Seeing signs and billboards of Sambo Kojin around the north made me ask the question “Is it good there?”. But for how many months of wondering, I’ve never got the chance to try only until one of our family friends invited us to have dinner. And that was to celebrate Grandpa’s birthday last week. So it was like, “Finally!”, my curiosity will not forever be locked up anymore.

Upon entering Sambo Kojin, we noticed how ‘strict’ they were. It was like entering an executive village wherein they had to make their customers stay at the lobby first. When we arrived, we told them that our friends were already upstairs. So what they did, the lady at the front desk had to use her walkie-talkie to tell one of their workers upstairs that we were on our way up already.

As soon as we found our table, where our friends were, we didn’t think twice but checked out the buffet table right away. Tita Maris (lady in the picture) accompanied us and gave us a little orientation about Sambo Kojin. By the way, she doesn’t work there. She’s just a frequent customer of almost all branches of Sambo Kojin.

This is the buffet table where all the cooked dishes are. It includes Chinese, Japanese and Korean cuisine. I tried almost everything on that table (except for pork dishes). Korean cuisine isn’t my type at all. But when I tried them at Sambo Kojin, I think I’m beginning to appreciate them now.

 I was tempted to get desserts first but I had to do it the ‘proper’ way. No choice but to save desserts for the last (but not the least). If you have been following my Twitter, you would see one of my photos with their butterscotch fudge bars. I guess I had about 5 of them despite eating in a buffet. It wasn’t ‘nakakaumay’ at all!

 I wasn’t able to take a photo of the table where all the raw meat were. In Sambo Kojin, you can choose to select “ready-to-cook” types of meat. Here in the photo, you can see that we are heating up the meat that we got from the buffet table. Some of them were marinated in bbq sauce, some were flavored with garlic bits, etc. I am telling you, there were tons of “ready-to-cook” meat to choose from – beef, lamb, pork, chicken, seafood, etc.

Your cooked meat will be more tasty when you dip it in any of these sauces. For me, I liked the Sambo Kojin sauce and their Teriyaki sauce mixed with Spicy sauce. Well, you have 6 choices. You can try them all and see for yourself which one is suitable for your taste buds.

 This is Mandy’s dessert plate. The single marshmallow with chocolate (fondue) made it look artistic.

 A dinner with this kid makes each night memorable. I love hanging out and playing with Mandy because of her comic personality. Just take a look at our photos! 🙂

 Mandy felt it was her birthday also. Haha! Well every kid is like that. Every time they see a cake with candles, they feel responsible for blowing the candles.

Happy Birthday Grandpa! 🙂 We love you!

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Location: 201 Edsa, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Contact: (+632) 726-4466 / (+632) / 726-4520 / (+63) 917-896-4465

Website: http://sambokojin.com/

Budget: PHP600++

Rate:

Food	8/10
Ambiance	8/10
Service	8/10
Cost	8/10
Overall	8/10