The Dining Room at Sheraton Towers boasts high ceilings and a grand view of cascading waterfalls and landscaped tropical gardens. We ended up here by chance and went for their high tea (noon to 4pm, Saturdays, S$28++ for adults, S$15++ for kids aged 6-12).
Mains (from top): seafood olive rice, samosa with mint and mango chutney, popiah, fish finger, yakitori, originally uploaded by Camemberu.
It's not a very wide spread and consists mainly of Asian fare. I'll just quickly run through the highlights. The mains are quite forgettable although the popiah was all right. Didn't get to try the carrot cake.
A chef at a live station will serve you Vietnamese rice rolls with roast duck and mango (basically cut it in half, drizzle chili sauce and put single chive on it). Nice cold appetiser, if you can get past the slightly dried out rice roll skin.
Assorted sandwiches (from top) - tomato and cucumber with ume shavings, prawn and otah, tuna with tobiko, smoked salmon and cress, egg-mayo with sesame, originally uploaded by Camemberu.
The finger sandwiches were surprisingly tasty. Slightly more innovative than the usual catered fare. I appreciated the use of interesting final touches like ume (Japanese preserved plum) shavings and Japanese pink fish floss (not shown).
Hubby loved the rojak. It's a DIY station, so you can customise your own ingredients - add more tart mango cubes or jambu ayer (rose apple) slices if you like. Thumbs up.
I enjoyed this. The hotel bills this as their "famous Sheraton Towers Laksa", although I never knew it was. Famous, that is.
Mini glutinous rice dumplings with braised chicken inside. Tasty but I think pork makes a better filling.
This is the most generous portion I have seen in terms of shark's fins in any dim sum. Visible little combs of it adorn the chawanmushi cups. Bargain lovers will be happy! However the texture of the steamed egg is the roughest I have ever come across and the flavour is not stellar either, despite lots of crab meat at the bottom.
Dessert lovers will rejoice that more than half the buffet is all about sweets. Pity I wasn't able to try all of them.
Ahh, they have the durian pengat here. Durian pulp mixed with gula melaka and cream to create a light mousse. This seems a fairly light version, not overly pungent, but you will still need a palate cleanser if you want to taste anything else afterwards.
I had a brief thought about the bitesize desserts. All that effort into creating that little morsel and it's gone in two seconds. How transient everything in life is!
Nice shotglass desserts - raspberry with ivory chocolate mousse; and champagne jelly with fruits.
There were many desserts I did not get to try, including this. Also missed - pulut hitam, chocolate fountain, waffles station, all the cakes, pies and tarts. Did have the bread and butter pudding with vanilla cream but it was just average.
Vietnamese rice paper roll with roasted duck and mango, second helping!, originally uploaded by Camemberu.
I couldn't help taking a second helping of this, even after the desserts. Love rice paper rolls!
We finished off with this refreshing jelly. Wish I had the tummy space and time to try all the other stuff, but Nadine was getting cranky, so we had to cut short our meal. Would I be back again? Hmm, I'm not sure. There are just so many other high teas to check out!
THE DINING ROOM
Level 1, Sheraton Towers
39 Scotts Road
Tel: 6737-6888
it looks good! how much is the high tea?
ReplyDeleteAh sorry, forgot to put the price in. It's S$28++ for adults, S$15 for kids (aged 6-12). Will include this in main text now.
ReplyDeletelooks not bad, but then the variety doesn't seems to be a lot?
ReplyDeleteLady-i: you're right, it's not a lot but still enough to eat for S$28. No sashimi or meat-heavy mains though.
ReplyDeletethis looks like such a lovely place to dine! I love rice paper rolls. Every time I try to make them at home, I get frustrated with the uber sticky rice paper!
ReplyDeletethis high tea avaiable on weekday?
ReplyDeleteAnon, I think it's Saturdays only (I checked my high tea list) but you can always call to verify.
ReplyDeletegonna try this next week!
ReplyDeletewas wondering if there's any dress code to take note of?
Hi dean, there's no stated dress code. I think smart casual should be fine.
ReplyDeleteWe saw this page and decided to have a try,
ReplyDeletebut the food was not good,
the sushi were probably the worst we ever had,
rice were hard.
We looked for the chawanmushi,
but was told that it was from the old menu
and no longer available.
Price is now 32.8++per person,
which we think it is not worth for this quality.