Review Pelanggan untuk PASOLA - Hotel The Ritz Carlton Pacific Place

When I think of buffet, my mind goes to huge variety of choices. Here, sadly not so much. Then the station was way too small and close to each other. In other word, too crowded. Imagine lot of people try to take their meal at once, quite chaos and long queue guarenteed.
Then the taste was pretty mediocre. Nothing really stood out. When it comes to buffet, I do lower my standard. Most of hotel buffet do the same thing, the quality of the food is always compromised and focus on the varieties instead. But like I said before, the choices here's not so much. Lacked of varieties and not so tasty, quite disappointed. Especially it's Ritz Carlton, I expected something more than that. But yeah, the service was friendly. Plus point for that one.
The sushi station was the one that I hate the most. The salmon was okey, like any hotel. Yes they did have unagi and showed it at the cold case. Not hide it like the others. *ps: always ask for it and if they have it, they'll give it to you*. However, it tasted too fishy. I just didn't enjoy that at all.
The seafood station was also pretty sad. Only some kind of clamp, cockles and shrimp. Such a boring station. But taste wise, it's quite normal.
Then the chinese station, I don't know if I missed anything or what, but I only saw a shaomai bucket. I didn't try it, since it's empty and I ain't check it again.
Let's talk about the meat. I tasted their roasted duck, roasted chicken with lemon,  beef shank with rice angkak, oxtail and roasted barramundi acar pesmol.

The roasted duck was quite bland however no gamey taste. So plus point for that.

The roasted chicken with lemon was dry. The taste? Normal. No bomb flavor or whatsoever.

The beef shank was super tender. Love it. And it tasted like beef. I mean in a good way. I love how I could taste the natural goodness of that beef. Well, the rice angkak flavor could be found nowhere though.

Then the barramundi. It still tasted a bit fishy. Not really strong but the after taste was a bit nasty. I didn't taste the acar or got the actual acar either. So it's weird.

Special shoutout to the purple cabbage with balsamic. No beef left so I took the purple cabbage and it's good. Sour and refreshing and crunchy. All at the same time.
Then the dessert. They do had lot of choices like 7 or 8. I tasted their choco mouse or something like that, black sesame tart and of course the ice cream.

The choco mouse was supppeeerrr sweet, 1 bit and I could take more.

Then the tart was dry and flaky. And lacked of black sesame flavor.

After eating both of it, I had no intention to try the others. However, how could I ending the buffet without ice cream.
I went to the ice cream station and saw 4 or 5 flavors.  The cook told me that the ice cream was home made. Which is nice, most hotel bought the ice cream. I tried their chocolate and mango. The mango one was okey. Nothing special. But the chocolate was great. It almost similar with grom. And if you follow me long enough, you know how I love grom.

Then my eyes saw purple and white thingy in the corner of the table. It's blackberry and coconut granita. The cook recommended the blackberry. It tasted so so so good. Fruity, refreshing, sweet and bit sour. Love it.
Btw, that was my experience. Overall I don't really recommend this place. You can get a better buffet place with that price. But seems like everyone except me quite enjoying that selection of dishes. Am I too hard on them?

Since it's buffet, you may get different dish there. So don't hold my review that much.