Zengo

Visits: 14 February 2017, lunch
Taste: 4/5
Cost performance: 4/5
Location: Kempinski Residences & Suites

Had an Express Lunch here.
QAR 95, very good value, we got five items from Soup/Salad, Appetizer, Main Course, Side Dishes, and Desert.

Nice location in 61th floor of the tallest building in Doha, nice interior design.
Good service.
Water and soft drink were included in the package, but not coffee/tea.

Dean & David

Visits: 2 February 2017, 7pm
Taste: 3/5
Cost performance: 2/5
Location: Ezdan Hotel ground floor outside

The staff was pissed off by other customer so he was in bad mood when receiving my order.
 Ordered the not spicy yellow scampi (prawn) curry, set with salad and soft drink for QAR 57.
This was my third time here, not really happy with this place now.


Visit: 4 August 2016, 9pm
Taste: 4/5
Cost performance: 4/5
Location: Ezdan Hotel ground floor outside (other location in Pearl Qatar)

Ordered a curry set, with salad and drink for QAR 57.
Nice and simple decoration, labelled itself as a healthy food restaurant.
And nice menu too.
There is a menu for choose your own salad.
The Thai curry I ordered was OK and quite filling.

Noodle House

Last visits: 3 February 2017, lunch
Taste: 4/5
Cost performance: 2/5
Location: City Center, Ground Floor

Their location is the best location in the Mall, just in the main entrance.
I love eating Laksa.
They have 2, one called Curry Laksa, the other called Katong Laksa.
I tasted both but could not tell the difference.

They are not cheap, but the taste is good.
And the menu is good too.

I cannot find other place in Qatar selling Laksa, so when I want to eat one, I always come here.
They have other branches in Pearl Qatar and Landmark Plaza.

Pearl of Beirut in Al Khor

Visit: 25 November 2016, lunch
Taste: 4/5
Cost performance: 5/5
Location: Al Khor, in front of the fish market

Quite a while, didn't come to this restaurant.
Ensured again that this place was good.
My colleague was also happy with this place.
My favorites were Beef Sisig, Mie Goreng, Kangkong.
I didn't like the Nasi Goreng.
The Grilled Salmon was bit too rare, then they replaced with a new one when we reported, and the manager apologized sincerely, wanted to give for free if we hadn't already paid yet.

Filipino Community Center

Last visits: 2 September 2016, dinner
Taste: 2/5
Cost performance: 4/5
Location: Najma Street, behind Kahrama Awareness Park

Visited a friend living in this area, then wanted to find a place to eat nearby, opened the Google Map and found this place.
It is indeed a community center for Filipino expats, but also double as a restaurant of Filipino food.
There was no other eating guests when we arrived there at around 7pm.
We ordered Bulalo (beef bone soup), which was OK, and Sisig (minced meat with egg on a hot plate, QAR 25) and white rice.
The white rice was not well cooked, too soft.
And the beef Sisig was not that yummy.
Spent QAR 64 in total, for 2 persons.

Pearl of Beirut in Al Khor

Visit: 21 August 2016, dinner
Taste: 4/5
Cost performance: 5/5
Location: Al Khor, in front of the fish market

Been here many times.
Despite of its name, they don't sell Arabic food, it sells Filipino and Indonesian food.

This night, the Indonesian chef was off, so there were no Indonesian food.
So we ordered Filipino Sisig (we ordered chicken and beef), tempura (fried shrimp), tofu, grilled fish, fried rice, fried noodle (chow mien), goat satay, chili shrimp.
We were 6 persons and spent QAR 345.

Tempura

Fried Tofu

Fried Chow Mien

Chili Shrimp

Goad Satay

Grilled Fish

Max's (Filipino Chain Restaurant)

Visit: 11 August 2016, dinner
Taste: 4/5
Cost performance: 4/5
Location: Al Saad, very close to Royal Plaza

While I know since long time about Filipino famous chain restaurants Chowking and Jolly Bee, even I dined in those two restaurants when I traveled the Philippines, I never hear about this restaurant Max's.

Reading about this restaurant before going there, then found out they are also famous chain restaurant in the Philippines, especially for the fried chicken.

So my Filipino friend took me there, and I was happy with the new finding.
I like the menu selection and the waiter service, they all were so polite, attentive, friendly and smiley.

Here was our order:
- Fresh lumpiang ubod, QAR 18 --> good
- Beef Caldereta, QAR 44 --> like Indonesian Rendang, but Rendang is better
- Chicken Sisig, QAR 30 --> I like the one in Pearl of Beirut in Al Khor
- Plain rice, QAR 7
- Buko pandan, QAR 10 --> ice cream with pandan leave jelly and coconut sauce
- Large Water Bottle, QAR 8

Next time would like to try Karekare and their famous fried chicken.

Spice Market

Last visits: 5 August 2016, Friday brunch (12:00-16:00)
Taste: 4/5
Cost performance: 4/5
Location: W Hotel

First time I took Friday Brunch in this restaurant, which got high rating on Zomato and Trip Advisor.
Soft beverages package is QAR 295, and alcohol package is QAR 410.
With other 10 Japanese friends we took the alcohol package.

The food, there are about 7 food stations.
One live cooking station on pad thai (noodle).
Then my favorite was Japanese corner, with nigiri sushi (only salmon and tuna) and roll sushi, including my favorite the crispy fried one. There were also tempura and fish tataki.
The Korean was only bibimba and one beef meal.
Several curries.
The yamcha was only shrimp wonton, siumai and custard bean.
The desert corner was huge with roll ice live cooking.

For the drink, we started with sparkling wine.
Then I ordered glass wine, while others ordered beer (only bottled Tiger beer was available).
We ordered also some cocktails, like margarita and mojito (strange orange mojito).

Though it is expensive, I think we all are satisfied with the food and the drink.