than 5 minutes for this version of the bulgogi to cook because we used sukiyaki beef and as you all know it gets cooked in a blink of the eye.

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