Peach Garden Dim Sum Buffet - Thomson Plaza

 

As my birthday falls on a Sunday this year, and coincidentally, we have a long weekend before the Sunday (thanks to Hari Raya), we decided to try out Peach Garden's dim sum as it has been a long time since we last had one.

 

Thomson's Peach Garden dim sum buffet is currently running a promotion - 25% off the total bill with at least 4 diners. It was almost full house on Friday afternoon (and most of us had made reservations in advance). So given the turnout, I was thinking this must be good...

 

To my disappointment, the fried dim sum spread that were pushed and distributed by the aunties were all cold, so those dim sum lost the crisp and crunch touch. The steam ones were piping hot but the more popular items like har kow and siew mai ran out fast. We had to wait for a while before the new batches were pushed out in the carts. My other disappointment was that there were not much variety offered and the quantities were rather low. Although the buffet's period is from 3-5pm, the food was not continuously replenished from 3-5pm. I think they stopped pushing out food even before 4pm and whatever's that's left in the carts or table were whatever which were left for diners like us to feast on. As this was our first visit (and my last!!!!), we didn't know that we had to grab the fruits first before they were gone as the restaurant didn't replenish them after the first platter. I asked the waitress and even the manager if there will be any more fruits to be replenish, their blunt reply to me was no. And that was only 4pm to be exact. This is the worst buffet spread I had ever had to be honest.

 

We asked Ethan to help both of us to take a shot and he took a selfie on purpose instead!

Then his misson was accomplished...

 

Then he reluctantly joined in for a family shot...

Finally, he smiled!

Best dish of the buffet - Har Kow..

2nd best - Ice Cream! We have to queue up to get them...

Each of us had a 'sandwich' each..

Verdict:
Har Kow - Good
Siew Mai - So-So
Egg Tart - small and cold
Porridge - slightly cold but tasty
Steamed Glutinous Rice - Nice
Fried Prawn dumplings - cold
Beancurd skin roll - tasty but cold
Spicy carrot cake - Tasty but too spicy for the kids

I had dim sum buffet at Ju Chun Yuan Restaurant at Far East Square before with my colleagues and each item was served hot.. so if we were to hunt for a dim sum buffet again, we will probably head for Ju Chun Yuan.

Other recommendations which are non-buffet will be:
1) Imperial Treasure - Great world city
2) East Ocean - Ngee Ann city
3) Royal China - Raffles hotel
4) The Cathay Restaurant (Handy road)
5) Crystal Jade