Jozu - Tomas Morato

Location: toward the end of Tomas Morato, after Alex III and Burgoo but on the other side of the road
Cuisine: fake Japanese, a.k.a. Japanese fusion
Price: PP
Attire: Whatever you do, don't dress up

Straight to the long story because it's been so long since we ate there we can't remember what we had exactly -

The place looks incredibly retro especially for a Japanese restaurant. The sushi menu is different though not exactly break-through. We had the one described to have egg, unagi, cheese and we immediately associated it with Ichiban Boshi's unagi sandwich (yum) but it turned out to be a lumpia sushi, with minimal traces of unagi. The uni sashimi was ok, obviously bought from nearby fuji-mart @ 300php per tub. There was this tofu something that was not agedashi tofu, but also fried except with sweet stuff - that was pretty good but when we went back the tofu tasted a little off. There was a bunch of fried stuff and the normal teriyaki, which were what you would expect from dime a dozen fake japanese restos. The high-light was kamameshi, though in the end it's just rice, but then they did it well. The service was pretty ok, of course, they had more folks than customers. Perhaps the drink list was more the high-light, though we never really made it there, having to dine with the family and all.

In the end, it's a so-so restaurant, where we'd eat when there's no parking at Katre, UCC, Chili's (then again there's valet in Chili's), or Omakase. Two stars for now, since we haven't really dug down to the root cause of why we always get bloated after we eat there.