This CNY has been such a whirlwind affair, we've hardly begun to celebrate before it's over. To add to the excitement, Lesley-Anne came down with an unfortunate bout of food poisoning on CNY eve (which led to a 2am visit to a 24-hour doc for an anti-vomiting jab). Her new clothes and shoes remained untouched while she spent the two days of CNY in bed, eating porridge and ham sandwiches.
Incidentally, Lesley-Anne's Chinese zodiac fortune for this year read "The Water Dragon will be unfriendly to you." You don't say.
Anyway, she's feeling much better now and she had a chance to catch up on the feasting when my sister treated us to lunch at Shangri-la's celebrated buffet, The Line.We're not frequent patrons of buffets as we don't have insatiable appetites, but it was a real treat. The Line is known for its spectacular spread - there's a Chinese, Indian, Western, Italian and Japanese selection, on top of the cold appetisers and of course, the impressive array of desserts.
We didn't sample all the stations. We simply zoomed in on our favourites, like the cold seafood. Crab claws, succulent prawns, raw oysters, mussels.
And sashimi, of course! As much salmon belly as you can eat.
The food was very fresh. We had too many helpings to count but the crowning glory has to be the dessert. This is one seriously awesome spread - makes you wish you were a cow just so you can have four stomachs!
Andre tackling the chocolate fountain.
Before conquering the ice-cream station. He had mango sorbet and raspberry sorbet with chocolate sprinkles, rainbow sprinkles, chocolate chips and gummy worms. I call it the hyperactive drive concoction.
Topping it all up with a foamy cup of cappuccino.
Kopi tarik and teh tarik for husband and wife.
Eating at the Shang is really very pleasant. It's surrounded by green and as we discovered, even the squirrels have acquired a taste for fine dining. We actually saw a couple run up and down the tables outside, foraging for leftovers.
Just a by the way but there's a chocolate carving of two dragons in the Shang lobby which I thought was mighty impressive.
Me and my fabulous sister!
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4 comments:
Happy CNY to you and your family, Mon! Hope it's still not too late. L-A looks very good, hope she has recuperated from the food poisoning.
Chris
Happy CNY to you too, Chris! And yes, L-A is back up and enjoying her meals!
Hi Monica,
Thanks for the write-up. I'm not a buffet person but a couple of weeks ago, I had a sudden craving for a variety of food and The Line pops up in my head. I love the oysters especially - had 12 in total and they were not enough - both for me and The Line! My kid said that I ate them all up so that they didn't have enough to serve.
Patricia: Lol, you ate up the oysters at The Line? That's hilarious! But for The Line to run out of oysters, that's inexcusable lah. They should know it's the oyster lovers who flock there!
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