surprised you didn't run into any 'Mongolian buffets', which are of course, nothing to do with Mongolia. On my solitary visit to Boracay 10 years ago, I was ambushed by 'Mongolian' buffet vendors several times. They held me up and forced me to eat there. However I think they let me off, the food was not all that bad, it was all-you-can-eat, and it only cost 199 pesos. It's probably gone up to 299 now.