I’ll say this upfront so you know exactly who’s talking to you: I’ve eaten my way through most of the eat-all-you-can buffets in Metro Manila. Vikings, Spiral, Circles, the works — I’ve done the buffet crawl so you don’t have to gamble your Saturday appetite on a bad one. And honestly? Nothing beats Cafe Ilang-Ilang. I’m also not writing this after one lucky lunch. I’ve celebrated birthdays here with my entire extended family (the kind where lolo brings his own tsinelas bag “just in case”), toasted a promotion over the Seafood Night spread, and dragged balikbayan cousins here straight from the airport because I wanted their first Manila meal to…