New Restaurant: edge Dinner Buffet Part II

Continuing off from where I stopped previously in part I, here's the next part of my post!

Dim Sum Selection

They have quite a wide variety! Basically what they have is what is shown in the pictures and the big bamboo baskets to the right in the 1st pic is where your hot dimsum comes out from!

Siew Mai, Custard Bun (liu sha bao), Lotus Bun (lian rong pau), Steamed Pork Ribs with Fermented Beans, Har Gow (prawn dumpling), Veggie Dumpling

Har Gow - this was not bad, succulent prawns, skin wasnt too chewy/hard either

Custard Bun - do note that this one DOES NOT flow haha. There are some that doesnt flow and some that do, and its meant to be like that. So if you're the type that likes the flow, this is not for you! Unless they've changed it!

Ingredients for Noodle Bar

Noodle Bar

They have a VERY wide and extensive noodle bar selection imo!

Types of noodles:

Hor fun

Bee Tai Mak (!!)

Yellow Noodles

Fine Vermicelli

Mee Sua (!!)

Laksa Noodles

Wanton Egg Noodles

Types of Broth:

Chicken broth

Curried-Spiced Aromatic Coconut Gravy (aka what you have for laksa!)

Penang Spicy Hokkien Prawn Broth (assuming for prawn mee)

They have many types of chili available as well: green chili, chili padi, sambal etc.

Laksa

My mom asked for very little, hence the small portion!

Roast Delights

Peking Roasted Duck, Crisp Roast Chicken, Roasted Pork

We all gave this a miss somehow haha idk why! Do try and lemme know your comments!

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On to the dessert buffet spread now!!! It gets its own corner at the far end of the restaurant, my idea of heaven :)

1/3 of the spread!!! More details below

Milk Chocolate Fondue (not pictured) | White Chocolate Fondue 

Strawberries | Marshmallows | Dried Apricots

More detailed view of the traditional dessert spread!

Pandan Chiffon Cake | Almond Jelly & Longan | Red Bean Fried Mochi | Peanut Fried Mochi

Prune Kueh Lapis | Assorted Ang Ku Kueh | 

Kueh Bingka | Seri Kaya | Kueh Kosewee

Childhood snacks

Fish biscuit | Biscuit w Pineapple Jam Filling

Childhood Snacks

Sugar Gems | Roll Biscuit

Was so excited when I saw these snacks at the buffet!!! Have never ever seen them featured and I think its a really nice touch :)

Small platings of desserts! Look at the top row okay! Bottom row is probably for purchase only haha

What you have in the top row:

Chili Chocolate Pudding

Matcha pudding with Adzuki Beans

Mango Pudding

Creme Brulee

Forgot what else there was! But about 2 more small desserts there

Chocolate Cake

This wasnt too sweet, quite an average chocolate cake I'd say though it sure looks pretty!

Mango Pavlova

Plum Tart

This was good!!!! Really liked this. Nice tart crust too. Can rival Basilico's (Basilico's wins it by a little though haha)

Background - butter cake with coconut frosting

Foreground - carrot cake

Love how christmas-y this looks!

Cheesecake

Ice Cream!!!!

Mango, Maple walnut, Strawberry, Chocolate, Lime & Lemon Sorbet, and forgot whats the last one!

Assorted Toppings for Ice Cream

Bread & Butter Pudding

Waffle Station!

Freshly Made Waffle

Berry coulis | Vanilla Sauce | Maple Syrup

Crepe Station (Right beside it)

Freshly Made Crepe

With more sauces there to choose from!

Freshly Made Waffle with Ice Cream

The chef there was so nice :) He first asked if I wanted any syrup and I said yes, maple. Then he asked if I wanted ice cream! So I got rum raisin and mango!

Do note that the 2 slices of waffle shown here is 1 order of waffles! 

Waffle - only very slightly crispy, thin batter, dont really like it

Maple Walnut Ice Cream - this was gooooood! Love the crunchy walnut bits and the slightly sweet maple syrup taste in the background, yum :)

Mango - this was quite good too

Plum Tart - as I've mentioned is good

Chocolate Cake - as I've mentioned too

Carrot Cake - not much spice taste, cant really tell its carrot cake! Slightly sweet too

Chocolate Truffle!

More Chocolate Truffles!

Cookies!!

Even more variety of chocolate truffle!

Green Tea Chocolate

Really loved this! Took more servings of this :) Its texture is in between a chocolate truffle and a mochi?? Its kinda soft actually! Nice milky green tea taste!!

Chili Chocolate Pudding | Mango Pudding | Red Bean Matcha Pudding

Chili Chocolate is okay, slightly spicy only, dont expect lava cake flow haha

Mango pudding is not bad, passable

Red Bean Matcha was bad haha

Choc Truffle w Alcohol!

Not sure which alcohol but it was gooooooood :) Their truffles are good hehe

Hazelnut Choc Truffle

This is like ferrero rocher! Super good :) Look at that hazelnut!

Freshly made Crepe w Bananas and Maple Walnut Ice Cream

Now this was GOOOOOOD. The crepe was SO crispy and so yummy!! Just thin enough but thick enough to wrap around my banana and ice cream!! Its so big cos there's a whole chopped up banana inside there! Do note that you can ask for bananas to be added to your crepe ok! And the ice cream hehe, so nice till I had to have another scoop :) Finished this on my own and everyone was so shocked cos I ate this rightttt at the end when we were all super full. Lucky I went to give this a try and not give up aft the unassuming waffle!

General comments about the buffet

• VERY value for money! I feel that at $55++ its super duper value for money for the spread + quality that you get!!!! Really feel like its super worthwhile!
• Do not like it that there are no labels
• Service can be a bit slow sometimes - never refill water/clear plates
• Service v. friendly though and courteous, willing to help

Note: there is NO complimentary parking unless you are a Pan Pacific Privileged member and has spent >$150 at the outlet! (Feel that this is kinda absurd, almost all of the oth hotel restaurants I know provide you w complimentary parking!)

OK just a disclaimer in case anyone suspects anything, this is NOT an invited food tasting nor am I working for the restaurant/hotel group!!! I am still a student and I paid for my own food and went there on my own accord!

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Breakfast (6:00am to 11:00am)
Adult - $48++, Child - $32++

Lunch (12:00 noon to 2:30pm)
Adult - $48++, Child - $32++

Dinner (6:30pm to 10:30pm)

Adult - $55++, Child - $39++

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Pan Pacific Hotel (the one near Marina Square!)

New: Au Chocolat at MBS

Au Chocolat is the first made-in-Singapore French-inspired concept store with a bistro dining area and a retail confeserie with a wide selection of chocolate and candy. (this is taken off their website). It occupies a rather large area of level 1 of The Shoppes with 2 main parts, a bistro serving a huge variety of food (Crepes, pasta, all day brekkie like french toasts, pancakes, eggs, Western mains, sides like sweet potato fries, truffle fries etc and many more!) and the other is the retail section selling cakes, pastries, bon bons, truffles (the choc ones), gelato, merchandise and such. 

The decor is certainly very whimsical and French-like and not to mention rustic, it seems like vintage is THE style right now of eateries. The staff here all wear straw hats and red aprons that blend in with the old feel of the place. Technically there's supposed to be like 'characters' and you follow them on their journey in the shop (frm what I read before they opened) but I barely saw any characters for me to follow or any story haha.

NOTE THIS: if you want to buy cakes/pastries or anything from the retail section to eat in the bistro section you've to pay $2/piece to eat there! SHOCKING OR WHAT??? Think they shld waive this $2 if ppl are alr eating at the bistro or sth. Argh.

Retail area (to the left sells gelato but today there were like only 3 flavours in the counter -.-)

Interior of the bistro area!

Train that goes round the bistro and they have another one at the bistro! This successfully attracts many kids :)

The napkin is thick but rough, not good for wiping mouth haha

Parma Ham Crepe

Quality aged prosciutto de parma, sweet rock melon & fine Swiss gruyere cheese

$18

Served with salad topped with Au Chocolat's unique chocolate balsamic vinaigrette

The crepe was not hot at all nor was it warm when it was served, I dont know why. And its so thin that its kinda non-existent. Like additional carbs and calories that you cannot taste and feel cos its so thin!! The rock melon was really sweet and it also came w walnuts and cranberries which added to the taste and texture of this crepe making it quite wonderful to eat in one big mouthful! I like that they use diff types of cherry tomatoes and there are rocket leaves/arugula on it as well so it makes a good mix of tastes when you eat everything together! But nothing spectacular though. The sauce, is a little sweet and savory but cant really taste it unless you eat the sauce alone. Ok if you're up to indulge (money-wise). The parma ham was great and went well w everything esp the melon and the walnuts! 3.4/5

Pssst I saw a plate of sweet crepe I think was the orange & tangerine or sth but it looked super not value for money, like crepe + some fruits on top and sauce then its $16??!

Stuffed French Toast

Two slices of brioche bread filled with plump berries & indulgent mascarpone cheese coated with cornflakes for that ultimate crunch

$18

This marries Wild Honey's french toast and Dean & Deluca's! Wild Honey's cos its stuffed w sth + mascarpone (WH's is peach I think and its berries here) then D&D's idea of coating it w cornflakes! To me, its not as fluffy and thick as I'd like it, quite a thin piece unlike WH's bread and the cheese's q watery idk why! Certainly a nice crunch from the cornflakes. Quite nice still though as a whole! The boy said it got a bit boring towards the end. 3.2/5

Tarte Au Chocolat

Decadent tart with a dark chocolate filling, praline cream & rum toffee bananas, served with vanilla gelato

$15

We were kinda like woahhh when the tart came cos honestly its the biggest tart I've eaten in my life! I think... Ok anyway this is REALLY decadent and delicious :) I could finish this on my own but if you're not a crazed dessert fan/chocoholic like me, then I suggest sharing this cos it can get a little jia lat or too bitter or too sweet towards the end cos it IS huge! The ganache is thick smooth and slightly bitter which is good but somehow towards the end, it gets kinda sick. The tart shell is not bad, breaks off nicely (tho a little hard at first) and is crumbly, not too thick either. Very yummy in fact if you share it w ppl!! The cream doesnt really add much to it when eaten tgt w the tart, I actually like it more when eaten alone!

The bananas just taste like normal bananas but much softer. The gelato is SO impt here 'cos it breaks the monotony of the hugeass tart and the gelato is good so ya towards the end was: tart > gelato > tart > gelato combi haha. Quality gelato too with lots of vanilla specks :)

At least this place gives portions that matches the price unlike many many oth places that charge exorbitant prices for dessert but give minuscule portions!  4.2/5

Rustic French Apple Pie

Flaky chocolate puff pastry crust filled with cinnamon-scented apples, topped with buttery crumble, served with vanilla gelato & salted caramel sauce

You can barely see the pie crust here hahaha and it certainly chocolate puff pastry!!! Totally normal, no chocolate. Its like not a pie but just a layer of pastry at the bottom and some resemblance of a pie at the end towards the left but that's abt it! The rest is the FILLING! Large chunks of well-cooked apples stewed w cinnamon, butter and all things sinful and yummy haha. The crumble is quite sparse but the apples were good! Quite hard to cut up the puff pastry below. The pie got jia lat towards the end too. So sharing is very much encouraged!! 4/5

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Just some things that I saw: the fries are served like how Swensens served theirs and the portion's roughly the same! And the chocolate cake in the desserts page is HUGE, even bigger than PS Cafe's black out cake and all oth choc cake slices I've seen haha. And 2 diff ppl ordered today and they both couldnt finish towards the end! Suggest sharing w more than 1 person.

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Now on to what the retail section sells!

Some sweets - big macarons, bars

Marron choc tart if I'm not wrong

Cupcakes

These sliced cakes are $8 each! They also sell whole cakes! There's matcha, choc w many diff combis and diff flavours.

Black Sesame Cheese cake $8/slice

And they have a section on cheesecakes! NY Style, white choc raspberry, matcha w oreo base, mango ginger (interesting), Dutch apple etc!

Gummies

Jellybeans

Chocolate truffles

Service was not bad at the bistro, though can be friendlier and more attentive. Portions for desserts definitely very big, recommended for sharing. Will not be in a hurry to go back due to prices!! But prices are kinda understandable cos of their obviously-high-rental! 

They're located 2 floors above the ice skating ring!

Au Chocolat

01-03 The Shoppes MBS

Website (their menu is there too, click bistro)