X'mas Company Buffet 2010

We recently had a X'mas Company Buffet just the day before. Initially I thought it was rather underwhelming. As we used to have seafood buffet as an end of the year buffet rather than the buffet come to us in the facility. Oysters, sashimis, sri-lankan crabs cooked in a variety of styles and amongst others. The buffet at the facility was indeed a little underwhelming but there was a couple of surprises.

The following was served.

1. Tempura Prawns
This was actually just breaded Japanese prawns since Tempura powder was not used.

2. You Tiao
I didn't have this but I suppose its the elaborately done type you see in Chinese restaurants with fillings.

3. Fried Breaded Scallop
Its actually not scallop but rather surumi. You know.. the types you see in super markets prepared and all you need to do is to deep try them.

4. Chicken Honey Baked Ham
For our Muslim friends who can't take pork. This was ok, I should have taken more since quite a lot was left.

5. Christmas Chocolate Log Cake
Cakes are too rich and creamy for me. Not my kind of thing. Unless someone tells me it is made of chocolate fudge ice-cream... then I'm there in an instant.

6. Curry Chicken
Very typical of Singaporean Buffets. But this curry was actually quite nice.

7. Fried Bee-hoon.
You always see this in almost every buffet... theres not much to talk about here.

8. Breaded Fish cooked in Special Sauce
Its ok but I prefer my fish REALLY fresh. Fried & breaded is no way to taste the freshness of the fish.

9. Roast Chicken - (Cooked in X'mas Turkey Style)
This to me. Is the real highlight of the buffet. The meat was soft & succulent with a smoked aroma. I can't quite identify what herbs or spices it was but if you have eaten smoked duck or salmon then the aroma it has is quite close. To my surprise this was the dish with the most leftovers. My guess is that most of my colleagues were too lazy to cut meat off the bird.

Oh well, one man's loss is another's gain as they say. All in all, I didn't get to eat my favorite sashimi at a seafood buffet like I used to. But I pleasantly surprised with the buffet, it was definitely much better than most of the buffet I have eaten at other places.

I lucked out in a way. My boss was suddenly quite nice to me & instructed the HR to leave the leftovers of the X'mas buffet to me. She even provided the tupperware to store them! Must have been the festive seasons at work here. I couldn't packed both chickens in the boxes so I ended up with one chicken and my boss with the other.