Sakura@Orchard Shopping Centre

This place was swarming with people on a friday night!
My colleague was telling me about this place for its value and wide variety of buffet. At first i thought it was pure japanese buffet restaurant, but hell no! Not only did they serve sushi, cold soba, sashimi, teppanyaki but PIZZAs! and TOM YUM SOUP!!!!

i think for price on a weekend buffet, it's quite affordable. Just the two of us, the bill came out to be $60 (inclu. of taxes and service charges).

But i will never come back again.

Because i didn't like the flooring, the partitions, the whole noisy fish market ambience, even the clearing area for the dishes were left too "open" for everyone else to see, some parts of the floor was wet and slippery...in all, once is good enough a visit for me.

here's a quick summary of what we tried, i had 4 full plates of salmon sashimi (i had a mad craving for salmon that day), baked oysters, fresh and baked scallops, some broccoli on the side, mussels, tom yum soup(this ah i got to complain, when it came there was hardly any soup in there!), lamb rack teppanyaki (this one was a clear favourite amongst the diners cos it has the most clips), dou-miao teppanyaki, some very forgettable sushi, beef teppankayi....i think that's about it...of cos, mr goh washed down all his food with 2 cups of coke while i had 3 cups of lipton tea...gosh i missed hot tea that night too!

That's the clips which u will find on your table. You are suppose to take them to the teppanyaki or soup counters , clip it to the item that you want and the chefs will prepare them on the spot for you. But of cos like the hot favourite - lamb rack, we waited a good half's hour before it came!
So in the mean time, it's more salmon sashimi for me!!!!

it's retro night that friday...hahah so im all dressed up very "boogie night"

And we met our colleagues there too! what a small world rite? So everyone is dining out here....but it's so mass-market..i felt abit like i was back in JC where everyone dines at Seoul Garden or Ponderosa. It was really weird. Hmm, back to the food bit, the dou-miao had very nice chewy sliced mushrooms on top of it. This was hmm, quite a good effort.

Next, beef teppanyaki - Not nice, small pieces, tough and not well marinated. Came luke-warm. Not piping hot.
So it's more salmon sashimi for me again!!!!

AH-HA! finally the lamb has arrived! But again, not hot at all!!! And the Tom yum soup..can you see how little the soup was in the clay pot???? huh huh? aiyoh...


lastly, this is the partition i was telling you about, chicken mesh kind...tsk tsk...do i feel like a chicken man.

Orchard Shopping Centre
321 Orchard Road 2^nd Storey, Singapore 238866
Tel: 6735 8197