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* * * I thought someone was pulling my leg when I was told that UnliCity@Century, an eat-all-you-can restaurant, is filled to the rafters at 6 p.m. True enough, when we got to the resto on the third floor of Century City Mall in Makati, we found a long queue of people waiting for their turn to be seated while mostly millennials seemed endlessly enjoying unlimited servings of Korean barbecue. Fortunately, a long table had been reserved for us by the restaurant owner, the indefatigable Robert Laurel Yupangco.

Only Robert would have thought of converting a once-empty large hall into a festive eating place with unlimited servings of pork and beef barbecue grilled right at the center of the tables. Side dishes are spicy and good. The prices vary, from P449 to P799 and P999 per head. For the P999 lunch and dinner, there are additions of sushi and yakitori, beer and wine and dessert and coffee – all unlimited. Limited are Korean dishes served a la carte.

UnliCity@Century is run by Chefmate Food Corp. of Zoomanity Group lord(ed) over by Robert, its president/CEO. Robert’s other projects are a mini zoo in Tagaytay, the Zoobic Safari at the Subic Bay Freeport, and a 12-hectare theme park, the Paradizoo, in Mendez, Cavite.

At Paradizoo, an eco-farm, kids enjoy visiting the Farm Frenzy, where they can cuddle and buy some animals like rabbits, hamsters and love birds, and parents can purchase Dorer sheep, Boer, Kalahri and Saanen dairy goats, Russa and turkey from Australia. In the Plant Me Home area, guests select and pick – and buy for minimal fees – vegetables and flowers from garden plots to take home. Paradizoo’s latest project is a state-of-the-art greenhouse in partnership with Netafim and Calata Group Corp.

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