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2011-07-19
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No wait needed on a Tuseday afternoon.Salad: Good salad items, including quality items seared tuna and a well-made potato salad. There is also a manned freshly tossed salad station. A.Cold section: Crab legs, smoked salmon, cold cuts, parma ham, plus other seafood items. A.Soup: Two Western (minestrone and clam chowder) and one Chinese. Minestrone was good. Clam chowder was a poor mix of butter and flour with no real stock. C.Sashimi: Limited choices of salmon, hamachi and some rolls.
Salad: Good salad items, including quality items seared tuna and a well-made potato salad. There is also a manned freshly tossed salad station. A.
Cold section: Crab legs, smoked salmon, cold cuts, parma ham, plus other seafood items. A.
Soup: Two Western (minestrone and clam chowder) and one Chinese. Minestrone was good. Clam chowder was a poor mix of butter and flour with no real stock. C.
Sashimi: Limited choices of salmon, hamachi and some rolls. C.
Western Mains: Roast beef is above average. Japanese grill is freshly prepared on the spot with lamb, short ribs, pork and beef skewers and it was ok. Excellent braised beef brisket in red wine and fantastic mashed potato. Vegetables. B.
Chinese Mains: Fried shrimp in peppers (紅黃青椒等), fried clams in chili sauce, good beef fried rice, Napa cabbage (黃芽白), dim sum. B.
Asian Mains: Green curry chicken, curry with boiled egg, Naan bread, ok. B.
Noodles: A variety of noodles in soup. Did not try.
Pasta: Pasta is freshly made, not the pre-made dried stuff that has been cooked. Good choices of topping. Sauce is good and the cook does a good job. A.
Fruit: Watermelon, rock melon, and papaya. Not many choices but quality is very good. A.
Dessert: Opera cake has no taste except sugar. Chocolate and coffee cake was very good. Apple Crumble is average. Haagen Daz ice cream is served with about 6 varieties. You can also add toppings. There is a chocolate fountain with strawberries. B.
Service: Not bad for a buffet but if it is stuffy (焗) when you are sitting in the section above the stairs.
Lunch vs Dinner: For dinner, there will be freshly shucked oysters, steam fish and other additional premium stuff.
Overall, above average quality-wise. It's certainly much better in terms of quality than Cafe Too or Cafe Kool or Shangri-La even if it has less choices. Shangri-La only wins on dessert and presentation.
Price: Weekday lunch: $238, dinner $398. Weekend lunch: $308, dinner: $458. Plus 10% of course.
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