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| Popiah Station |
Quality
Cafe at Quality Hotel Marlow are renowned by supper lovers in
Singapore as a place to go for Taiwan Porridge Buffet. However, don't
be misled by the name of Taiwan Porridge Buffet, expect to see buffet
dishes to fill your stomach.
Helmed
by Chef Donald Sai, with more than 27 years experience in F&B
industry, Quality Cafe launched Authentic Asian Buffet for lunch.
This buffet consist of many popular local dishes such as laksa,
popiah, chicken rice, roast duck, cereal prawn, steamed sea bass with
olive, otah and lots more from soup to desserts.
To
start, I recommend you start with popiah. Popiah is a Hokkien style
type of spring roll, where the skin are made thinly from sticky soft
dough. The skin here is very moist and soft, with the right
thickness. The vegetables, sweet sauce and chilli is well balance.
The fillings is not wet and the crush peanuts gave the crunchy
texture. The best part, there is chef stationed there to make sure
you get the best popiah every time.
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| Popiah |
Next
is the bowl of Laksa. The ingredients here is very simple. Rice
noodle, bean sprout, fish cake, boiled eggs, the laksa gravy, laksa
leaf and chilli. The gravy has is quite thick and full of coconut
flavour. In Peranakan terms, the lemak is quite shiok. Simple but
delicious.
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| Laksa Station |
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| Laksa |
For
main meal, the chicken rice here is a must try. The rice if fragrant
and flavourful. The rice cooked to al-dente with a good chicken
stock. The chicken is quite tender especially the thigh part, however
the breast can be a bit though. The plus side, they also Thai Chicken
Feet. Rather than chicken feet, it is more like the skin from the
chicken feet. It is crunchy and springy in texture. The marination is
just right for my palate, not overly spicy. They also provide the
full condiments such as chilli, ginger juice, dark soy sauce and acar
(spicy pickled cucumber)
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| Thai Chicken Feet & Steam Chicken |
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| The Condiments |
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| Chicken Rice ++ |
Some
dishes to accompany the chicken rice is their Otah and Roast Duck.
The Otah is the Chef Special Dish and made in house in Quality Cafe's
kitchen. It has a nice texture, smooth and resilient at the same
time. It can be slightly salty, which Chef Donald mention is due to
the Thai Chilli Paste. The roast duck has a nice crispy skin and the
meat is very tender.
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| Otah & Roast Duck |
For fish lover, they
serve a huge steam sea bass with dried turnip (cai bo). The sea bass
is quite huge, about 50 cm long. The cooking method and olive really
bring out the taste of sea bass. However, as it is left in the bain
marie, the steam fish slowly become over cook and harden. The frog
leg that are fried with spring onion and ginger here is also quite
huge. It is one of the biggest size frog leg I ever see. I heard that
the more frog legs you eat, the stronger your leg become in swimming.
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| Steam Sea Bass with Turnip |
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| Frog Leg |
Like many buffet places,
there are some dishes that not up to standard. In this case, I would
not suggest the Char Kway Teow, or any of their deep fried stuff.
If you have enough of
your fill, time to move on to desserts. Build your won Cendol or Ice
Kacang is available. You can choose your own ingredients to create
your Singapore cold desserts just the way you like it. Or you can
choose from range of peranakan desserts or goreng pisang with your
coffee or tea.
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| Little Devil's Chendol |
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| Peranakan Desserts |
The service staff here is
very attentive and efficient to clear the dirty plates from your
table. During our weekday lunch here, the cafe is pretty packed.
Overall, if you are
looking for quality buffet of Singapore local food, you can give
Quality Cafe a try. The price is very reasonable and you can get the
authentic Singaporean food. See the brochure below for more details. Cheers!!
Thank you Faith and
Quality Cafe team for the food tasting invitation.
Food
& Drink: 7/10
Value:
8/10
Service:
7/10
Ambiance:
6.5/10
Quality Cafe
201
Balestier Road
Quality
Hotel Marlow
Level
1.
Singapore
329926
Tel:
6233 6363
Op Hours:
Lunch 11.30 – 14.30
Daily
Dinner 18.00 – 20.00
Daily
Supper 20.30 – 00.30
Daily
