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2014-12-30
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I visited Sakura on a weekday lunch, 30th Dec 2014 Tuesday. I was shocked to see a queue of at least 20 people at the entrance. Everyone apparently had a reservation as well. We had a party of 10 with a reservation as well, but we were told that one person had to stand in line and make the payment for all 10, and the remaining 9 could go in and get a seat. So take note, to have all your cash ready to make payment before your enter.Sakura had just undergone a renovation and here's their new inter
I visited Sakura on a weekday lunch, 30th Dec 2014 Tuesday. I was shocked to see a queue of at least 20 people at the entrance. Everyone apparently had a reservation as well. We had a party of 10 with a reservation as well, but we were told that one person had to stand in line and make the payment for all 10, and the remaining 9 could go in and get a seat. So take note, to have all your cash ready to make payment before your enter.
Sakura had just undergone a renovation and here's their new interior. Gone are the old bambo/fake japanese looking deco. It looks alot bigger and roomier than it used to.
Here is their fresh fruits, jelly and cold desserts section. I tried their mango sago and I found it too sweet and thick. The blueberry yogurt jelly tasted like a yakult pudding and it was quite nice.
Hokkien Prawn Mee
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Here is their drink offerings, by the end of our buffet at 1:30pm there was no more ice and no one came to refill it. The lunch buffet ends at 3pm. But when the coffee machine drawer was full and I notified a waiter, he quickly rectified the issue so we could enjoy cups of cappuccino. The coffee machine makes coffee which is mainly 1/2 cup of milk and drips of some coffee. It can be quite bitter but I enjoyed the bitterness and I nibbled on my plate of rainbow cake.
Here are their sweet dessert offerings. I tried every cake because I have a sweet tooth and I thoroughly enjoyed their rainbow cake, durian puff which is the plain looking cream puff. The cream puff which has a white topping is actually a plain cream puff. The banana tart/cake was decently sweet, though tasting slightly artificial, since I wasn't able to eat any actual bites of banana in it.
Rainbow cake
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Here is what my plate looked like. Sakura offers soup buns with a hole cut inside, for your to pour a small portion of soup in. The bun itself was slightly crisp, and it tasted okay with the cream of mushroom soup. The chicken karage was very crispy and tender. You could taste the thigh meat. The calamari tasted okay, but it was not crispy. The tempura vegetables were quite hard. The sushi were better than what I remembered Sakura used to have. At least they improved on that.
Each table has an induction cooker with a pot of soup so here is their shabu shabu section. Lot os vegetables for anyone who aspires to be rabbit, and also fresh raw fish.
Otah, Satay and even hainanese chicken, not a bad selection of local cuisines. The satay itself was okay, but every stick were drowned in satay sauce. I didn't mind the sweetness of it. The har jiong kai (fried prawn paste chicken) was crispy and very tasty. I enjoyed it. Tasted like the ones you get at the Tze Char restaurants at coffee shops.
Here is their fried snack section. I tried their mac n cheese which on the bottom left tray and the cheese tasted very strange. Probably heavily processed cheese. The meatballs were definitely frozen, didn't taste good.
Here is their sushi offerings. Quite popular with the crowd as I watched them disappear with a blink of an eye.The service staff were quick to clear our plates and they were attentive and helped refill our soups a couple of times.
All in all a decent buffet for $16.90++ for lunch. A lot of office people from the nearby industrial estate and since it is the school hollidays, alot of families with young children were seen at the buffet. Do come early, else they will sit you outside, no air con but they have oscilating fans.
I did enjoy the rainbow cake I would re-consider this buffet again during lunch should I have a massive rainbow cake cravings. Definitely not the best rainbow cake I have had, but it is a nice treat to end the buffet lunch.
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