If you’re in the East Coast area and feeling ravenous, this hotel buffet restaurant is certainly worth checking out. You get a veritable feast of local dishes, along with a salad bar and a Thai-themed starter station with various cold dishes.
While the salad bar selection could be improved, the Thai starters were very good—especially the Thai ground pork. The mains included tomato fried rice, chili crayfish, beef stew, steamed seabass and more. They had two variations of laska—laksa lemak and Penang laksa, with the laksa lemak being the better of the two. There were also two soups—the too milky pumpkin soup, and the tasty itek sio (a clear salted vegetable and pork soup); and two versions of carrot cake (chye tao kuay)—the light-colored and dark soy sauce version. Both were pretty good.
Sadly, the desserts were a bit of a letdown, with the best item being the chilled durian paste. Service was great though, and generally there’s little to complain about.
We left feeling satisfied, but perhaps we’re better off sticking to more well-known and superior buffet spreads in town.
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