Showing posts with label Continental. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Continental. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Oscar's Buffet

Argh I'm damn irritated I'm very very sure I blogged about Oscars Buffet! As well as the day I went driving around in a heavy downpour along (part of) the F1 track but my post is MISSING now!!!!! It's not the first time and I'm very sure that I published it but it's gone from my posts page! Now I'm wondering what other posts blogger has been eating up without me knowing! D:<


I was reminded of the Caesar salad there and wanted to find my blogpost to drool over the pictures, but they're all gone! argh! And unlike the Dulukala restaurant, I'm absolutely sure that I've blogged about Oscars before, since after I blog I'll move my photos into my 'finished blogging' folder!!! Stupid blogger! One more time and I'm changing to wordpress! (Btw blogger highlights wordpress as a spelling error!!!:/)

Anyway, this is the Caesar salad I'm thinking about: mixed in a real cheese bowl and they use the spatula to scrap of a little cheese each time, until the bowl is hollow. Plus the dressing is really good, can taste the anchovies. It comes with real bacon too (not that I like bacon) and finely shredded egg and croutons (and quite alot of other stuff that you can add).They give you this complimentary bread basket before you start, but just skip it it's a waste of space :P It just looks nice that's all. Of course, the first things I attacked was the cold seafood, including prawns, crayfish and mussels. I think there's oyster for dinner but I haven't tried that.
Oscars is one of the better buffets around, the main dishes taste really nice, unlike most buffets where they serve mediocre stuff. There was this tom yum fish (the dry kind) that I kept eating. They also had the usual carving station (some beef thing) and cold dishes, as well as some local foods such as claypot rice and some fried kway teow (which I didn't eat). They have a noodle counter outside (the al fresco area) but we were so stuffed that we didnt want to walk all the way there to look at more carbs.
And they have such a huge lovely dessert counter - sooo many chocolates arranged on top of the counter, including one which was banana liqueur and peanut butter! The one with the red patch is some chocolate raspberry thing. Hope people don't sneeze at the chocolates, cos they're all exposed!And look at all those huge glass jars with meringue, cookies, wafer cones and super alot of ice cream toppings like gummy bear, chocolate chips, chocolate shavings etc etc! So exciting. I want to dash back there and eat lunch! They also have an ice cream counter, and the chefs will help you scoop the ice cream! So shoik no messy sticky ice cream scoops and disgustingly scooped ice cream tubs. And there's also waffles but I was too full to attempt any of that. The one on the left is my ice cream, cos I wanted to try nearly all their flavours, but then I was so full, so the server couldn't scoop nice pretty round scoops for me :PI tried this pineapple flambe dessert, which is pineapple caramelized with butter, served with a scoop of ice cream.
If I'm not wrong, lunch is $45++ (I think it was like $52 for each person after the extra charges), and dinner is $55++
I'm so going back to Oscars once the stupid patho exam is over - I can't believe I'm slogging so hard (not really hard, just that it seems never ending) for FOUR questions and dunno how many pots and 20 mcq:(
The fun in the buffet is having super alot of food to try, and not having to worry about the pricing afterwards :P
Oscars
Conrad Centennial Hotel
2 Temasek Boulevard(S) 038982
Tel: 6334 8888
Open 24hrs.
Buffet lunch from 12pm-2:30pm
Buffet Dinner from 6pm -10pm.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Equinox

Yay I finally went to the Equinox for lunch! I've never been there and the last time i went so high to see Singapore's scenery was prob in some sec school national education trip! This is one of my ultimate i-want-to-try-but-i-dont-really-wanna-pay-so-much buffet places :D lucky got the discount card :D:D

The lunch buffet either comes as a plain buffet ($40++), or a buffet and a main course (48++). The buffet has mainly starters and desserts.


Of course, I can't miss out the opportunity on stocking up my year's supply of foie gras! hehe the most overated dish according to some chefs, but its so yummy and crispy and oily and delicious with the fried piece of bread and sauce.

Anyway, they have this chef who stands at this stove cooking all the lovely yellow livers and then the yummy fat-frying-aroma will warft all around and make everyone feel like eating it. And can hear the sizzling of fats cooking in the frying pan too!

Fresh oysters, crab and prawnScallop cold dishes, sashimi, this yummy curry prawn salad with japanese cucumbersCheeses, lobster salad, tuna tataki.

It's quite obvious that it's worth it to pay $8++ more for the main course cos there was so much to choose from. The menu is organised into 3 main types of dishes - the Asian, Western and Vegetarian. The dishes all come with the lunch buffet + main course.This is the slow cooked Chilean sea bass which was very fresh and tender, and it tasted vaguely like cod, cos it was nice and oily (the fish oil kind). Soft shell crab al la plancha - Asian salad and sweet an sour chilli dressing. The Miso Glazed Lamb Yakitori stole the show. It came with shitake mushrooms and Japanese pumpkin puree and tasted the best. The lamb was juicy, slightly charred and the pumpkin sauce was sweet and creamy.The dessert selection was good and I liked the creme brulee alot cos it was so super creamy and it came in this very low dish so there was a great proportion of burnt caramel to creme brulee.

The chocolate mousse was very good too - rich and creamy and reminded me of koko black's chocolate mousse.

They also had ice cream - raspberry sorbet and lime sorbet too. and the essential chocolate fountain.Of course, while eating, we enjoyed gazing at the Singapore skylineCan see the Esplanade and the merlion and fullerton too! And all the cars look like little micromachine cars!

Yay so happy! :D Hope I will never suffer from any GI disorders / illnesses or i'll be so sad!

Friday, September 7, 2007

Mariott Cafe

What's better than eating a good buffet?
Eating a good buffet for free.
Thanks to K & C! :D
My first time eating at Marriott. Yummy dinner to round off a quite good week and a good Friday.

This is the buffet dinner at Marriott cafe - the spread was good, not so overwhelmingly big like the line of course, but nevertheless, just enough to let you try a bit of everything. The main courses were quite strong and I went back for more(which I usually don't - usually just eat lots of seafood and sashimi).
Seafood like mussels, oysters, crayfish and steamed crab.
Salmon sashimi and various types of sushi.
Two soups - Lotus Root and Pork Rib (didn't try it, no more space), Summer Farmer (clear vegetable soup with beans)
For salads and appetisers, the chicken salad (with corn pineapple and some other fruits), Mushroom salad (tangy dressing), smoked salmon, and Japanese Baby Octopus.
There's a roast beef station and a kebeb station.
Main courses were like baked potatoes, charsiew, chinese vegetable dishes, salmon in herb cream sauce with roasted vegetables, roasted vegetables with herbs, beehoon (with the tze char taste somemore!), chicken with chinese herbs, tandoori chicken etc etc etc.

Cheeses from the cheese platter - lots of nice cheeses and crackers. I quite liked the soft cheeses but I have no idea what type of cheese it is - tastes good so it doesn't matter what kind. The best parts of the buffet - lots of oysters (fresh ones too) and big juicy prawns and crayfishes. And tangy cocktail sauce to go along with it.They even had pita bread and kebab made on the spot.
The dessert spread was wonderful - it really stole the show. They have lots of cakes from the Marriott cake shop too. There's apple celery (I couldn't find the celery though), Lychee Martini (it's a creamy slightly cheesy cake), Mango and Lime (really delicious, the mango taste was really strong and the lime gave it a tangy aftertaste, and it's a mousse like cake in between 2 layers of soft sponge), Black forest cake, Mixed Nut Tart and Lemon Tart.There was also small servings of dessert like Mixed Berry Compote, Caramel Custard, Oreo Cheesecake, Tiramisu, Strawberry Shortcake and a very nice 3 layered chocolate mousse with mocha at the bottom.This is a strawberry jelly (I can't remember the posh name) and mango pudding. The mango pudding had the most intense mango taste that I've ever tried, and I kept thinking how wonderful this would be chilled with a bit of alcohol. The mango is very fragrant and it's really delicious, apart from the room-temperature.There was also Bread and Butter Pudding, and Chinese Desserts such as Longan Almond Jelly, Grass Jelly and Sea coconut.

My stomach is so full tt it doesn't have a lesser curve anymore.

Dinner costs $47.50 ++ for adults