Vikings Create Your Own Buffet at Home

Who else have not celebrated any of their special occasions at Vikings? It's the most popular restaurant for birthday celebrations for good reasons - the wide variety of food in their buffet spread, international selections from Japanese to Mediterranean cuisines, sumptuous desserts and unlimited drinks including beer.

 

But with the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in place, and I think well after the restrictions are lifted and we begin our new normal, we either have to cook or have food trays delivered for our small private celebrations. Sadly, buffet restaurants will have to step aside until a vaccine is found.

 

The good news is Vikings is also shifting their business to adapt to this challenging situation. They now accept food orders via home delivery service so we can create our own buffet at home for a price of only Php600 per head.

 

For a minimum of 5 persons, you can have:

 

 

Here's what our orders look like

 

Buttered veggies, mashed potato and paella
 

 

Main course -  Roasted Angus Beef Belly, Sliced Roasted Lamb and Binusog na Lechon. All cooked perfectly well and delicious.

 

Our other two main courses - Buttered Shrimp and Shrimp Tempura. The hakaw is from the appetizer selection.

 

 

From the salad selection, who chose Greek Salad and Macaroni Salad

 

Super sulit to have chosen this as one of the appetizers. Look at the generous serving...

 

Assorted cold cuts

 

Assorted maki and sushi - highly recommended!

I didn't take photos of the 2 cakes as our table is already full but we had the Macapuno Pandan and Purple Yam (ube) cakes.
 

If you are ordering for a birthday, just send the celebrant's ID to avail of the 4+1 Birthday Promo. It means you'll only be paying Php2400 for the 15 dishes they will be delivering.

Enjoy!

DIY Cheese Fountain (for Nachos Buffet)

Just because it's called Chocolate Fountain does it mean we can only use it for chocolates? Certainly not!

During our New Year's party at the office, I decided to skip the usual chocolate fountain and instead try doing a cheese fountain for our nachos buffet.

My colleagues were pleasantly surprised to see the very inviting bright yellow fluid flowing through but what made them even more surprised was when they learned how easy it was to make the cheese dip.

There's no secret to it, really. All you need is a good old cheese spread (I used Cheez Whiz), fresh milk and a microwave oven. That's it!

Procedure:

 

1. Empty a jar of cheese spread (plain, do not use the one with pimiento) in a microwaveable container.

 

2. Pour 1/2 cup of milk on the cheese spread and mix. Expect that the mixture will not be smooth but rather lumpy.

 

3. Put the mixture in the microwave for 3 minutes in medium high setting.

 

4. Remove and stir. The cheese spread should now have a smoother consistency and should easily mix with the milk.

 

5. Keep stirring while the mixture is still hot. If still lumpy, stir in more milk and  put back in the microwave for another 3 minutes. Do this process until the desired consistency is achieved. The reason why microwave only for short period is to avoid burning the cheese.

 

6. Pour into the fountain and enjoy!

 

If you have a double broiler then melting the cheese and mixing with milk is a lot easier as you can see the 'output' as you go along. There's also less chance of burning the cheese.

 

Enjoy!