Oh from the title location Marriot Hotel, please dun think im so rich to have my dinner here. im jus a poor guy who is lucky to got my second chance from my company to join this food tasting session in this luxury 5stars hotel. Before introducing the foods, i would like to compare it with my previous experience at Pan Pacific Marina. Firstly, it seems that Pan Pac seems take their customer more seriously as previously they served us in a small well decorated ballroom with the table cloth we chosen for our D&D with a very friendly waitress aunty but at Marriot, they just served us at their normal dining restaurant, without our chosen table cloth decorations and their waitress service is.. aih.. just no time to serve us.. even our tea pot was empty also nobady to fill it up with hot water. maybe im a little bit too fussy.. ok.. please ignore a ngam ngam cham cham old man.. hiak hiak.. BUT they got 1 thing better which was, as there are a few choices of dishes to choose, they prepared all of them for us that day so that we are able to make up our mind which dishes we want.. isn't it sweet...
Back to business.. as chinese traditional pattern, the first dish will sure be a cold plate.
the dish here we were served with a combination platter of deep fried mushroom stuffed with fish paste, smoked duck meat, roasted pork belly, vietnamese spring roll, prawn salad, abalone clam in thai style and roasted duck. although it stated that the mushroom was deep fried, but when eaten, i dont feel the oilyness yet i still think it is very juicy and the fish paste able to blends in well with it. smoke duck is a bit salty and the texture a bit funny so it was the first to be kicked out of our selection. roasted pork belly is very normal yet my other members think it should be in the league. vietnamese spring roll..hmmm.. i think local pasar malam also can be bought so dun need to think much, it was unclicked. for prawn salad, the prawn was very fresh which makes its meat very Q. although to me i think it is quite normal but for its freshness it was still chosen. abalone clam size is a bit too small but at least the sweet sour taste makes it quite appetizing.. it stays on and lastly, the roasted duck which i like the most.. meat very tender and juicy.. i voted it to be in da plate so i can have it again end of this month.. hiak hiak..
second dish.. do u think it should be shark fins? hmmm.. no no.. u r wrong.. my boss already set a rules that we must save sharks so no more shark fins will be in the menu. so we are givena choice to choose between braised lobster broth with prawn, scallop, crab meat and bamboo pith & braised hasma broth with conpoy, shredded abalone, sea cucumber, bamboo pith and shredded mushroom.
the first thought of tasting the lobster broth was what am i eating? how come no taste de.. actually they seems to use the ingredients original taste without adding much salt or msg to make it taste better but it just dont feel right. hahaha..
i still prefer the hasma broth.. the cooking style is almost same as normal shark fins.. no shark fins to me is ok.. the taste is there then i like it just as much.. haha.. we one voice voted for the hasma broth.. yea yea..
next, of course is fish lo.. for chinese tradition, sure we wanted "year year got fish".. haha.. we were served with steam live garoupa with mandarin peel in black bean sauce. this is a really oh no dish.. although the gravy was ok but this fish quality is really a big problem.. at first we still think that it was over steamed but the more we eat the more we feel is the quality of the fish itself. the meat is very hard and seems to be wat we chinese called as "lo ko" but after consulted with the chef at the end of the dinner, they told us the fish is not lo ko but the meat is like that.. some people really dun able to accept them and we seems to be one of them. so we asked to change it to sea bass which has a softer and tender quality of meat.
one of the nice dish we had for the night is the deep fried butterfly prawn accompanied by deep fried spare ribs coated with saseme seed.
the prawn is some sort like tempura which is really very crispy yet can feel its freshness and Qness. Spare ribs is the one i like. although it is cooked something like "pork ribs king" which i hate the tomato sauce, but the softness and tenderness of the meat quality really make me unable to stop myself to one more and another into my mouth.. hahaha.. seems every1 noted i like this dish so much that they dun dare to take another piece.. wohahhaa..
braised sea cucumber and "bai ling zhi" mushroom with seasonal vegetable. each of the sea cucumber and mushroom was covered with a thick sticky flavourful broth.. nice nice.. i like it a lot..
the best dish award was dedicated to this cheap yet wonderful dish.
crispy chicken marinated with chinese rose wine and salt. hmmm.. im thinking very hard here how to decribe it. hmmm.. this dish was served in a good presentation. from the looks, able to know that the skin should be very crispy. yeah, its skin was very crispy(can heard crack crack sound when we are eating) and salted.. for its breast meat, you wont feel the hardness. so, sure wont complaint the meat it will stuck in between ur teeth.. BUT i doubt its quality will remains on the actual date as when they prepare for too many tables, it wont be too crispy as it will be prepared much earlier. sad sad..
Lastly stew ee-fu noodles with crabmeat, straw mushroom and chives.. hmmm.. tasted better than last year at pan pac but i think if i cook, it will taste even better.. hahaha...
for the dessert, they let us tried sweeten red bean cream with glutinuos black sesame dumping, lily bulbs and lotus seed
& warm almond cream with glutinous black sesame dumpling. hmmm.. red bean cream i think is nice as not very sweet. topping it up with lotus seed and lily bulbs makes creamy paste have a crunchy texture. i like it a lot but i lost in this selection.. hahaha..
i admit that the almond cream is not bad although i hate almond, but it is not selected too.. hahaha.. finally they asked for yam paste.. waahhaa.. a dessert that my boss like the most.. i like yam paste also but pray hard it is not too sweet ba..
wat a long story i have written.. hmmm.. as a conclusion, this restaurant's food to me i think is ok ok only la.. not everything is nice lo.. the overall price for one of this table of foods will cost about SGD$900++ ba.. expensive wor.. without my company, i dun think i will have a chance to taste this expensive yet so so food.. hiak hiak..
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