Royale Restaurant Rasa Sayang BBQ Buffet from $38++ this Singapore Food Festival

When it comes to local delights, there are quite a few restaurants that serve a variety of local favourites. This season, in celebration of Singapore Food Festival, Mercure Singapore Bugis brings to you the Rasa Sayang BBQ Buffet at Royale Restaurant!

Here, you would find that it’s got a hearty local and international spread with popular items such as the seafood on ice (clams, scampi, prawns), assorted sushi, DIY Rojak, Fried Kway Teow, Snapper Fish Head Curry and Kampung Nasi Goreng!

On the plus side, the restaurant’s layout is superbly enchanting, furnished in an elegant vintage style!

Upon sitting down, the cordial staff served us a Bandung drink with pandan leaf (love this little detail!) It had just the right tone of milkiness, served chilled and was really tasty! A great start to this Rasa Sayang buffet, we believe!

Instead of a typical salad bar, we were pleasantly surprised with a DIY Rojak corner! There, you can make your own rojak with pineapples, apples, dried you-tiao pieces, grated peanuts, and more. We had our own mixed in with a gargantuan portion of assorted fruits, vegetables and sweet sauce too!

We were very excited about the outdoor live Asian BBQ station. It was also the first time that Royale Restaurant is launching this.

We tried the Grilled Sambal Stingray which was crispy and coated well with sambal sauce that turned into a crisp around the stingray – sounds odd, but it’s actually really good!

The Grilled Mini Crawfish with homemade spices was full of flavour, though the texture could be softer. It was also the highlight of the buffet that we would keep going back for!

The Satay Skewers which consisted of beef, chicken and mutton tasted sweet with a tangy, charred flavour! The peanut sauce was also thick and fragrant.

Other grilled dishes include Grilled Prawns, Sotong and Ayam Panggang.

Another one of our favourites was the Har Cheong Gai Chicken Wings! Crispy and bursting with flavour – it’s a hit among us. How could we resist the crunch of it!

The Oven-Baked Seabass in sambal chilli was also delicious – if you could get past the gruesome stare of the fish! The fish meat was tender and the skin was slightly crisp, and both complemented the sambal well.

The Wok-Fried Salted Egg Yolk Prawns were sinfully tasty! If someone had peeled them for us, we’d have eaten 20 prawns in one sitting.

Next up is the DIY Asian Bao-Wich! You could pair the steaming hot bun with three different kinds of meat – Nyonya Chicken, Braised Five Spice Pork Belly, and Black Pepper Beef! Sounds so good.

After munching down the rojak and a few local mains, we headed for our usual seafood fix! The Seafood on Ice and the Sushi were “international” spun-off from the local delights. There are salmon, maguro, tamago and ebi sushi, as well as sweet poached prawns, manila clams and scampi.

If you’re craving for bread rolls, they have the bread corner just next to the seafood on ice! You can grab some pieces to dip into the curry or eat with the Paper Bag Oven-Baked Laksa Chicken.

Stuffed, we waddled to the dessert corner.

We especially loved the dessert served here. The pastry chefs have taken our favourite ingredients and did whimsical spins on them! For instance, the durian dessert was transformed into a Durian Creme Brulee!

True to any durian lover’s tastebuds, you could actually taste genuine durian puree! After torched, you get a naturally sweet and delicious durian puree dessert under a thin canopy of caramelised durian!

The Assorted Nyonya Kueh also won our hearts, especially the mini-sized Angku Kueh which looked really adorable! The Pandan Chiffon Marshmallow Sandwich was also a winner with us because it was done up so ingeniously! Pandan chiffon + soft melted marshmallows? Perfect!

There was chocolate fondue, DIY Chendol station and assorted tropicana cut fruits too!

Overall, for $38++, we reckon it’s a pretty sweet deal! Love local food of all kinds? Then head here to indulge in unlimited local delights – besides, you know how Makansutra can be kinda pricey…

 

Rasa Sayang BBQ Buffet

Date: 1 June – 26 August 2018

Dinner: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

 

Price: $38++ (Adult) / $19++ (Child 6 – 12 years)

$68++ (incl. free flow wines & beers)

Children under 6 dines free

 

Fancy a stay at Mercure Singapore Bugis? You might want to check out the breath-taking executive loft too!

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