Carousel

Be charmed by the buffet spread in Carosel by Plaza on the Scotts as they offered a wide spread varieties of cuisine from Mediterrean, Asian to Japanese including seafood and desserts stations could have let diner spoilt for choices. Rated as one of the top Halal Buffets in Singapore, these place had gained lots of attention from our Muslim foodies. In addition, their delectable dishes could leave all diners be spoilt for choices.

Carousel

House in the ground level of Hotel Plaza by the Scotts, Carosel is easily accessible from the Orchard MRT Station. Perhaps the hardest part of getting to Carousel is perhaps the challenge in fixing a date as this place is generally overwhelmed by Buffet-Goers like us especially during Dinners.

If not for the 3 months advance booking I had, this trip can never happen.

Lobby of Plaza Royal By the Scotts

As we were lead into the restaurant by the polite waitress, one can really enjoyed the clean and neat environment under the attractive lights. To the left we have the Japanese Station and to the right, the Seafood section where munching on big alaska king crabs and fresh oysters were start off.

Entrance into Carousel Buffet Area

Carousel's team professionalism had shown that every diner has a place mat in front of them together with the napkin prepared. What's more a set of utensils were already place on the rack too. With such service and setup, I felt please and privileged as their customers.

Set up ready for diners

It was about 7pm and the place had not yet fully occupied but when the night got darker, the right atmosphere came. Everyone was enjoying their fair share of delighting buffet dinner and chatting among themselves. The comfy cushioned seating were also part of the main reason where diners can actually sit there for a longer period of time.

Dining area

My lobster craving instinct has never stopped me from heading towards the seafood station first. Seafood were fresh, surrounded by ice with sauces helpings by the side.

Seafood Station

The lobsters were nicely laid on the bed of ice waiting to be picked by the thongs given. The orange red crustaceans were simply too pleasing to our eyes and appetite. Since it's a buffet, it's unlikely that one will stop at just a serving.

Lobsters

Oysters lover, I bet you wont miss out those guys standing at the seafood station, sucking in their tummies and giving all their might in opening the hard shells of those oysters.

Oysters

Head towards the Japanese Stations and you will get the staple food like Soba, and freshly made sushi.

Soba

 Be sure to have a taste of Sashimi with Wasabi as an evidence that you have went through this counter.

Sushi

Enjoy the spread of Asian Food over here at their counters. Each dish was shone under the heat of the lamp.

Asian Food

 One of the Asian Food out of their selection is none other than the Dim Sums. Enjoy the spread!

Dim Sum

For those who need the proteins, these helpful stuff were all ready by the roast counter to slice any portion of meat you request.

Your Protein Area

 Here's one example of Mediterranean food and meat.

Mediterranean food and meat

Desserts are something diners filled their stomach with before asking for bill. Needless to say, the mouthwatering spreads of cakes, creme burlee, ice creams were all out for the Sweet Tooth.

Cakes and Desserts

An innovative way of preparing a small portion of creme burlee in a saucer. Love the top caramlised layer that was easily broken by a gentle touch of the spoon.

Creme Burlee

Enjoy different shapes of marsh mallows over sweet fondues flavour like Chocolate, Green tea and strawberry.

Fondue and marshmellows

For cooling dessert, scoop some ice cream onto your bowl.

Ice Cream Serving

For a healthier choice, enjoy the fun of making yourselves a cup of yoghurt over their machine and topped them up with your rainbow rice, cereals etc.

Yoghurt

With a prompt and friendly service, I did have a different dining experience in Carousel. To add on, Carousel had created a wonderful atmosphere for diners who are celebrating the birthday. Here's the Video of how they celebrated the diner's birthday.

Rating: 4.5 / 5

Carousel
Location: Royal Plaza On Scotts, 25 Scotts Road, Lobby Level, Singapore 228220

Xing Yun Wanton Mee

Steer your steps to 2 stalls towards the left of the famous nameless Hainanese Curry Rice in Beo Crescent if you could not bear the wait.

And if you do not mind having noodles, this Noodle Wanton Stall offers a fuss free service - one do not have to self service and food is rather fast in serving after ordering.

Xing Yun Wanton mee Stall at the background

I could not resists but to order the chicken feet noodles. Noodles were springy doused in dark sauce while the greens were boiled and tucked by the side of the plate with 2 big gigantic looking claws / feet.

Chicken Feet Noodles - $4

These chicken feet were the biggest I had ever encountered so far throughout my tries of chicken feet noodles. The deep fried feet were braised but not thoroughly thus, it did not really bring out the spice flavour. What a miss though they were big!

Big chicken Feet

Dumplings aka "Shui jiao" was nothing more than ordinary. Perhaps one thing to note was that the stock was very tasty and this should review the amount of MSG used in the soup.

Dumplings Soup - $4

Rating: 3 / 5

Xing Yun Wanton Mee
Location: He Bing Yuan, Blk 40 Beo Crescent, Singapore 160040

Beo Crescent No Name Hainanese Curry Rice

Dont judge a book by it's cover. Well, for those who walk by the old school place in Beo Crescent, who will actually thought that such nameless stall sell delicious Hainanese Curry Rice? Having heard of its popularity, I wanted to try them up so much since years ago. However their business was way too good that their operations ended everytime before I could make it.

I'm not a Curry Rice Eater when it comes to breakfast meal but I have no choice but to visit them on a early Sunday morning since I wanted to have a taste and verify if it was really good as I was told.

There was already a long queue formed when I was there, I thought that must be real good as who will actually have curry rice in the early morning. Perhaps their taste was really exceptional!

Beo Crescent No Name Hainanese Curry Rice Stall

The usual style of a plate of curry png, the messy looking ingredients over the white rice with 3 kinds of sauce that drench them all over with part of them looked as if they were overflowing.

The braised cabbages is also one of the must have items on such plate. Servings were generous with one big scoop of them hidden under the tau pok. They were boiled till softens and was naturally sweet.

Curry Rice & Food Items - $3.80

For eggs lover, their sunny side up comes with black sauce mixed altogether in the presence of the aromatic gravy.

Egg and Gravy

The must order item for every visit, the crispy pork! What makes them so unique? Their meat was marinated, thinly chopped into fine bits and fried under the burning fire, thus forming its cripsy texture. And together with their signature curry gravy, the taste was fantastic! Uber Yummy!

Close up of pork chop

What's more to say, are you drooling all over now?  It's definitely worth the calories, providing a good energy boost that last through out the day. If you are thinking of Scisscors Curry Rice, why not head down to Beo Crescent for a tastebuds test!

Rating: 4.5 / 5

Beo Crescent No Name Hainanese Curry Rice
Location: He Bing Yuan, Blk 40 Beo Crescent, Singapore 160040

One of the common dessert that we always share is Ice Kachang. Just after our meals over lunch, we decided to share a bowl of dessert to cool ourselves down especially when the weather was quite bad lately.

Desserts Stall

We had the classic shaved ice with smashed red beans topped the peak of the color hill of the Ice. It came in typical red, lime green, yellow and brown colors. Instead of having a sharp peak, the bowl of dessert was shaped nicely by Kopitiam Stall helpers, quite different from what we have from the hawkers. Taste wise, the texture of the shave ice was soft and melts instantly when it landed onto our tongues. Sweetness and ingredients were more of the average, nothing much that gave the WoW factor from the simple bowl of cooling dessert.

Ice Kachang

Rating: 3 / 5

Desserts - Kopitiam

Location: JCube, 2 Jurong East Central 1 #B1-19, Singapore 609731

Dough Culture

Dough Culture which specialised in fried fritters is a place to fix your Youtiao craving after a long walkabout in our sunny island, Sentosa. It is strategically located in one of the shops next to Sentosa Monorail station and definitely a good location to attract hungry consumers who are caught in the queue while waiting for their transport. What's more, they are halal certified.

Dough Culture

What is YouTiao without Soyabean milk since they are a pair. Well, one can never separate them!

Soyabean Milk

I had these 2 staple items in my combo which cost me $2.60. I felt that it is reasonable as I had expected to pay more since I'm in somewhere where the tourists are. The printings on its cup were cute, representated by a doughstick cartoon character with a crown on its head.

Soyabean milk drink was not sweet and definitely cooling for someone like me who will melt under the sun. The youtiao aka doughstick was not oily, however it was not that crunchy, perhaps I told them no when I was asked if the Youtiao was to be reheated.

Combo meal - $2.60

Rating: 3 / 5

Dough Culture
Location: Resorts World Sentosa, 8 Sentosa Gateway (The Bull Ring), Singapore 098269

Ban Mian . Fish Soup - Kopitiam

Nowadays, having a Ban Mian stall in Food Court is very common, just like a chicken rice stall, which naturally comes as a part of the community in among the hawkers. Home Made Noodles (Ban Mian) become available almost everywhere and thus the sweet MSG soup loaded with fried ikan billis & fried onions were simply the basic expectations from a bowl of Ban Mian.

Environment

I had You Mian from the Ban Mian Stall in Kopitiam of JCube. The helpers took about as little as 3 minutes to serve my order just by adding minced pork and vegetables together with the noodles into the broth coupled with a few stirs, thereafter pour the "mixture" into my bowl. 

Bowl of You Mian - $3.50

The taste did fall within my expectations as a stomach filler with an average taste. Usually such meal would lead me to having glasses of water thereafter and so it did. If you are looking for a stomach filler, this should fit your criteria.

A closer look on the You Mian

Rating: 3 / 5

Ban Mian . Fish Soup - Kopitiam
Location: JCube, 2 Jurong East Central 1 #B1-19, Singapore 609731

Habib Rojak

Habib Rojak is one of the Halal Stalls located in Pasir Panjang Food Centre. They are easily located among the stretch of Halal eateries.Indian Rojak is always attractive to me especially when its bright attractive color flavoured fried stuffs were all stacked nicely accordingly on the shelf, somehow asking me to come closer and pick them up.

Stall of Habib Rojak

Just like the Typical Chinese Rojak (Goh Hiong / Wu Xiang), one is to choose their favourite staff from the display and hand over to the shop helpers to warm them up again.

Since it was lunch time during my time of visit, the guy who was manning the stall was as busy as a bee. There were customers non stop and he had to fried the selected food items plate after plate thus his expression on face was not looking too good.

Sauce given was warm and not too spicy. The fried stuff were crunchy and was rather fresh to me. One thing about its cuttlefish was its texture, it tasted quite soft and more like pig's skin than the sea creature.

Overall, I would say that the taste was average and price falls within market's standard.

Selection of Rojak - $10 shared by 4

Rating: 3 / 5

Habib Rojak
Location: Pasir Panjang Food Centre, 121 Pasir Panjang Road, #01-27 , Singapore 118543