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Old Jul 6, 2011 | 12:49 pm
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blueline7
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Singapore Mandarin Oriental Hotel Buffet - Melt The World

I arrived early for my buffet reservation after a day of conferencing and sightseeing. The hotel is not much to look at from the outside and is rather imposing once you get inside, with a very dark and staid impression.





The buffet itself was very good, with the seafood and the sushi the most impressive aspect. Other than the great seafood and sushi however, the other dishes were a bit lackluster, except for the deserts which were very impressive.




























Service was extremely attentive, if a bit overbearing, but the waiter kindly gave me a 15% discount for being an Amex cardholder, which was nice and unexpected. The cost was about $85 if I recall. Although it was great to have lobster, it was a tad dry and tasteless, but the oysters, shrimp, and sushi were great. It is worth going here just for the seafood and sushi, as the other dishes were of no particular attraction, and some were even a tad strange in an effort to cater to 'all foreign tastes', including hillbillie apparently from the odd assortment of American dishes...

This was the closest to a "Hong Kong style seafood buffet' that I found in Singapore, but it was so dark in the restaurant and so formal, that it really wasn't that great an environment, and I wished there were some great Singaporean style dishes included as well. I would give this a 8 out of 10.

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