MLA Top Food Restaurant - Makati

It's a Valentines Day evening and me and my friends are looking for this Chinese Shabu Shabu Place. The place is a bit dark and I was not expecting to find a restaurant in the building. MLA Top Food Restaurant is located at the second floor of in the building just around Estrella and Chino Roces. Most of the customers here are Chinese when I visited the place and the owner I think is also Chinese. We just had our shabu shabu with pork, chicken, fish ball, lobster balls etc. we ordered half spicy and half sour broth. The spicy one is really spicy, really really spicy while the sour broth is just right. My personal rating for the restaurant: Food: 3.0 Service: 3.0 Place: 2.5 Happy Eating, Foodie Day Out foodiedayout.com

Taking over the spot that Coffee 8065 vacated, this restaurant in the building's second floor quietly established itself in the neighborhood as an authentic Chinese food haunt. I'm saying this because when we ate here a few hours ago, about 80% of the diners in the surprisingly full restaurant are Chinese. If you know nothing about Chinese food, don't worry because the waitresses are very helpful and knowledgeable. We were advised that the hotpot, their specialty, would be too big for me and my wife, so we ordered 2 rice toppings (braised fish fillet and kung pao chicken) and minced meat eggplant. The fish fillet's sauce was good, however, we are not fans of cream dory so this is one that we won't order again. The king pao chicken looked simple but was fantastic. Usual Szechuan style uses carrots but this one was probably patterned after the Guangdong version that uses lightly pickled cucumbers instead of carrots, which lent a different kind of sweet-tartnesss that was refreshing. The eggplant dish was what we both expected, sauteed with leeks, bathed in oily soy sauce goodness. The place is easy to find; signs in Chinese are all over the building. Just follow the smell and you won't get lost. Up: Cheap, good food, helpful staff Down: May be full weekend nights. You might be charged for using the condiments if you don't order the hotpot. Best to ask the waitress.

Taking over the spot that Coffee 8065 vacated, this restaurant in the building's second floor quietly established itself in the neighborhood as an authentic Chinese food haunt. I'm saying this because when we ate here a few hours ago, about 80% of the diners in the surprisingly full restaurant are Chinese. If you know nothing about Chinese food, don't worry because the waitresses are very helpful and knowledgeable. We were advised that the hotpot, their specialty, would be too big for me and my wife, so we ordered 2 rice toppings (braised fish fillet and kung pao chicken) and minced meat eggplant. The fish fillet's sauce was good, however, we are not fans of cream dory so this is one that we won't order again. The king pao chicken looked simple but was fantastic. Usual Szechuan style uses carrots but this one was probably patterned after the Guangdong version that uses lightly pickled cucumbers instead of carrots, which lent a different kind of sweet-tartnesss... read more

It's a Valentines Day evening and me and my friends are looking for this Chinese Shabu Shabu Place. The place is a bit dark and I was not expecting to find a restaurant in the building. MLA Top Food Restaurant is located at the second floor of in the building just around Estrella and Chino Roces. Most of the customers here are Chinese when I visited the place and the owner I think is also Chinese. We just had our shabu shabu with pork, chicken, fish ball, lobster balls etc. we ordered half spicy and half sour broth. The spicy one is really spicy, really really spicy while the sour broth is just right. My personal rating for the restaurant: Food: 3.0 Service: 3.0 Place: 2.5 Happy Eating, Foodie Day Out foodiedayout.com

Taking over the spot that Coffee 8065 vacated, this restaurant in the building's second floor quietly established itself in the neighborhood as an authentic Chinese food haunt. I'm saying this because when we ate here a few hours ago, about 80% of the diners in the surprisingly full restaurant are Chinese. If you know nothing about Chinese food, don't worry because the waitresses are very helpful and knowledgeable. We were advised that the hotpot, their specialty, would be too big for me and my wife, so we ordered 2 rice toppings (braised fish fillet and kung pao chicken) and minced meat eggplant. The fish fillet's sauce was good, however, we are not fans of cream dory so this is one that we won't order again. The king pao chicken looked simple but was fantastic. Usual Szechuan style uses carrots but this one was probably patterned after the Guangdong version that uses lightly pickled cucumbers instead of carrots, which lent a different kind of sweet-tartnesss that was refreshing. The eggplant dish was what we both expected, sauteed with leeks, bathed in oily soy sauce goodness. The place is easy to find; signs in Chinese are all over the building. Just follow the smell and you won't get lost. Up: Cheap, good food, helpful staff Down: May be full weekend nights. You might be charged for using the condiments if you don't order the hotpot. Best to ask the waitress.