In Lieu of Easter Sunday...

Today I have a day off
In lieu of Easter Sunday, my office decided to give the employees a day off... so the total (since the Good Friday) is FOUR days off.... hooray!!!

So today I went to Orchard, enjoying and pampering myself...
I planned to buy something (a turtle neck baby doll from Dorothy Perkins) but at the end I cannot find it... maybe it's sold out already.
In the late afternoon I went to Carousel in Royal Plaza on Scotts for Buffet High Tea. The cost is S$27.4 nett per person (HSBC card holder gets 15% discount!!!). At first I didn't really believe that the price is soooo affordable, because the foods are too many for only a High Tea... it's almost like a Buffet Breakfast or Lunch...

For the heavy eaters... nasi goreng, noodles, cold soba, Thai Pandan Chicken (superb!!!), curry, Singapore Laksa, and Glutinus Chicken Rice can be the alternatives.

For the light eaters, or for anyone who is tired of shopping and walking,... there are lots of steamed and fried Dim Sum (Halal), varieties of Sushi and Sashimi, mouth watering salads (poached salmon salads, cold cuttlefish, pasta and beef bacon salad, fruit cocktail and potato salad), canapes!!!, sandwiches... and also popiah, chicken pie, roti prata...

For soups and deserts... Carousel has pumpkin and Chinese chicken soup, two choices of porridge, local deserts, tarts, mousses, bread pudding, and chocolate fountain (with grapes, pineapples and plums).

In overall, this restaurant is worth to try... everything was excellent here. The food, the service, the ambience, the price... but nothing is competely perfect, isn't it? In my opinion, the one thing I feel unsatisfied about Carousel is only the timing allowed for this Buffet High Tea. Carousel opens 24 hours per day, Buffet Lunch finishes at 2.30pm and High Tea starts at exactly 3.30pm and ends at 5.30pm, while the Dinner will be served at 7pm. Maybe it's because of the Dinner time so the staffs have to prepare 1,5 hours before it, but 2hours (3.30 to 5.30pm) for dining-in in such a convenient and delicious Buffet restaurant is not enough... okay, for me, it's not enough... but yes, usually High Tea is only around 2 or 2,5 hours, so no hope can be extended further... unless the staffs can prepare it faster (and in Carousel, even before 5.30pm, the staffs already started their preparation for the dinner :< ).