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2011-09-26
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For the price you are paying, this buffet is overrated. Basically what it serves is very simple local dishes that you can easily find in hawker centers and other international dishes of the same standard as those you can easily obtain in shopping malls around Singapore. I guess you are paying for being able to sample a little bit of everything all at once. For the Chinese cuisine section, the duck and roast pork was nice, though the vegetables were abit hard and the dimsum wasn’t well made. For
For the Chinese cuisine section, the duck and roast pork was nice, though the vegetables were abit hard and the dimsum wasn’t well made. For the curry section, most of the curries weren’t as fragrant as what you can find outside, however, as they also cater to international diners, I guess not everybody can take the kind of spice. For the western food section, the steak was well done (so if you prefer them medium rare then you can skip this dish). The good thing about their spaghetti was they cook it on the spot for you, so its hot and you can choose what you want to go into the sauce. At the same counter, you can also get hot plate beef which is FANTASTIC. That would be the one dish I would say made the whole dinner satisfactory after all. For the vietnamnese/ thai section, the rice cakes were cold and hard, the crackers were exposed too long and the samosas weren’t crispy anymore.
The desserts comprised of local varieties such as ondeh ondeh, 9layer kueh, egg tarts etc. and the international section were mostly small cakes and a tonne cream stuff. The ice cream was a mere few flavours and they tasted like our no frills ice cream from NTUC.
What saved the entire experience (apart from the beef)was the service. I celebrated my birthday there with my family and the staff brought out a slice of cake and sang a birthday song for me and were generally very happy to do so (much unlike the unpleasant experience in Shangrila).
Overall, taste would be a 7.5/10, variety 8/10, service 9/10 and ambience 9/10.
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