Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Queen & Mangosteen

Went to The Queen & Mangosteen for tea after having dinner at Akashi.

We ordered Fried Chicken Wings with Hoi Sin sauce and White Chocolate with Cassis Cake with Triple Chocolate Ice-cream and mixed berry sauce.







Paired with a nice cup of coffee..



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Ultimate indulgence!
Their chicken wings are very delicious!

Akashi Japanese restaurant

This is taken at the Vivocity outlet.

Ordered their tuna sashimi and Nabeyaki udon set.







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The food is reasonable quality but nothing spectacular that makes me want to go back everytime.


Dim Sum @ Peach Garden

We went to the outlet at Novena Garden.

The variety served for dim sum was very limited. Nevertheless, the quality of the food makes the trip very worthwhile.

Beancurd roll

Har gau

Deep fried prawns wrapped in vemicelli

Fried Singapore-style Carrot Cake

Siew Mai

Steamed BBQ pork bun

The best custard bun I ever had - creamy custard filling with salted egg (Yummy!)


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Would definitely love to try the dim sum again.
Their custard bun is the best I ever had.
If only there's an outlet in the East as well...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Buffets in Singapore

I was doing some research on the best buffet this week and realised that well I have been to several buffets already...

Some of the places that I have tried to date

1. Marriott Cafe

This was one of my first buffet that I went while in JC days.
At that time, buffet at Marriott was expensive for a student...
I have been here more than 3 times at least. Of which, 2 was during their Christmas spread.
And this was the first place when I splurged close to 80 bucks for the Christmas Eve dinner.

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Their dessert spread is very good, both quality and variety i.e. there are two different sets of desserts served during buffet.

I love their Christmas spread as well.

2. Ellenborough @ Merchant Court

Still remembered searching in forums for nice buffet places during my university years as well.
This was supposedly very value for money buffets.
Been here several times, as well as their crab buffet season.

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I love the durian pengat as I can savour the durians without having to get my hands dirty. =P

3. Straits Kitchen @ Hyatt

Tried both their lunch and dinner during my university days.
They have a wide variety of Malay, Indian, Chinese food.

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Nothing against it just that I would prefer to try out other buffet places...

4. Oscars @ Conrad

We started having our annual birthday celebrations here in the recent years as they served Boston lobsters on specific days of the week.

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They have revised their prices up and no longer serve Boston lobsters anymore.
Doubt I will be there since the highlight is gone...

5. The Line @ Shangri-La

Went during their birthday celebrations this year.
It is the longest line in Singapore and is quite pricey.

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I wasn't very impressed though.
Maybe there was so much hoo-ha about it being the longest spread and hence have had pretty high expectations of what it would be.
Was quite disappointed.

6. Cafe Brio @ Grand Copthorne Waterfront

Brought my cousin and her boyfriend during their recent trip to Singapore.
It was during Chinese New Year and I must say they have a very good spread.

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Definitely. Would love to try the buffet spread again as we did not manage to try everything the last time round.

7. Global Kichen @ Pan Pacific

Tried the buffet spread recently.
They have very weird layout The buffet areas are at obscure corners of the restaurants. For example, you find the starters at some room, while the main dishes are well-positioned. And at one corner beside is the remaining dishes.

They serve a variety of tea but limited desserts, about 6 to 7 types only.

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I do not like the layout of the place and the limited spread. They have the smallest dessert spread amongst all the places that I have been to.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Sakura @ Downtown East



















Yam Paste






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They have a wide buffet spread but somehow the food does not appeal to me.
It is either too oily or too bland...