Sambo Kojin

HORRIBLE!
waste of money. We paid over a thousand pesos per head
for junky food. Seems like everything was leftovers. Almost every tray was empty. JEEEEEZ guys! This is Scam! Stop it! If your restaurant is getting bankrupt please have mercy to those people who's working hard. The only seafood I saw was "KUHOL or SUSO"?
It's wasn't even from the sea. Wow guys.tsk.tsk.

I was very disappointed. Grabe for their price, i should just have gone to a high end samgyup place. Kelangan pa nila ng reservation ahead of time, pero parang di naman sila nagprepare ng enough food for the people who are there.

Ang tagal tagal nila magrefill. The place just looks so so sad. Ang depressing tignan ng food stations. Kung 7pm reservation mo (which is their last slot), baka wala ka nang abutan na matinong food by 7: 20. Nakakaasar. Sayang pera! Ugh.

Dont choose buffet Collab masasayang lang.

-1st if you book online they will make you choose the time of reservation, its 11am, 1pm, 5pm, 7pm.we chose 1pm but unfortunately the food was cold, and most buffet plates are empty.we chose buffet collab and we're asking to refill the buffet plates, they said they will refill but we return and return on that section no refill happened
-most of foods are cold.i remember the only hot food was lomi.if you will make us choose the time make sure to refill the plates and cook fresh food.but 1088 was too expensive proceed na lang kayo sa vikings.

Worst experience so far. We entered by 8: 30 and was told that last call would be 9: 30. But the plates are already empty and no replenishes were made. There’s no much choices of food either. Very bad experience. Hope they’ll improve.

A relic of the past. Sambo Kojin is one of those old buffets that never really improved yet kept its premium price. For almost 1000 pesos, the quality and choices of food is just sad.

Please don't eat here. Let's force the management to improve OR close down.

Once this place was the best buffet in metro manila, but now trubble, you pay 1088 per head for this service. All of their plates are empty, nothing to pick, trubble service, cant even find clean plate to use. Never ever go there again its all scam

This place is going downhill. Lousy servers, the uncooked meat section has a small cockroach roaming around, slow refill of food and drinks (i even had to tell them to refill the pink lemonade) 8.30pm was the cutoff but they’re already packing up around 8: 10. Few food selection even with the dads collab.

One of the worst buffet after the pandemic. Not going back ever again.

It was my first time eating there last thursday c/o a friend who was really eager for me to experience their food. It was very disappointing since although the food was great I dont think the service and hygiene is.we found a little cockroach coming out from the grill scurrying towards across the table and unto the chair. The amount of time it took the roach to travel from point a to point b (and for me to take a video) was how fast the staff took action just to resolve the issue which is to take their time to come up to our table and pick up the roach with tissue and just walk away- no apology nor compensation.

Worst samgyup buffet I've ever been to. Halos walang laman, nakakadisappoint pag pasok palang. Hindi masarap and bland ang food including beef strips na parang hindi beef. I'm so disappointed.

I have high expectations with Sambokojin because we've been eating there since 2013 (We've tried their various branches and they always have the same good quality).

However, we were so disappointed when we ate last week. The choices were SUPER few (they don't refill immediately or don't refill at all), the meats for grilling has changed quality, and worse, the service staff were snobs and the guy at the sashimi station screamed at me when I have no idea that I need to get a plate first (He could've said it politely).

Not worth the 988php per head, we feel scammed because it's supposed to be a "buffet collab" with Kamayan, Dad's, and Saisaki but it doesn't feel like a buffet at all.

NOT RECOMMENDED. CHOOSE ANOTHER RESTAURANT! They also turned off their review and comment sections in Facebook so that bad reviews won't be revealed. It really broke my heart because Sambokojin was really my favorite for years and I don't know why they shifted to bad quality food and poor service. Did they change management? Not sure though.

Bad experience! From fresh fruits shake to power juice, no more sliced beef, salmon sashimi need to wait 30min, I miss the sambokojin last year…

No explanation needed. Not worth the price, you'll get disappointed in every way.

Hoping that this will improve soon but right now, it's not a good to consider when you want a grill buffet.

Found a LIVING SLUG in my lettuce! It even moved it's eyes stalk and looked at me. Felt a shiver in my spine! I called a server and they just took the lettuce leaf that has the slug from me and didn't do anything with the remaining lettuce being served and currently consumed by other customers. As for me, i stopped eating the lettuce they are serving and moved on with the other foods available. JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS THIS, INGESTING A LIVING SNAIL OR SLUG CAN CAUSE MENINGITIS DUE TO PARASITIC NEMATODES THAT LIVES INSIDE THEM. RAW FOODS LIKE LETTUCES SHOULD BE CLEANED WITH CHLORINE OR SALT OR OTHER CLEANING AGENT TO AVOID ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF slugs or snail. Parasitic infection is undetectable. So for diners of SAMBOKOJIN MEGAMALL for 1/16/2020 let's hope that it's an isolated case and no body ingested the raw slugs form their lettuces.

Overcharged - short list of menus, almost half of the menus were not available.they should have reduced their cost.they should inform the guest that their menus will be lessen.we felt shortchanged.do not blame the suppliers, if they cant deliver, then find another one and replace your purchaser.even the sodas and fresh fruit shakes were not available.

The sushi maker is impolite, he doesn't know how to remind the guests of the health protocols in a proper manner, as if that he's talking to a stranger. I gave him a bad stare.

I wonder if the management is giving their employees the right salaries, it seems that they are not happy with their jobs.i guess we will never be back until they return to their original ambience, environment and food varieties because they are charging in their original price.

Quarantine Experience. Worse.

I expected a downgraded experience during this quarantine, but what we got was much worse.

The food was a definite downgrade, the quality is not passable for a top tier buffet. I've been to this Sambo Kojin branch a dozen times in the past 5 years, this is the first time their food was this bad. It was dry and cold (except for the soup)

The adopted table service is very slow. In this new system, customers can choose any food they want for any reasonable amount in a single order. This caused an insane demand upfront and the staff could not keep up. Eventually, food is served cold.

Food options has been cut down to half. Granted, this is not entirely their fault.

Some of the staff were not friendly, the lady that served us at some point was not delicate on setting down the plates.

I was hoping that Sambo Kojin could give us a magical experience on our anniversary (as many times in the past)

As a long time patron of Sambo Kojin. Over a dozen visits in the last 5 years, this would be my last. Goodbye Sambo, thank you for the memories.

There aren't many foods, and I can't seem to eat.
I think it's too expensive for food.
It would be better to just eat it cheaply elsewhere.

We visited sambojoke-in today (9/26/18) along with my workmates, I mean at first it was a good experience even though their crew was a bit snobbish at first which is fine! Since we weren't the only one in there. We found some small cockroach on the meat but we let it pass since we saw it immediately; but not until we were served some water that has some "creatures" in it! Very dissapointed on this branch!

It's fine. Get the freshly prepared items. Don't get the items that have been on display for a while.

Their food is ok.except for the long waiting line.reservation must be done atleast 1week prior so you will have discount.we enjoyed the dads buffet but samgyup have limited choices or maybe theyre not refilling at all by the time we arrived around 1pm.almost all section have empty display.their plates and glasses are not properly washed.glasses display are always finish and u need to ask from time to time whenever u want to refill some drinks

Sambokojin has to be closed for a month, cleaned thoroughly, all corners inside cabinets, crs. It reeks of cockroach stench. Please bring lots of Lysol, chlorox, brushes, change all rotten wood partitions and replace with hard plastic parts, door jambs, doors, cabinets.