• Update: The Dining Room is open only to Crockfords Tower Hotel guests.
With all the buzz surrounding Resorts World at Sentosa, some of you may be looking to spend some time over here. Perhaps you are also curious about the dining options. What restaurants are there? Are they affordable?
After watching movies like Ocean’s Eleven, casinos give me the impression of being brimming with tycoons and rich people that have the ability to blow cash freely at the tables. So, the restaurants at a casino resort must be really posh and unaffordable for the general population, right?
Wrong. The Dining Room at Crockfords Tower Hotel, one of the six at the Sentosa Integrated Resorts, offers an array of Cantonese dishes that are surprisingly inexpensive (see menu below). You would also find a rare dessert delicacy here that I would urge everybody to try at least once, because it is pretty darn good!
Let’s start with the dim sum. A selection of dim sum is available, including the crowd favourites like xiao long bao, har kow and siew mai.
S$4.80++
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But our favourite is the scallop dumpling. This comes in threes, each one topped with a slice of sweet scallop. What they don’t tell you is that it also contains a plump, juicy prawn! Seafood lovers rejoice!
S$4.80++
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The xiao long bao is your standard soupy dumpling with a thick and chewy skin, served with a vinegar and ginger dip. It is quite tasty, albeit a tad salty for people that are looking for something milder. As far as the xiao long bao is concerned, the ones at Crystal Jade are still unbeatable. Everyone agree?
S$9.80++
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The seafood rice in chicken broth is something new for me. I always had the impression that porridge is “sick man’s food” because that’s what our parents like to feed us when we are ill. That is, until I tasted my first bowl of congee that actually made me feel wonderful.
Well, this one is even better than that. It is basically a cross between porridge, rice and soup. Okay, so it is really just rice in soup, but it tastes much better than it sounds and looks. You get fresh seafood and various kinds of vegetables in the chicken broth. The combination is chock-full with flavour and the perfect comfort food. Forget porridge; this nutritious combo is what I’d like to have when I’m sick. Decent price, too.
S$19.80++
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What we find less decently priced is the grouper. Now, I am certainly no fish expert, but I got a fishy feeling about this. Is grouper an expensive fish? For that price, three rather small slices is quite a skimpy portion. We do enjoy it nonetheless, thanks to the tomatoes and the unusual but much-welcome ingredient of beaten eggs that lends an additional richness.
S$10.80++ for 3
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The best part of this meal is hands-down the aforementioned bird’s nest egg tart. We really have the chef to thank for this. He had already run out of the tarts, but he made a few more specially for us.
To be honest, we were sceptical when we first saw this item on the menu, thinking that the bird’s nest was simply a gimmick. To our surprise, each egg tart comes topped with a sizable heap of bird’s nest. Oodles of squeal-inducing, rock sugary sweet bird’s nest on a warm delicious egg tart! We are delighted! Right there and then, we have tasted the best egg tarts we’ve ever had in our lives!
If you are looking to impress that hard-to-please mother-in-law or pamper your partner, this, I can imagine, is quite perfect.
While the official website indicates otherwise, a check with the staff reveals that the restaurant is open 24 hours daily. This is to cater to hotel guests and patrons of the 24-hour casino. No one goes hungry!
Resorts World Sentosa
Crockfords Tower, Level 2
Service:
Tel: +65 6577 889 | Website
Menu: Starters | Main courses | Desserts
24 hours daily
Open only to Crockfords Tower Hotel guests
Resorts World at Sentosa
Check out what you can expect at the rest of Resorts World at Sentosa. Want more desserts? Head over to Boulangerie at Festive Hotel.
Jan 25, 2010
137
The food here looks good, worth considering when I go to the IR.
I find Din Tai Fung xiao long bao not bad. Of course, the queues are always long.
Jan 25, 2010
3472
I vaguely remember having the Xiao Long Bao at Din Tai Fung although it did not leave me with a long lasting impression. After a while they all start to taste similar, except for the really good ones.
Jan 25, 2010
6
not cheap.. obviously~~ haha
but still feel like trying cos it’s at IR!!
Jan 25, 2010
3472
Yeah, certainly not a budget restaurant. The prices fall within same the range of the popular Chinese restaurant chains.
Jan 25, 2010
13
I had bird’s nest egg tart once in my life. And oh my was it a delightful experience. I remember it like it was yesterday despite the fact that it might have been 5 so years since.
For that, in my opinion is worth the trip to Singapore.
Jan 25, 2010
3472
Can you easily find bird’s nest and egg tarts in LA? I imagine you can simply make your own bird’s nest egg tart. Wow, the virgin experience of eating one really sticks with you. Where did you have it before?
Jan 25, 2010
51
wahz! ok, this i have to go try… minus the egg tart of course.
Jan 25, 2010
3472
But… that is the must-try!
Jan 26, 2010
51
not a very tarty kinda guy… crumbling pastries… same thing with pineapple tarts… fluff aftertaste all over the mouth… CNY i give you the tarts my clients send me? wana?
Jan 26, 2010
3472
Okay! I know what you mean about that aftertaste. I’m not very fond of crumbly, flaky pastries myself especially if they are dry. My mom loves them though, especially pineapple tarts and those char siew crumbles. Egg tarts are still yummy for me because of the moist egg custard :)
Jan 26, 2010
1
Hi :-)
Must say the food pics and your blog are amazing.
Thank you !!!
Jan 27, 2010
10
The Din Tai Fung’s can beat Crystal Jade’s hands down, in my opinion of course :D
Love how you post up entry after entry, uploading all the pictures and write your reviews all so beautifully. But i still prefer the previous design which was more sophisticated and more professional-looing!! This current one may albeit be more user-friendly but the previous design is definitely prettier!
Feb 9, 2010
1
Hi Veron,
I just called The Dining Room and was surprised to find out that they only allow hotel guests and by invitation only.. (sadly i’m on neither of the lists), will you know any other good affordable restaurants that allows the general public?
Feb 9, 2010
3472
That is news to me, too! The staff hadn’t mentioned anything like that to me even as I was inquiring about their opening hours. I have dropped a mail to someone at RWS with your questions. Hope to get some answers soon.
Feb 10, 2010
3472
One of the staff at Resorts World Sentosa has just confirmed that The Dining Room is open only to Crockfords Tower Hotel guests.
Meanwhile she gave me a list of restaurants that are open to the public: Palio, Starz, Rang Mahal, Chili’s, Rock Deli To Go, Boulangerie and Fiesta.
I have a review for Boulangerie coming up soon (it’s a bakery at the Festive Hotel lobby). As for Chili’s, here’s my review for their Tanglin Mall restaurant. The menu should be similar at Sentosa.
Feb 11, 2010
137
That’s bad news for those of us wanting to have a taste of the bird nest eggtart after hearing your rave review. Hope they will change their policy.
Feb 11, 2010
3472
When we first went there, we found the restaurant rather small. That may be the reason why it can cater only to the in-house guests.
Feb 11, 2010
137
Everything looks quite normal except for the eggtart.
Feb 19, 2010
50
Hi Veron,
First visit to your redesign site, somehow I still prefer the earlier version.
Have you been to the casinos at Vegas ? Some of them actually have 2 hot pots in the hotel rooms, filled with bird nests n shark fins soup. They r refilled as n when they r half full.
And guess what, they come free of charge !
Regards
:p
Feb 19, 2010
3472
Wow! I wonder how much it costs a night for a room with free-flowing shark’s fun and bird’s nest!