Mediterranean

No really big news or events happened during March 2007, just lots of little big events. Here's one.

March was a month of birthdays for me. Some of my friends and also my dad. We went to Sheraton Hotel for dinner buffet. It was and probably forever will be a very expensive buffet but pop deserves every bit of it. Every few months or so, Sheraton's brasserie (which still sounds like brassiere to me) will change their buffet theme and during the time we went, it was Mediterranean! I have been waiting for it to come along since the last few years, which were mostly local or Asian themes. It was as close as I could get to a purely Italian one.

As the theme goes, there were many western & middle-eastern dishes such as fluffy breads, lasagna, pasta, salmon, lamb chops, cheese mushroom, mixed vegetables, a whole BBQ set in the open air outside, oysters, prawns, beef/chicken/lamb briyani, satay, and a lot more unnamable appetisers and dishes. The pasta was truly the highlight. It was custom-made, meaning it was totally up to my spoilt choice to select the various pastas, ingredients and sauce all lined up in front of the cooking counter. After pointing my gleeful fingers at which pasta to mix with what ingredients to go with which sauce, the chef would whip up the order right in front of me, Teppanyaki style. My sis and I asked to add extra extra cheese on the pasta...but ultimately it still wasn't enough for us so we took matters into our own hands & added more of the grated cheese ourselves, much to the chef's amusement. Hahaha

They had a variety of deserts too such as cakes, pudding, kuih-muih, soft bread, cookies, ice kacang, teh tarik, and a few choices of ice cream. Tasty as they were, they were also too sweet for comfort. The other only downside to the buffet was that the lasagna turned out to be a weird sour-tasting vegetarian lasagna. What a tragedy! Haha... All in all, we had a good time there dining, sipping coffee/tea, chatting and enjoying the atmosphere. My sis and I shared the bill as a birthday gift for pops. It was well worth it. Hopefully they will have an Italian theme someday.