I consider myself a pretty greedy person when it comes to food, so me hearing about any kind of buffet is like a kid hearing about Disneyland. I've been waiting for an all can eat yum cha for some time, so when Thoa mentioned Oriental yum cha was doing this, I didn't hesitate, not even for a second.
We were seated and offered tea but food was yet to come around as they were still setting up, apparently twenty minutes after opening was still too early to arrive. We must of sat around for about 15 mins before trolleys came around so it really took time out of our 1hr seating time which they were very adamant about keeping. They however didn't seem to mind how many items you have on table at once though, so we made up for some lost time on the first trolley that came by.
Along with ordering classic favourites, we decided to try a few new things since it wasnt costing us any extra. Beef balls were a new discovery...not the good kind of discovery though. I have nothing to compare it to so i'm not sure what a good one is suppose to taste like, but what I can say is, as a dish in general, it was quite unpleasant to eat. Texture was gelatinous and slimey and tasted and looked like raw mince despite being cooked. I'm not sure i'm game enough to try that one again at a different place unless someone can tell me that I just had some dud ones.
Xiao long baos were okay. The broth along with pastry was average in flavour but we found the presentation to be annoying. We had a few mishaps with the pastry sticking to the silicon and no matter how careful we would be, it got a little bit messy.
The chicken feet was probably the stand out from this visit although not quite on the same standard as other places, but it was full of flavour and we both enjoyed it.We ordered a few other dishes too that we didn't take photos. Har Gow would be one of my favourite dumplings and i recall the pastry being super thick and dry and the fillings are minimal prawn. sui mais were pretty tough and dry and lack the usual flavours. We finished with some egg tarts and mango pudding; the former lacking flakiness in the pastry and the latter being overly sweet and tasting superficial.
We stopped ordering at this point and were just finishing off dessert and tea, but we were gently reminded about 3 times by different wait staff that our time was up. There were a number of tables still empty with no new customers coming in, so it seemed a little unnecessary. I think the last girl noticed how uncomfortable she made us so she top up our tea before leaving, but nonetheless we didn't want to overstay our welcome so we scoffed down the rest of our egg tarts and got up to pay.
It set us 19.90 each and I was satisfied enough that I had every intention of coming back but since the, I've been to a few other yum cha since (old favourites and new ones), and really, you can eat all the yum cha you ca handle and it costs you a little over $20 anyway. not to mention that the food quality is better and you can sit for as long as you please.
Food: 5/10
Service: 4/10
atmosphere: 5/10
Value: 6/10
Overall 5
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