The Late Yakimix Valentines Date

My original plan was to take Rein dinner in either Yakimix or Saisaki back in February 14 for valentine’s day of course, but a disaster strikes, an effin bells palsy slaps and distorted the left side of my face. Currently, I am 70-80% recovered from the bells palsy and I will just waste your time with my bells palsy story probably in the next entry. Since I am in a way functional and I finally got to bring Rein for a late valentines date,  I want to talk about our little dinner in a restaurant called Yakimix. You may consider this my first restaurant review in blog format.

Japanese foods, not WTF

So we went to Yakimix at SM Mall of Asia and as expected, the place was already packed. We waited for our turn and fortunately, the turnaround was unexpectedly faster and the table was already neatly polished before we laid down our tired butts on the chairs. Yakimix is kind of the love child of Saisaki for their Japanese buffet goodness and Tong Yang for their on the table grille complete with a piece of a tong wherein you can act like one of the overacting Japanese Iron Chefs and their chairman.

Iron Chef Chairman: The Final boss of food

I for one, absolutely loved Japanese food even if they have a lot of what the fuck moments over there but their collection of food concoctions is the best. The very first set I graciously munched was a big plate of every sushi available at the buffet area. I am a glutton when it comes to sushi. Even if the sushi creation was not a familiar one, I will still try to eat it.

Fish are friends

There is something about sushi that I absolutely love. Back when I was younger, I can eat more than 2 plates of sushi before heading to the main course. Now, one big plate is good enough for me. Afterward we start collecting our choices of fresh meat and seafood in the buffet area and placed it in our grill set up in the middle of our table. Good thing the machine is smoke less and the noise of the grill is not distracting.

Failed Iron Chef

Just like in Tong Yang, your tummy starts screaming profanity while you wait for your food doing his self grilling thing before shoving up in your mouth in full force, of course, in delight. The result of each grill is, in an over acting expert food blogger term, exquisite. Every meat and seafood we threw in the grill came out good, just right and in another over acting food blogger term, ambrosial.

I am cooking, I am cooking

We end the dinner by munching  lavish and mouth-watering desserts. They offer a good variety of desserts like cakes, ice creams, salads, fruits and ice pops. I ate strawberry and mango ice cream while Rein indulged in fruits. In the end, we enjoyed eating at Yakimix. The only thing that I did not like is their first serving of the drinks. We already finished the sushi set yet our ordered drinks have not arrived yet. Our drinks arrived before we head to our main course and from that, the waiters are kind of refill addicts wherein you just drank 10% of your drink, they will immediately teleport behind you and refills your drink. Maybe a minor annoyance but a good compensation for their slow first drinks service.

Overall, me and Rein highly recommend Yakimix. I spent around 1,300 for both of us and I think the price was just right, just be ready because the restaurant, in all branches are notorious fully packed even in early hours.