dim sum! dim sum!

at peony jade restaurant, located in out-of-the-way keppel bay. many thanks to min for the ride in (and out!) – forgive my laziness in putting one long collage instead of patiently uploading and captioning.

for those who are considering giving this buffet a try, bring $37 per pax and prepare to stuff yourself with:

• shrimp dumpling (a.k.a HAR KOW)
• shrimp dumpling with pork (a.k.a SIEW MAI)
• carrot cake
• carrot cake with beansprouts in XO sauce
• prawn rice roll
• char siew rice roll
• dumplings in hot & sour sauce (a.k.a JIAO ZI)
• glutinous rice in lotus leaf
• pheonix feet
• vegetarian spring roll
• beancurd skin roll with prawns
• fried prawn roll
• cha siew so
• custard and salted yolk bao (a.k.a LIU SHA BAO)
• steamed sponge cake
• plain congee
• pork & century egg congee
• fried dumpling (?)
• fried sweet potato
• fried po piah
• roast meat – char siew
• roast meat – duck
• roast meat – chicken
• roast meat – spare ribs
• greens – choy-sum
• greens – amaranth
• greens – broccoli
• greens – kai-lan
• greens – asparagus
• greens – spinach
• carbos – beef hor fun
• carbos – chicken & black mushroom noodles
• carbos – seafood fried rice
• desserts – fried red bean pancake
• desserts – mango with sago
• desserts – almond longan beancurd
• desserts – sea coconut
• desserts – red bean soup
• desserts – fruits

(in bold are the ones i particularly like! in italics are the ones i didn’t try… the liu sha bao for the day weren’t runny enough, but do give it a try – you might get lucky. and it’s a buffet after all!)

thinking back to it, i still feel stuffed. it has convinced me that i’ve grown too old to make buffets worth their hefty price tags. *tummy rub*

(group pictures here)