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2014-04-26
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HotPot Culture located at the top floor of Marina Square offers $8.80++ for a porridge lunch buffet with air-con and up to 24 dishes that you can choose from! This porridge buffet that HotPot Culture offers reminds me of a hotel breakfast buffet, with lots of random hits and misses as usual... those misses are the ones you'd wished someone warn you about, the hits come often as surprising as paintball attacks.A brief introduction: the dishes are Singaporean and China-based, with Sichuan pickled
HotPot Culture located at the top floor of Marina Square offers $8.80++ for a porridge lunch buffet with air-con and up to 24 dishes that you can choose from! This porridge buffet that HotPot Culture offers reminds me of a hotel breakfast buffet, with lots of random hits and misses as usual... those misses are the ones you'd wished someone warn you about, the hits come often as surprising as paintball attacks.
A brief introduction: the dishes are Singaporean and China-based, with Sichuan pickled vegetables and also carrot cake. There is rice, mantous and porridge for your taking to reach your carbohydrates intake. On the other side, there is green bean soup and orange slices for dessert. They also serve homemade barley too.
The usual porridge condiments like preserved vegetables, salted eggs, ikan bilis with peanuts, braised pork belly and beancurd are available too.
Observing that most of the service staff had a strong China accent, I would think that the Singaporean dishes might end up like the "Singapore corner" in most overseas hotel buffets. I was pleasantly surprised that the carrot cake, char kway teow, beehoon, and the fried rice were wonderfully done up, albeit a little strong on the flavours. On the other hand, there were some filler dishes that seemed rather skimpy on effort such as the spicy chicken sausage and spicy tofu which tasted suspiciously similar in terms of its sauce.
The supposed star of the buffet - the porridge - was miserably rice belatedly mixed with water, and was tasteless at best. While I kind of liked their rendition of sweet green bean soup with rice, Ave didn't think well of it. It's strange but in a good way. The homemade barley is passable though not spectacular.Overall, HotPot Culture has rather attentive service and a relatively peaceful environment even during the lunch crowd. Don't expect too much for the food quality, though it does makes for a filling and extremely value-for-money lunch.
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