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| - I was here for a special Mother's Day buffet event with friends and family. It was a tickets-only event so you had to purchase a ticket prior to the event. At first it was pretty chaotic because there was no traffic management at all. They had a few stations set up for you to fill your plate from: mussels, yee-fun, steamed veggies, steamed yams and taro, bbq ribs and soya chicken, a creamy fruit salad, fried goods like spring rolls or fried veggies, and winter melon soup. The plates you're given are very small and unlike the ones you'd get at a typical buffet restaurant so stacking it up was an issue. Unfortunately, people just piled on whatever they wanted so certain items like chicken or yee-fun were depleted quickly. They try their best to replenish what was missing, but it was not a pleasant experience for those in line, and those sitting near the stations because they had to endure the lines of derriere in their faces as they ate.
There is an order menu as well as part of the buffet. Each person was entitled to one fried shrimp/crab ball, half a lobster, and a bowl of faux shark-fin soup so it was only up to you on when to order it. Those items were premium and cooked very well. The other order items, like the sweet and sour pork, or veggies were mediocre and a victim to the fast-paced process of the night so it didn't turn out as well. The wait staff worked incredibly hard that night and were vigilant, replenishing tea pots and soft drinks throughout the two hours we were there.
Dessert options at the end were limited and not good. The cold coconut sago soup would've been good, but they ruined it by adding grapefruit to the concoction. Maybe they were hiding some other off taste, but that acidity mixed with the milk was gosh darn awful. The cakes were dry and factory-processed. The other Chinese desserts like red bean pudding were just okay, nothing to sell your first-born for.
Overall it was an all-right experience; some aspects were solid while others were poor. More consistency is needed.
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