Last Friday (30th may) was my boyfriend's birthday.. After thinking of where to bring him for almost 1 month, I decided to buy a buffet dinner voucher from Groupon. It was an International buffet dinner at Hotel Istana,KL.
Hotel Istana is situated at the heart of KL. At first I was wondering how to bring him there as it suppose to be a surprise treat for him, but I ruin my surprise as he saw the voucher in my phone gallery..... Hmmmmmm... No more surprise.... I told him to act as if he is surprised when I bring him there on 30th and he agreed. hahhahaha.. We decided to use public transport as we r going there after work and we don't want to get caught in the jam. I googled the nearest ktm/monorail station and I found out that the nearest is Raja Chulan monorail Station. We parked our car at Tun Sambanthan and took the Monorail . It was raining and I was quite worried if we could walk to the Hotel (whether it will be a walking distance) and to my surprise the hotel is just 2 minutes walk from Raja Chulan Monorail... aaaahhhhhhh.....
...and this is how it looks like from the outside... :)
I was really excited... We was greeted by a sweet tall Malay lady as we enter the hotel. We straight walked to Taman Sari...
I went to hotel Istana before for a conference so I know how it would look like... But it was a lunch buffet and now its a dinner buffet.... as we enter we could see sooo many desserts... yummmyyy.... I just love desserts and cake.... and followed by a wide range of food... The waitress brought us to our table, and we r set to gooooooooooo.... Arul started with his first plate... hahaha... the variety was good for me... We were both satisfied and Arul event said that they should reduce the variety so that we can taste all ...
So this was how it looked like.....
and now the food....
My portion. I didn't take rice/paste for first round... took smoked and grilled duck..grilled duck tastes better...
and this is what Arul took....
We went to the BBQ booth outside. I choose chicken, prawn,sausages and Arul added squids... but we were not satisfied with the BBQ.. It seriously does't taste good....
Then back to our next round of food....I took Nasi Briyani and grilled chicken with rendang and some other sauce.. Arul took grilled lamb and some other food.. Being a briyani lover i realllyyyyy love the taste.. It was really good...
YUMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
The desserts.... choc dip.. Surprisingly Arul loved it soo much ..
We was really full by now. so we decided to take rest and start chit chatting... I really admire the group of aunties beside us.. They really can eat well.. Really suitable for a buffet... and definitely they enjoyed the food... I was a little greedy ... I wanted to eat more even though I'm FULLL... There was ais kacang which you can customize on your own... sad.. couldn't eat that as I was too full and Arul advised me to stop eating.. hahahah...
Last but not least, Ice cream.. I was unaware of it all this while until Arul told me there was Ice cream beside Ais kacang booth...I Immediately stood up and went to customize my own Ice cream... There were a lot of toppings... I took 3 scoops of ice cream with nuts,oreo and chocolate syrup... Managed to manipulate Arul to get his own too.. heheh...
Finally I'm done..I wish I had a big stomach.. haha.. I'm too full and started having stomach ache and nausea... Who can resist the food in a buffet rite? I couldn't even walk properly to the Monorail station but somehow I managed to...
In a nutshell, It was a good buffet indeed.. There were a lot of variety in the food.The BBQ could have been better... and i wish they have more desserts and a little bit more of Western food.
Overall it definitely worth the money... yummyy... Wish to go again in future... :) :) Even though I decided not to go for buffet when I had stomach ache that day.. hahaha....
Thanks Hotel Istana and thanks to Groupon... He really enjoyed the treat... :)
Hotel Istana is situated at the heart of KL. At first I was wondering how to bring him there as it suppose to be a surprise treat for him, but I ruin my surprise as he saw the voucher in my phone gallery..... Hmmmmmm... No more surprise.... I told him to act as if he is surprised when I bring him there on 30th and he agreed. hahhahaha.. We decided to use public transport as we r going there after work and we don't want to get caught in the jam. I googled the nearest ktm/monorail station and I found out that the nearest is Raja Chulan monorail Station. We parked our car at Tun Sambanthan and took the Monorail . It was raining and I was quite worried if we could walk to the Hotel (whether it will be a walking distance) and to my surprise the hotel is just 2 minutes walk from Raja Chulan Monorail... aaaahhhhhhh.....
...and this is how it looks like from the outside... :)
I was really excited... We was greeted by a sweet tall Malay lady as we enter the hotel. We straight walked to Taman Sari...
I went to hotel Istana before for a conference so I know how it would look like... But it was a lunch buffet and now its a dinner buffet.... as we enter we could see sooo many desserts... yummmyyy.... I just love desserts and cake.... and followed by a wide range of food... The waitress brought us to our table, and we r set to gooooooooooo.... Arul started with his first plate... hahaha... the variety was good for me... We were both satisfied and Arul event said that they should reduce the variety so that we can taste all ...
So this was how it looked like.....
and now the food....
My portion. I didn't take rice/paste for first round... took smoked and grilled duck..grilled duck tastes better...
and this is what Arul took....
The second round I took all deserts... cakes and jelly.. I was too excited to eat and forgot to snap any pic... :(
We went to the BBQ booth outside. I choose chicken, prawn,sausages and Arul added squids... but we were not satisfied with the BBQ.. It seriously does't taste good....
Then back to our next round of food....I took Nasi Briyani and grilled chicken with rendang and some other sauce.. Arul took grilled lamb and some other food.. Being a briyani lover i realllyyyyy love the taste.. It was really good...
YUMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
The desserts.... choc dip.. Surprisingly Arul loved it soo much ..
We was really full by now. so we decided to take rest and start chit chatting... I really admire the group of aunties beside us.. They really can eat well.. Really suitable for a buffet... and definitely they enjoyed the food... I was a little greedy ... I wanted to eat more even though I'm FULLL... There was ais kacang which you can customize on your own... sad.. couldn't eat that as I was too full and Arul advised me to stop eating.. hahahah...
Last but not least, Ice cream.. I was unaware of it all this while until Arul told me there was Ice cream beside Ais kacang booth...I Immediately stood up and went to customize my own Ice cream... There were a lot of toppings... I took 3 scoops of ice cream with nuts,oreo and chocolate syrup... Managed to manipulate Arul to get his own too.. heheh...
Finally I'm done..I wish I had a big stomach.. haha.. I'm too full and started having stomach ache and nausea... Who can resist the food in a buffet rite? I couldn't even walk properly to the Monorail station but somehow I managed to...
In a nutshell, It was a good buffet indeed.. There were a lot of variety in the food.The BBQ could have been better... and i wish they have more desserts and a little bit more of Western food.
Overall it definitely worth the money... yummyy... Wish to go again in future... :) :) Even though I decided not to go for buffet when I had stomach ache that day.. hahaha....
Thanks Hotel Istana and thanks to Groupon... He really enjoyed the treat... :)
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