A Food Review of Tokyo Table That's About Food Movies

Problem: You want the best value for your money, and that's why you only buy Shitake Mushrooms Chicharon from now on 

because the best Chicharon you can buy is the one that's not killing you when you eat one. 

You crawl through blogs in Cebu Blogging Community because you look for the best movies that feature Filipinos, best restaurants that recognize vegan diet, best activities to do in Siquijor, best smartphones that were not made by underpaid laborers, and even best bakeries that sell Malunggay Bread because Malunggay helps you become Channing Tatum. (Tip: Go to Healthy U Vegan Resto).

You see yourself as an intelligent consumer, and you deem it your duty to always buy the most forward-thinking and least nature-damaging items, from cosmetics to laundry soap to Japanese food. You even bought the iPhone because you're told that Steve Jobs was the best. 

You always want the best in the market. You even read David Foster Wallace and James Salter, because you read from Time Magazine that they're the Best Novelists of The 21st century. You read them, loved them, and you want more of them.

Now you caught yourself Googling for the Best Japanese Restaurant In Cebu City, because:

1. You want to taste The Best Japanese Food in Town.

2. You tried the Lutong Hapon from Joed's, and you realized that it had charged you way too much for their kind of Japanese Food that must've been prepared by an uninspired, ready-to-die cook who seems to hate the world so much, that s/he translates that hatred into the mouths of customers.

What do you do?

Solution: Visit Tokyo Table at City Times Square Parkmall for the following reasons:

Play The Video Below To Know What You're Missing

PROS OF EATING AT TOKYO TABLE

1. Tokyo Table is an Unlimited Ramen Place, Unlimited Yakiniku Place, Unlimited Shabu-Shabu Place, Unlimited Sushi Place, Unlimited Pho Place, Unlimited Cheesecake Place, Unlimited Blueberry Place. Ad infinitum. 

Tokyo Table is an Unlimited Food Place for a price that barely limits your budget. If infinity is not enough of a factor for you to consider Tokyo Table (or any place for that matter) the best, then please e-mail me at bisayawriter(@)gmail(dot)com because there might be a problem with you and I can offer psychosocial help in the form of movie recommendations.

2. Tokyo Table is The Good Kind of Unlimited While Your Internet Speed Is The Bad Kind of Unlimited.

You read David Foster Wallace book on The Theory of Infinities and Unlimited, and you learned that some infinities are better than others and you agree with this because you're a walking proof that the Infinite Internet offered by phone networks doesn't feel unlimited at all. 

In fact, you believe that the only Unlimited in your Internet is THE UNLIMITED WAITING TIME for The Facebook Page to Load because the internet speed is so slow, it almost makes you cry. 

But you don't complain because ungratefulness makes you fat, and you agree with Louis C.K. in his "Everything is Amazing, No One Is Happy Theory" that if you're so ungrateful for your phone provider, then build your own internet company so you can stop being a non-contributing leech. Good luck with that.

That said, Tokyo Table is The Good Kind of Unlimited because unlike Unlimited Internet, the only thing slowing you down in Tokyo Table when you devour as much Healthy Salad and Invigorating Char Siu Ramen as you can stomach, is you and your weak stomach. 

Your doctor can also prove that the array of Tokyo Table Protein-rich Cold Cuts  peppered with turmeric and ginger are healthy for you and for your sex life. Need more Omega 3 in your body? Tokyo Table serves freshest Omega3 Salmon, too.

Need help for your heart to grow out of heartbreak?  Fresh Natural Raw Seafood that helps in neurogenesis or in the process of cell formation is in Tokyo Table.

3. I Will Put My Name Behind The Taste of Tokyo Table.

I know you're asking, 

"Dear Richard: I'm sold about the Unlimited Factor. But what about the taste? Maybe Tokyo Table is Unlimited because the taste is so bad, that you can only eat two sushi rolls and you're done? And how much are they paying you to worship their resto because I want to get paid, too, like you.

Nagmamahal,

Binay"

Before I reply, let me thank you first, Presidentiable Binay, for reading Bisaya Short Films and for promising to support all my short films..in my dreams.

Now, about the taste, let's just say that I read Jessica Zafra's Reputable "Best Ramen Restaurant In Town" and her First Prize goes to the Char Siu Ramen at Santoukka Hokkaido at SM Makati near Greenbelt 4.

I had so much respect for her Solid Endorsement that I went out of my way to Makati from Cavite to taste Hokkaido's Char Siu and Dear Gods Of Ramens and Holy Goodness, it is The Best Ramen I've Tasted in My Whole Existence. Until I tasted the Char Siu/Pork Ramen in Tokyo Table. 

The reason is simple: they taste almost alike in terms of the hearty/chewy-ness of the fresh ramen and the pork's melt-in-your mouth taste, but Hokkaido's around P450 for one "Justin Bieber" bowl and it's in Makati. 

Tokyo Table is P750 and it can be just one bicycle away from your home and the bowl size is "1000+ Manny Pacquiaos" Big. 

Other Tokyo Table Picks That I Will Put My Name Behind:

- Tokyo Table's Ebi Tempura that made me say "Mother of God" when I first had it.

- Tokyo Table's Spicy Okra Seafood and Sashimi Shrimps that made me say "I'm having everyday of this and is this shrimp soaked in butter overnight otherwise why is it creamy when it seems to be just boiled I can't believe this is not butter!?"

- Tokyo Table's Yakiniku Bacon Cuts that made me say, "Was this marinated overnight in Butter?"

- Their Dessert Selection that made me say, "I want to be buried here".

BONUS POINTS:

1. City Times Square where Tokyo Table is has the Parking Space that will remind you of Batman's Wide Expanse Parking Space for his Bat Mobile in The Dark Knight, but City Times is less lit than Batman's. But still, being compared to Batman is huge compliment.

2. Tokyo Table closes at 10pm-ish, so you can go there alone at 6pm, bring a book, eat and read and write your novel, and make love with the food because food understands and your ex doesn't.

3. Tokyo Table can house as many customers as 1/10 of the supporters of #Aldub in one barangay, so it's perfect for huge crowds. Private Date Rooms are also available, so Alden and Yayadub should blend in Tokyo Table. #SaTamangPanahon

CONS OF EATING AT TOKYO TABLE

1. The only CON of my Tokyo Table experience was that I didn't get to try their Siomai and their Vegetable Siopao and probably more than half of what they had. Like every Bisaya Short Film, Tokyo Table deserves a second viewing.

Movie To Watch Inside Tokyo Table: 

"The Chef of South Polar"

because I saw it at a Japanese Film Festival and its food cinematography is so mouth-watering, 

you might as well wear a napkin to watch it.

P.S.

Dear Competition:

I wonder what you think of the Infinite Offerings of Tokyo Table and how you're addressing the challenge. In the words of Boy Abunda, I am open to hear your side. Usap tayo. And by usap, I mean the bisaya word for chewing.

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