Add up to previous buffet lunch at Eastern & Oriental Hotel, it will be 4 times in 2 months, I got the opportunity to dine in restaurant at hotel. This time, I dined at Coffee Garden, Equatorial Hotel, Penang. At the fringes of the swimming pool and waterfall, the Coffee Garden offers both local and Western fare and nightly buffers. For sure, I won't try the exciting international dinner buffets at Coffee Garden after having lunch there.
Compared with E&O Sarkie's Corner Buffet, Coffee Garden got nothing much to eat. The sushi corner at Sarkie's Corner got Salmon sushi, California roll, reverse roll and so on. Look at the sushi at Coffee Garden:
It is so pathetic. Luckily, they have this cold soba to add up in the Japanese section.
What next? I'm so lost that I can't find any good food to eat at Coffee Garden. I don't want simply stuck any food to make me full. Then I found the Nasi Lemak, hiding at the corner.
So far, Nasi Lemak is the only best dish in Coffee Garden. The rest is normal. People used to recommend the dessert at Equatorial Hotel. However, I find it nothing special, it just a bunch of sweet. In fact, it is over sweet to spoil the idea of dessert.
None of the dessert above is good although it look temptation.
I said I admired Intel's employee because their company treat them so well. Once again, I saw Intel's employee dined in here. Some more in 2 different group. One is team building group while the other might be departmental lunch treat. I said it is good to be Intel's employee. However, some Inteler tell me, it is not what you saw, they are working like hell in office political environment. To survive, you need to back stab people at the same time smile in front of your victim....
Hm...a bit too much for my food blog. I just know you guys can eat at pricey hotel buffet at the expenses of Intel.
3 times in 2 weeks, I got the opportunities to have lunch at Hotel's restaurant. I seldom eat buffet if got choices because every time I eat buffet, I will out of control and stuck too much food that I can handle which make all hard work at gym to drain.
I so admire people who work in Intel because in 3 out of 3 times, there sure will have Intel workers table reservation or Intel employee (with their Intel badge on) roaming for food at counter. Best part is, I saw the same guys twice in Equatorial Hotel and E&O Hotel.
With my experience in eating buffet, I start to have a my own routine to eat the unlimited, free flow of food with limited tummy space. At the same time, also eat healthy by not simply eat something that look good that make you uncomfortable later.
First, you need to eat fruits. I learned that fruits should eat before meal, not after meal because it digest faster. So, should go first.
Then continue with Sashimi, Salmon and Sushi. Salmon rich in omega-3 fatty acid which good for health. Just to name a few that omega-3 fatty acids can help. Example Depression, Cardiovascular Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Fatigue, Dry, itchy skin, Brittle hair and nails, Inability to concentrate, Join pain.....I bet you'll try to eat sashimi when you know the benefit
Next, is the famous dish of Sarkie's Corner, the roasted duck. Some said if you didn't eat roasted duck in E&O hotel, then you are tag as never eat buffet here. It may not so healthy to eat roasted duck. So, I add in 2 slides of tomato to balance up.....lol
You see, when you eat buffet you should start off with small size animal like fish. Then move up to medium size animal to duck and lamb. If you start off with lamb first, then the duck taste will not be so good and the salmon sashimi will be tasteless when you already ate the stronger taste of lamb.
Before eat grilled lamb, I looking the best value for money in E&O buffet which is the grilled cod fish. However, the cod fish just not simply available even by asking. So, I end with a replacement grilled Salmon and Tuna.
Salmon best eat as sashimi. For grilled, I only like the Salmon skin. The meat of grilled salmon tasteless. So, I try it with mint sauce and roasted duck sauce. By this time, normally people should be 70% full which is good to stop eating. However, if you got bigger "tank", then you can try something local like the Char Koay Teow and Laksa
It may not taste like the famous Char Koay Teow at Lorong Selamat but it got a real big prawn hidden inside the koay teow.
Oh, Laksa bek ki (cannot go) luckily it just small portion else, it just waste space in my tummy.
When I go to Sabah, people recommend me affogato at Little Italy at Kota Kinabalu town, a small cup of affogato will cost you RM9.90 not including tax. I don't bother as you go to travel, you just spend. Since you already dine in buffet, you know you can prepare your own affogato free flow?
Pump the espresso from coffee machine and scoop 2-3 ball of vanilla ice-cream into the coffee, tada....affogato. You can even pump double espresso if you immune to caffeine. For me, I will sleepless whole night if double espresso.
Some said your meal didn't complete without dessert. For dessert, I only like bread pudding. However, that day is Banana bread pudding which not so good. I still prefer original bread pudding.
I already miss Salmon sashimi now (at time of writing this post)
