Was staying over at one of the RWS hotel and saw that Ruyi had breakfast sets so we went there for breakfast! The breakfast menu had Fish/Chicken Porridge and fried rice and they come with a cup of coffee/tea for $5.50! Their non-breakfast menu is also available in the morning as well. Service was quite efficient, we got the our food immediately after ordering! I bought the chicken porridge to share with my friend. Personally I didn't like the porridge. It's quite grainy and not the smoother and silkier kind of porridge that I anticipated. It's also quite salty even without soy sauce. Furthermore the chicken taste like it's leftover from the night before because the meat is quite hard. In the end, my friend and I didn't even finish it even though it's not a very big bowl. The tea came in quite a small paper cup. It would be better if it's refillable. Overall, I think for $5.50, it's not worth it for breakfast.

We got a seat easily despite being dinner time. It was the only place in cineleisure that we didn't have to queue for seats during dinner. Service was very efficient although we had to wave at the staff (to take our orders) for awhile before they caught our attention as they were busy serving other customers.

The food came within 10mins of ordering. I had the bamboo rice ($8.90) with chicken, sausage and vegetables. It was rather unique as it came in a real bamboo container. There was really a lot of rice, I think it’s almost impossible to finish the rice unless you’re quite a big eater. It's better to use the plate to eat as it's quite hard to eat from the container itself without your food spilling at the side. I also ordered the hot yuan yang ($3.20) as the place was cold and I needed something hot to warm me up! It tasted just nice, not too sweet or sticky for my liking.My friends and I ordered this Mango Snow Ice ($6.90) to share as we saw a lot of people eating it. It was really tall and huge for $6.90. The mango ice cream was great!! The dessert also had jellies, which was at the bottom of the mountain of ice, be careful not to topple the ice cream as you're digging at the bottom. But we didn’t finish it in the end, there’s just too much ice.

Back to cineleisure for a cheap and tasty dinner, this time I tried the bak kut teh at koufu! It costs $4.50, and $0.50 for a bowl of rice. The first taste of the soup was extremely peppery and my mouth was on fire. But each subsequent mouthfuls, the soup became better, in fact it was very appetizing. The pork ribs didn't have a lot of meat and I was struggling to get meat out of it, not only it's little but difficult to get the meat from the bone. There's only pork ribs in the soup and nothing else so you either eat the rice with the soup or with the meat. For $5 it's a little pricey though.

I was heading to coffee club with a friend to visit a friend of ours who was working there. You can’t miss Coffee Club if you’re heading to Tampines 1! Turn right after exiting the gantry at the control station and after walking down the short flight of stairs, to your left is coffee club, located in an open area. I’ve previously tried the tea because I needed some place to sit, but this time it’s visiting my friend at work! The best thing is she recommended some good cakes! She recommended quite a few cakes but I couldn’t make up my mind I just told her to give us two slice of cakes that she thinks is good.

Presenting to you the first cake: Apricot Passion Fruit Heaven ($7.20). This little black fella needs more than just one mouth to be fully appreciated by the taste buds. The first taste of it for me was like, “Weird” because the apricot was a little sour and it made the whole cake just tastes funny. But for every subsequent mouthful, I grew to like it a lot! The sweet and sour taste complement each other.The second slice of cake that we had was Blackforest Cake ($6.90). It may just be very ordinary to some but this blackforest cake is really quite rich in flavour. The drink we ordered was Iced Hazelnut Choco Latte ($7.50). My friend actually recommended the blackforest latte but because we had a blackforest cake already, we choose something else. She said the latter was nice because of the rum in the drink. Anyway our hazelnut latte was kind of diluted, and it’s hazelnut because there’s really hazelnuts in the latte. Kind of weird right! I couldn’t taste the hazelnut though. I don't recommend this drink at all!

After seeing the super wide range of food on the website, plus hearing good feedback from my friends, we decided to give Buffet Town a go! Alas, it’s too popular because it’s really affordable if you eat a lot of those expensive seafood items. My friend called up on Tuesday but the reservations were full! And there’s only places for 30 walk-in customers. So my friend went to start queueing at 5.30pm and managed to be the 14th person. Walk-ins start at 6.15pm, reservations at 6pm.

I can’t remember what this station was called, but you pick the amount of meat you want (fish, pork, chicken) and ask the person to stir fry it. IT’S SUPER DUPER NICE. Especially the dory. Succulent! Similarly for the vegetables, you choose how much you want and they will stir fry it for you. I didn’t know they will stir fry with garlic, I’m not a huge fan of garlic, but I still ate it because it’s so good! LOVE THIS STATION THE MOST. Wanted to go for a second round but my stomach was really full and there’s still a lot I haven’t tried.We attacked the crab after that. I was a little disappointed that the portion was rather small, because they were serving the leg part of the crab only, not the full crab. They have chilli crab and black pepper crab. The chilli crab was too spicy for me (my tolerance is not very high) but the black pepper one was great! We also ate probably 14 prawns or more. The prawns were fresh, so it was really nice. And it was really thoughtful of buffet town to have placed the lemon water on our table before we even sat down so we can dip our hands into it after deshelling the crab and prawns.

We went to walk around after that, trying to take in the amount of food they have as well as checking out the varieties. I was zooming in on laksa whereas my friend was aiming for the curry chicken which we took very long to find. We thought it’s at some station and we have to go ask for it, but turns out it’s with all the cooked dishes at the thai section, that’s just right next to where we were sitting. Another section of the buffet worth commenting about is the coffee section! I feel so happy to see this section! It looks just like a real coffee shop! And I had a hard time choosing which one I wanted because I wanted to try all. In the end we ordered a kopi c! As there were only hot drinks here, we took a cup with ice and poured the hot coffee over the ice. Another item to try is the soya beancurd (really smooth and silky, it rolls down your throat) and the soya bean drink (as recommended by my friend but I didn’t try).I did not try the dessert section as I was really full and couldn't take in any more food in my stomach. I saw one dessert which looks quite nice, something like oreo flavoured cake. My friend who went to have desserts said there wasn't any more of that at around 9.20pm. Some of the other food I tried as well; Overall, I think the buffet is really value for money, especially if you like sashimi a lot, you can just keep going to the station to take. They have different types of cuisine; Thai, western, Chinese and Japanese etc. There's really too much food to write about but the ones I've written are those that are worth giving it a try. One tip is that, it is not possible to finish trying all the food, so just zoom in on the more worth it, more expensive food and the ones that you think is really nice. And also, if you really want to go for the buffet and don't mind waiting, you can try waiting until 7plus-8plus because that's when some people already start to leave.

Verdict: Good variety of food, value for money, efficient staff (they cleared our plates extremely fast to the extent some people were quite annoyed!), quality of food is quite good! I can't find any fault for this buffet at all.

PS: Sorry if I didn't provide pictures for some of the food I mentioned, limited to 12 photos for this review only!