Crab buffet!

Hi guys!

So sorry for the missing post last week! I was soooo busy with school:( but anyway, here's one for this week.

Apart from sharing my adventures, food places are second on the list of shares. So for a start, I'm gonna do a brief post on the restaurant that I just visited - Brizo.

I was there with my relatives for a crab buffet dinner, so basically you could see lots of crabs cooked in different styles - butter, pepper, chilli, salted egg, steamed, laksa, chilled, soft shelled... I'd tried all of them, except pepper, and you can find my reviews below:

Butter - the sauce was quite nice on its own (since I'm a butter lover) but it didn't really blend with the crabs (not harmonious). Butter does not have a very strong taste to start with as well, so it's something like pouring creamy butter sauce over a crab, that's all.

Chilli - chilli crabs are rather common in Singapore, so it's quite difficult for a specific restaurant's to stand out since they all kinda taste the same. However, the sauce here was a little thicker, compared to the watery (but not diluted) sauces outside. The chilli crab here is also a little more spicy than those I have tried outside but it should be a piece of cake for chilli lovers. I'm not fond of chilli; my tolerance level for spiciness is about... that of McWings? If that helps with gauging the level of spiciness. Haha.

*Salted egg - although the salted egg crabs looked dry both on the inside and the outside, they turned out to be rather juicy and chewy! The salted egg has really gone into the meat of the crabs, so the taste doesn't just stay on the outside like the butter crabs. I don't think it was due to the freshness of the crabs that the meat stick to the shell; I think it's because the crabs had already cooled off and the salted egg sauce dried up, making it stiff and all.

*Steamed - ranked as number one on other sites. it was served separately from all other help-yourself crabs; you have to tell the chef there that you want one. The best thing about it is the awesome broth that the crab was soaked in! But other than that, it's just a normal crab and it wasn't really fresh when we ate that time.

Laksa - it was served with a bowl of laksa, with noodles and all. Nothing special actually.

*Chilled - the chilled Alaska crab legs were huge!!! And it's very juicy (and salty). If you open it the right way (by cutting along the leg and open it like a book), you can take the meat out as one entire piece and just chew on it. The first few were heavenly but too much of it will make you sick because of the saltiness.

The starred ones are my recommendations, must-try!!! There are plastic gloves and napkins to shield yourself from the sauce-splashing.

Yupp, other than crabs, there are many others too, ranging from cooked food (chicken, vege...) to sushi to chicken soup (quite nice) to desserts. I wouldn't talk about them since they aren't much of a highlight, except for the desserts!

The first thing that caught my eye was CHOCOLATE FONDUE!!! *screams* well, it's always a weak spot of mine.

Together with that, there are fruits and a large variety of ice cream! Among all ice cream, there's one that is worth mentioning and that's Magnolia's passionfruit sherbet. Don't judge because it's Magnolia; it's very creamy, smooth and not too sweet. It feels chewy at the start but melts in your mouth, literally!!! It went out of stock before I could even get one myself! If you don't believe me, go try one yourself (not at Brizo, just go to NTUC and get one @$1.20. Haha!)

So, if you're interested and very fond of crabs, do go try Brizo. It's at Park Hotel, level 1. Take AYE and exit Clemenceau, and it's on your left. Prepare about $80 per pax but I would say, wait for some deals or go ask for staff discounts from relatives and friends.

Lots Of Love (LOL),
Jensylee