Friday Dinner@Straits Cafe

It seems the thermal maasage at lifespa didn't really allow me to eat more at the dinner buffet at Rendezvous hotel. The most important contradicting thing for a buffet is how much variety it has but how much can you eat ? Maybe alot other people can eat lot. I managed to eat a portion of every item with some repeated servings.

The spread is typical with not much surprises. Oysters, salmon sashimi, smoked fishes, cold salads, sushi, poached tiger prawns, mussels, snow crabs about complete the starters/cold section. The smoked salmons are for kidney testing, simply too saltish. I like the romaine lettuce which are very crisp and of course the cherry tomatoes, juicy enough. And they got this mango mayo, something differnt from the 1000 island. A must mention is the poached tiger prawns, one word fresh. Still can remember when I had countless prawns at KL Sheraton, they are peeled and dumped in a bowl for diners to grab.


Oysters .... I like but never ate them alot. These are considered big enough and fresh as well. Had enough cold stuff, now is to the area where they kept the food covered in the "UFOs". They have a small area serving BBQ stuff, items like "am i a prawn ?", squids, scallops and chunks of fish. The quite huge "am i a prawn ?" thingie doesn't taste like prawns, the flesh is much softer, more like crab or lobster but tasteless on its own. The squid are good, huge chunks with the sambal chilli, just the right amount of jaw muscles will do.



The soups are passable. The boston clam chowder taste like from the Hans kitchen. The other soup, some watercress and chicken, didn't try, don't really like watercress.

The "award winning" saved a bit of grace from the soupy section but abit more coconut milk will be better. You can choose either "chu mifen" or "guotiao", then add your own ingredients, fish cake, prawns, eggs, crab roll and squids.


From the hot dishes section, selection is limited. Few good ones are the beef tenderloin with pepper cream sauce, salmon with lobster sauce and steam seabass. The beef is about medium well and succulent, needing you only to bite enough. Salmon is grilled to right doness and skin is crispy but the lobster sauce seems subdued. Others are not even nominated but can mention like prawn fritters with too much flour, pork belly ribs, some ayam thingie and .... nothing much. The cereal prawns, nothing fantastic.



The desserts are usually captivating but no room left for them. The ones that will attract your attention are probably the durian puff, durian fudge cake and durian pengat. The fudge cake is quite good but you should have it before the pengat which probably will immense you with too much durian taste. At 45++ per pax, merchant court ellenborough cafe seems a better choice but now DBS cards gets a 25% off the bill.