Plaza Brasserie at Parkroyal – Simple Fares, Unpretentious Food

I confess. I have a weird fetish. I like blue colored food. For martinis, I don’t care what flavor it is so long as it is blue. My favorite bubble tea flavor is blue coral. And for m&m’s? Yes, the blue candies are my favorite! Anything edible that is blue and not too weird, it will likely be a favorite of mine. It’s something to do with blue being a unique food color. Can you name ten everyday foods that are blue in color?

Like these agar-agar (jelly) in assorted colors. I love the blue ones!

This plate of colorful agar-agar is part of the Asian buffet in plaza brasserie at parkroyal hotel. Boy, it’s already my fourth buffet in the past one month! Looking at the frightening quantity and rate that I eat at, some people ask me how I watch my weight. It’s simple enough: I don’t! But you guys wouldn’t actually know that I’m practically ballooning behind this blog persona, would you?

Just as colorful as the agar-agar was the stained glass ceiling at plaza brasserie! It was a half-filled restaurant on a weekday evening. The buffet spread wasn’t as large as I had anticipated. But well, at just $33 per person for a hotel dinner buffet, I shan’t complain much now. Besides, I had written it all down in the little white feedback card.

Kung pao chicken is a staple in any Asian buffet. It is always cooked in a nice dark sauce with dried chili. A good kung pao chicken dish should also have cashew nuts. The kung pao dish at plaza brasserie had both chili and cashews. But guess what? It didn’t have chicken! It had Turkey instead! Wow, I had never seen kung pao Turkey before. It was good, although chicken would work better.

My favorite dish of the night was the soft shell crab tempura. It was light, nicely fried, and tasted of yumminess when dipped into mayonnaise.

At the Indian food station, roti prata (indian flatbread) was made in assorted flavors. There was the usual egg and plain prata, as well as sardine and banana prata. But the best one had to be this:

Chocolate prata! I’ve never had roti prata in chocolate flavor before!

I thought it might taste a little odd because chocolate and roti prata didn’t seem to mesh. But the combination was surprisingly yummilicious! And utterly sinful too!

Desserts in cute little shot-glasses. There was tiramisu, blueberry and a range of other fruity flavors available.

Still, I would have liked to see more desserts available, such as some of those bite-sized cakes in different flavors. But I’m glad they had a chocolate fountain. It kind of saved the day!

It was a five-tier fountain similar to the one at Cafébiz in Traders Hotel. I tend to judge the quality of a buffet by whether it has a chocolate fountain. And I’m glad plaza brasserie had one, along with marshmallow dippers and hard biscuits. Yay!

Sadly, I wouldn’t return for another buffet. The price is decent but the buffet spread is simply too small! Not too satisfying for a big eater like me!

Plaza Brasserie
Parkroyal on Beach Road
7500 Beach Road Singapore 199591
(65) 6298 0011
$33+++
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www.parkroyalhotels.com