Makansutra
Food! LIVE TO EAT OR EAT TO LIVE?
well... live to eat seems really stupid. make your life on earth so meaningless.
so i'll go with eat to live but eat with colour.

today's food review by d. h. hong-

Soba so good.
East to West Buffet.

Soba so good.
All Jap food lovers, this is the place for you to go. A soba specialty jap restaurant. When you reach the entrance, you are greeted by a long line of patrons waiting patiently for their seat in the restaurant. Large posters showing the health benefits of eating soba and the super friendly jap manager entertains you while you wait. The overly eager manager greets everybody, thanks all who have finished their meal, keeping his torso bent at 90 degrees as you walk out, speaks in jap to the jap patrons and speaks in fluent mandarin to all the chinese.

The food comes really soon after ordering so you won't have to wait long. Their entire menu is soba based. so you can have sashimi with soba, unagi soba, tempura with soba etc. I had a set which consisted of agedashi tofu with salmon, unagi and tempura soft shell crab and vege together with cold soba. The side dishes were good but I like the cold soba best. It's so cool, light and refreshing with seaweed and crunchy fried tempura flour bits which complement it. yummy! Well, they claim that soba is very healthy and it is a carbo which will not be converted to fat so you can eat it as much as you want! yea the next time i go there, i'll just have a plate of cold soba!

dessert was soba cubes eaten with brown syrup and soy bean powder. it was very interesting cos it came with a four pronged square shaped fork and a sieve ladle. so you dip the white cubes in the syrup and then into the powder and you get a chewy muah chee like dessert. but it's not heavy and it's healthy cos there is no oil unlike in muah chee. simple but addictive.

so the verdict.
service:4 munches
quality:4 1/2 munches
ambience: 3 1/2 munches
price: 3 munches

the restaurant is located opp spageddies, basement of paragon.

East to West Buffet
The hotel where it's located is no fantastic high class restaurant. when you enter, you'd think it's a budget hotel as the lobby is dark and the layout is definitely not modern. but let not the ambience affect the spread of food available. ok let me recall from memory. it has 4 major buffet spreads- WESTERN, STEAMBOAT, BBQ and ASIAN. western includes pizza, pasta, lasgne, lamb chops, sauteed potatoes, grilled salmon, grilled tomatoes, fresh oysters, cold prawns, mussels, salad, mushroom cream grilled cheese prawns, roast beef, pork ribs etc. steamboat- din really eat steamboat cos the other food were too good. just your normal steamboat stuff then. BBQ- chicken and mutton satay, chicken wings, lamb chop, stingray, sotong, baby lobster etc. asian- tempura, sashimi, nasi lemak, laksa, satay beehoon, crab, fried noodles, roast duck, roast pork, roast chicken etc. and for the sweet tooth there are choc eclair, ice cream, ice kachang, cakes, kuehs, bread and butter pudding, brownies and fruits. well ok not everything was fantastic, the pizza was terrible, pasta not very nice and the stingray tasted like ammonia. but the others more than made up for it. definitely worth your money.

verdict:
service: 3 munches
quality:3 1/2 munches
ambience: 2 munches
price: 2 munches (about 32 bucks)

it's located at garden hotel at balmoral rd.

sorry no photos. forgot to bring it today. til the next food review.
d. h. hong out.