Window On The Park

Decided to trust my friend's recommendation against a bad experience a few years back, plus heard they had renovated and all that and thought they deserved a 2nd chance.

I think having a 1-4-1 buffet dinner thingy with UOB and DBS cards is part of their efforts at getting the crowd in and it seems to work. The place was completely full on a Wednesday night by 7:30pm and the age group varies by quite a bit.

Bread / Soup - various kind of bread which remained largely untouched for some reason. I tried a plain roll but it was cold and hard. There were 2 soups that night - winter melon with chicken and cream of celery, obviously out to please both asian and western palettes.The winter melon was very good actually, clear and tasted like what a double boiled soup should taste like. The cream of celery was not too thick which I liked, but no hint of celery at all (??).

Appetizers - roasted chicken salad, ham salad, chilli mussels, jellyfish etc - the roasted chicken salad was very lean but the others were average. There was also a salad bar which I didnt try.

Seafood - they only had cold prawns that night which I'm not sure if that's the usual spread, but they were quite fresh and refilled quite regularly. Japanese - salmon sashmi and assorted sushi - sashimi slices were generous; didnt try the sushi though. Mains - pasta, potato balls, stir fried veg, grilled fish, fried rice, fried black pepper kwuey teow, back pepper crab, kebab - most of the mains were asian dishes and were popular with the kwuey teow being the best. Most went for the crab but it was too messy an affair for me. The chicken for the kebab was nice, and the pasta alio olio was surprisingly not bad being a buffet item. One of my friends absolutley loved the grilled fish.

Noodle station - a live noodle cooking station where you cook your noodles, add soup and condiments youself, that comes complete with a electronic screen showing looping cooking instructions. Self cooking so often has people hovering and miling around, so I skipped it. Desserts - assorted kueys, fruit tarts, ice cream, waffles and crepes, complete with multiple choices of toppings. The waffles and crepes were quite nice especially when its hot off the cooking plate (chef does it on the spot), but ice creams were normal.

Coffee / Tea - a coffee machine to get your caffaeine fix plus a good variety of tea bags to choose from. Not bad!

Yusheng - A self-service concept where you assemble your own yusheng. Quite fun, plus the ingredients were fresh as well.

I was happy that I gave this place a shot as I think that it is more than worth it with the 1-4-1 promotion, but the full price of $54 per pax would have been atrocious for the variety and quality. We each paid $31 and was all quite satisfied with dinner. Would be keen to come back and see what they offer non-CNY.

But where you're seated plays a part in the experience as well. I was unlucky enough to be seated at the table closet to the entrance of the restaurant and had to bear with people taking shortcuts tp get out: bumping into my seat then and trying to wedge their way through.