Rockwell and Podium Branches
A break from the Banawe Restaurant series
Gloria Maris has always been serving good chinese food since they started in the CCP complex area. Been eating here eversince. And it nevfer failed in delivering delicious chinese food.
Lately, it has been expanding to malls all around the metro. And I was glad that they are offering this buffet, so as soon as possible I went to the Rockwell branch to try it out.
Here it goes:
THe buffet is only avaialble from 230pm to 530pm. Costing P238 per person, it consist not only of dimsum but also of some hot dishes, rice and congee plus dessert like buchi and my favorite.. freshly made TAHO!!!
THe dimsum are cooked to order and they change every so often by the day.
Steam Spareribs-
perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned. very very tender
Chicken Feet-
tender pieces of chicken feet, not too thin and not fat, i love the red oily sauce they cooked the chicklen feet in.
Seafood Roll-
kani, shrimp, fish and squid rolled in sotanghon.. this was a filler. big and delicious.
Spinach dumpling-
lovely dimsum, the skin was thin and elastic and the filling was fresh with bits of prawns.
Radish cake-
pan fried, i love the contrast between the crispy exterior and the savory mashed radish inside of it.
Asado Siopao-
this was also good, hot and soft bun, yummy chopped meat inside.. i could eat 5 pieces of these things:)
Siomai-
this was the only letdown in the dimsum choices…it didnt look appetizing as the regular siomai they served ala carte. Tastewise, it wasnt also that good.
Congee-
topped with spring onions and fried wanton skins. the meat here is ground beef. it lack a little in taste. But the texture was perfect.
Fried rice-
this was good. mixed with a small dallop of chili garlic sauce… delicioso
Lumpiang shanghai and chicken w brocolli-
the lumpiang shanghai was just okay, the chicekn and brocolli was good, the brocolli was cooked perfectly, it still has the crunch and maintain the fantastic color
TAHO–
yummy yummy taho,.. topped with the arnibal and lots and lots of tiny tapioca balls:)
the P238 tag price was indeed worth it, try it, they serve this till the end of the month of September. dont forget.. only at Rockwell and
Podium branch…:)