I don't know if it is the extremely high glucose-in-blood-stream level talking or it's just me, but it was AWESOME. Maybe we were a bit too excited, ate so much that I felt really sick afterwards and had to keep quiet cause talking hurt. Too.. bloated...
There's way too much food to remember everything. I promise that had to be the most expensive meal that I've paid for this year (not from the Parents). It is $39.80++ for weekend dinners, so the whole thing worked out to be around $47 per person. Ouch.
I'll let the pictures do the talking:
the buffet tables
They serve EVERYTHING Japanese! Kaminabe (paper steamboat), kushiyaki (Japanese satay), sashimi, seafood, sushi, tempura, chawan-munshi, different types of soup, sweet cold prawns, their signature dish of snow crabs (free flow and only available at dinner) and many, many more! You'll simply be overwhelmed with choices there and there's too much to even try and stomach one of each item available!
sweet, sweet, sweet.
uh. salty, salty, salty.
The Guide on How to Enjoy a Sumptuous Meal. Not very useful, if you ask me. What may be more realistic may be: Eat. Just eat.
The softest mochi I have ever eaten! Absolutely delightful, it may have been the best thing from the desert section! Now I know what it means by "melt-in-your-mouth" mochi. They have it in two flavours too - green tea and peanut. I can't decide which is better. My suggestion? Eat them both, and as many as you can.
And Guess what this contained! -
Tea, anyone? But no! It actually contained soup!
A very rich stock to boot. When you open the teapot, you'll find ingredients like mushrooms and prawns inside! What you're supposed to do is pour the soup out from the teapot into a bowl and then drink. Trust the Japanese to think of such cool concepts.
The paper steamboat! For the unacquainted, the paper steamboat is a Japanese dish that is, well, a steamboat like any other, just that it comes in a paper bowl that's made of special waxed paper that doesn't get burnt by the fire beneath. Kuishinbo is really generous with the food they provide, and the steamboat was really good! There's fish, prawns, mussels and everything. The best part of it though, has to be the soup stock. Nice, strong, flavourful, and a tinge of seafood sweetness. Mmmm! (They look so pretty too!)
And for the highlight of Kuishinbo...
The LOBSTER. Every 45 mins or so, you'll realise that the normal Japanese music stops playing, only to be replaced by the music that has to be Kuishinbo's strongest trademark " Dong dong dong, 1,2,3, we are Kuishinbo." It's such an annoying tune, such a stupid song, such a retarded ad, and it achieved what any advertising gimmick is supposed to - stick in peoples' minds. Ah. I'd call it a sucessful advertisement. Everyone I know remembers the song. The best part is, in the TV ad, the song also adds "Suntec City Level3" in that annoying tune, so no one can forget where it is! How wonderful does it get!
Okay, back to the point. Once that tune starts playing, you'll see HORDES of people running to form a queue somewhere along the buffet spread, near the paper steamboats. What for? Lobsters. There's only 40 pieces of them at every round, and one person is only allowed to take one. If you miss it, you'll just have to wait for the next round. There's two types of lobsters, and they alternate the type at the rounds. One is the cheese covered lobster, and the other is a soy-and-thai-chilli one. Heck, both are good.
Standard of food wise, it's not bad. It's definitely better than what you'll get at Sakae Sushi or Seoul Garden or anything. Not top notch, I believe you'll still have to go to proper Japanese restaurants to get the best quality food - no buffet can ever have the highest quality of food, considering the large amounts of food they have to prepare and leave out in the open. For buffet food though, it's of considerably good quailty. Great, friendly, warm ambience. You can stay there and eat for hours (dinner is on from 5.30 to 10) and catch up with friends. While we were there a birthday song played multiple times too - they will willingly read out birthday dedications at your request!
One thing we realised though is that the majority of the staff doesn't understand English, so it's really tough asking for help if you need anything in particular. To make your money worth it, you'll really really want to eat everything, so by the end of it you'll have gained a kg or two and vow not to have breakfast (and possibly lunch too) the next day. It'll also stop any cravings for Jap food for a long time I believe.
Oh and some good advice to heed: skip all rice/carbs at any buffet, they fill you up too fast, so you won't be able to eat the nice and expensive things. Ha. Stupid trick by restaurants.
Burp. I think I shall go and digest the food. By watching tv, yes.
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