This restaurant was featured in the Channel 5 food programme "Buffetlicious" (hosted by Sylvia Ratonel & Michelle Chia) in mid 2010. In it, the "ice-cream buffet" is featured. However, when I went in July 2010, apparently there is no ice-cream buffet, but there is a "high-tea buffet", served between 2-6pm.

Though it is said to be "high tea", actually you are allowed to order a main course, which includes pasta (yes, a full-sized pasta you ate at other restaurants). You are also allowed to order an egg omelette, and a fondue set only once per person. Other than these "restrictions" (or "bonuses"), there are plenty of sundaes, ice-creams, juices, pancakes stuff. If you say you want to try one of each flavour, I would tell you that in order to do that, you need to starve yourself for a full week!

There are several varieties of egg omelettes, but due to the sheer variety of foods in the buffet, the omelette is not among my favourites. Or rather, my taste buds are skewed towards the sweeter stuff...

Fondue: a choice of either the cheese or the chocolate fondue. Not bad.
Tip: do not order additional potato wedges in the menu as the fondue already has a fair share of these wedges.

Crisp fried bananas in chocolate sauce: not bad, though you may have problem eating it if your stomach is close to full capacity.

Pancakes served with ice-cream: yes, I'm not stopping you from eating this....

There are order "forms" for you to fill and pass to the waiters when ordering. Mind you, you are only allowed to submit the forms thrice.
So do you think 4 times would be more fair? Haha... even entering LENAS, I'm prepared to submit it thrice. But after ordering the pasta, egg omelett, fondue, several ice-creams, drinks & pancakes in the first 2 rounds, I could not bring myself to make a 3rd order!

Despite that, I left the restaurant with a happy stomach & a happier mind. All this with only $23.30 leaving my wallet! I don't even think about those new fats which I need to burn off my butt!

This restaurant is inside Hotel Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre (HISOCC), formerly known as Holiday Inn Park View (HIPV). It is located just beside the renovated Crystal Ballroom on the 2nd storey,

Breakfast style is buffet, though the variety is limited. There are loti pratas, and some local dishes, but hawker fare outside taste better.

However, the muffins are not bad. So don't just stuff yourself with food. Keep a little of stomach space for these muffins & some other pastries. Try the hotcakes too.

It is a little cramped in the mornings when many guests are having breakfast. However, if you take a seat near the window you can have a good view of the expressway.

The hanito, much like toasted bread with ice-cream serving, arrived at my desk larger than I expected!

I like the cubic shape/structure of the hanito, and the toasted bread is great! The combination of ice-cream with bread is fantastic as the melted ice-cream sipped into the bread for a richer and creamy-like taste.

If you are having a main course (e.g. pasta) at Waraku, do take a short break 1st before you eat your hanito - this is ato allow some digestion, and you'll enjoy the hanito better.

The waiters/waitresses there are youngsters, and they are quite helpful.

We ordered the set meals: the Unagi tofu Wazen and the Black pepper Yakiniku Wazen.

The former is quite delicious, especially the unagi which is served on a hotplate and tastes soft & tender when you put it into your mouth. However, it is on the oily side (so health conscious people beware!)

The Black pepper set has the beef served also on a hotplate. But the flames that day seem a little harsh and the meat gets a little charred (cancer-conscious people beware!)

I would have loved it better if the restaurant is more spacious, allowing you to be seated a little further from customers at other tables.

Nonetheless a pleasant restaurant with above average Japanese food.

I do not find the duck in yam a fantastic dish.

The prawn herbal soup is worth a try, as it is delicious. There is another dish, steamed prawns with garlic, which I tried in an earlier occasion - it tastes ok, but this dish doesn't come cheap.

The sweet potato balls? I like it, as it is served warm. I like the taste when you first sink your teeth into the interior.

The restaurant is not too big, but could get a little cramped on weekends.
Price? As I mentioned above, not cheap. I once co-treated a (not-so-nice) colleague for a meal at another Pu Tien branch, but regretted it when the amount each of us need to fork out at the end turns out to be the highest I have ever made.