Sunday, March 11, 2007

Vienna International Seafood Buffet - United Square

I just tried Vienna International Seafood and Teppanyaki Buffet at United Square. It is surprisingly good

It has a decent variety of sashimi and lots of seafood. I think they have more seafood than meat The oysters were super big size - wanted to take picture to show the size but didn't in the end. There were crayfish, tiger prawns, mussels, crabs, yabbies for the cold sides. All were very fresh too. The sushi were not that great, rice a bit dry and hard.

Cooked seafood - crab tang hoon, chili crabs, black pepper crabs, cereal prawns, scallops on shell, baked oysters au gratin, bbq eel, tempura prawns, teppanyaki prawns

Didn't try all the food, but I just don't recall being at a buffet where there were so much seafood before. Even more than at The Line or Melt or elsewhere.

They replenished the food very frequently too. For teppanyaki, the steak and lamb chops were nicely done. Lots of different types of soups too. Dessert is not that fantastic but not too bad. Average. Only 3 types of cakes - chocolate, blueberry cheesecake and durian mousse cake. There is a chocolate fountain and some local kuehs.

Value for money place if you are into seafood. Go somewhere else if you prefer a better dessert spread and salad bar or western food.

**What I tried -
oysters: amazingly huge and very fresh, none of the "fishy" smell or taste
yabbie and crayfish: tenderly sweet
half of crab: a bit tough to dig out the meat, but it was sweet too
sashimi - salmon, maguro, and 2 other types of white fish: fresh, I can just eat salmon sashimi whole day
2 pieces of sushi: dry and tough
BBQ eel: can't go wrong with it
peking duck wrapped in crepe: not bad
crab tang hoon: just took the tang hoon, very nice
cereal prawns: nice! like the cereal
egg tofu: can't go wrong too
beef steak/lamb chop: well done but still very tender soft
tempura prawn: nicely done, not soggy
some soup filled with chicken, wolfberries, mushroom, abalone?, and others - very good
dragonfruit dipped in chocolates, chocolate cake, blueberry cheesecake, vienna cheesecake, durian mousse, fried durian pastry

**Disclaimer: I didn't finish the whole thing, but I had bites from the list :P

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