Mr Eats

15/07/2025

Delicious breakfast. Fried Tamban and Eggs.
Tip. Make small incisions with very small gaps on the flesh of the fish. This fish is notoriously bony, the incisions shortens the bony strands which gives it a more pleasant eating experience, especially when fried to a golden crisp. This fish is one of the more underrated and cheaply priced variety, but is actually superior in terms of taste, texture, and flavor when cooked right. If you see a big one its perfect for grilling, the amount of fat its got on its scales is amazing.

29/05/2025

Perfect for sawsawan.
Siling duwag of the ilocos. Siling kinalabaw. Siling espada. Marusot, assorted super hots.

18/03/2025

Beef Tenderloin. Garlic Butter. Pommes Aligot.

04/02/2025

01/01/2025

What a colorful year it was, just like this halo halo raw material stall in this wet market in the south. To a more colorful year ahead 🎉

04/11/2024

My small vision board

25/10/2024

That one and only episode that got me really hungry at 1am and I just had to give in with quality junk combo #1.
Imho/tbh grand maison tokyo is just so, so, so much better than this culi wars series. But I did finish this series for the sake of it. But not without sleeping through with some of the eps.

01/07/2024

If you know. You know.

29/06/2024

18/06/2024

One of the best Father's Day gifts I received. Hinog na!
Bigger than my face, bigger than my hands!

01/05/2024

the only platter worth gaining for.

19/12/2023

This is the spiciest offering (according to our server)of Ramen Yushoken in molito alabang. Part of their "secret menu". The miso based spicy tsukemen , lots of chopped red chillies, bean sprouts, tofu, and melt in your mouth pork pieces.
Mr. Eats reacts.
It was really thick for the first 15 minutes and got thinner towards the end which I find a bit unusual for a tsukemen.
It was so beautiful the moment it arrived at our table, bright spicy red that glistens like sunset and lava combined.
It got even more and more beautiful when I started mixing it exposing the fiery red hot chilis. I like spicy and really spicy food, as in spicy like hell torture, so this one got me really excited.
Thickness ✔️
Spicy Dangerous Appearance ✔️
Flavor.....

There were two things that prevailed on my taste buds.
1. It was spicy but just on a normal, normal, level.
2. Slightly Acidic. Even though I say slightly, it was always there, lingering, henceforth it was prevailing

The side flavor notes.
There was umami but I kept longing for more, it was thick and rich but not as rich as the other flavors, it was lacking a lot of right buttons. I think the bean sprouts after awhile watered down the dipping sauce which made it less and less intense by the minute.
The chopped fresh chillies were the only ones contributing to the good flavors every time I would bite through them.
The great deep miso flavours were somehow lost in translation unlike their other miso based offerings which were always a home run. This was not a home run. Sadly. No fireworks. Just a very personal opinion so I can be totally wrong.
This is one of the very, very few times I got underwhelmed eating here at my favourite ramen shop.
I got so underwhelmed I want to go back right away and order some of my favourite fool proof flavors just to have a ramen revenge to satisfy my umami and cholesterol cravings.
I always try anything that is new in their "secret menu" and today was a rare occasion where I wasn't so... I wasn't blown away. Yes, it makes me really sad, like a food depression, but I have to move and learn from this very important lesson.

P.S. The noodles were great and bouncy.
I shall return.