Dad's birthday celebration at Rose Veranda

Today, we celebrated my dad's birthday at the Rose Veranda in Shangri-la Hotel. Since it is a weekday, we get to enjoy the high tea buffet from 11.30am to 6pm! I made the reservation online https://www.shangri-la.com/singapore/shangrila/dining/bars-lounges/rose-veranda/book-a-table/ to enjoy the 15% discount off total bill. I understand that some credit cards do provide such discount too but I would still recommend for all to reserve as it is usually full house no matter what day of the week it is.

 

If you are celebrating your birthday or someone else's, indicate it during the reservation and they will provide a complimentary mini chocolate truffle cake which tasted awesome!

 

 

 

 

Welcome tea: tasted really good

 

They have an extensive list of TWG tea for you to select, I think we took a good 10 minutes trying to select our teas haha, and finally, we made our choices:

• Vanilla Bourbon Tea
• Lemon Bush Tea
• Creme Caramel Tea
• Life and Beauty

All tasted really good :) It is refillable too but you can select coffee instead and if I'm not wrong, it should be refillable.

 



Cooked food section

The laksa gravy was so lemak! Mmmm delish!

Laksa station

My favourite cheese and sashimi sections! Since the chiller for the sushi and sashimi was too cold, the rice was slightly too hard and dry for me. But the fresh sashimi makes up for it, ate more than 20 slices *satisfying*

And I loveeee my blue cheese! Makes me so happy to see it!

 

 

Accidentally poured too much soy sauce :s

The service staff also went around serving some specials: the soup of the day and the dessert at the bottom, I think it's raspberry sorbet with yuzu jelly.

DESSERT CORNER! They have an assorted array of desserts- fondue, ice creams, macaroons, nonya kuehs, bread pudding, puffs, chocolate and cheese cakes, and many more!

 

Tiramisu, yam and coconut ice cream

The Rose Veranda @ Shangri-la Hotel
22 Orange Grove Road

Mezzanine Level, Tower Wing

Singapore 258350

 

Usual Price: S$45++ (adult), S$23 (children) 

 

Verdict: Given that it was a high tea buffet, I think they deserve 4stars for their range especially the desserts. Despite reading some of the negative reviews, I personally feel that their quality wasn't too bad and on average the food still tasted great. Service staff were polite and pretty prompt given that it was full house that day. In addition, the price was really worth it, especially when we were there from 12.30 to 5.30pm and we were given a complimentary birthday cake :)

 

PetiteFreckles ♥

Korea Day 6: Seoul

Woke up late today so we quickly wash up and head for lunch at Bonjuk 본죽, a popular korean porridge franchise, located near Bukchon hanok village (nearest station: Anguk). We ordered a sweet pumpkin porridge (comes with rice balls) and a savory abalone porridge to share. Total bill 18,000won (S$21.50). The portion was huge, and we love both the porridge and the side dishes!

After lunch, we went to check out the Bukchon Traditional Cultural Centre and the Bukchon Hanok Village which sits between the two palaces of the Joseon Dynasty, Gyeongbokgung and Changdeokgung.



Random boutique shop in the centre of the village

Next destination, Changdeokgung Palace at 3pm to catch the English Tour.

Admission Fee: 6000won (adult)

Entrance

Lovely tour guide carrying a cute umbrella

 

After the tour, we took a stroll to the Gwanghwamun station and saw Admiral Yi Sun Sin (이순신)'s statue in front of Gyeongbokgung palace and Gwanghwamun Square. Yi Sun Sin is Korea's famed naval commander and national hero. You can read more about him from http://www.koreanhero.net/en/home.htm

 

 

One of the things that I love about Seoul is that there are mountains in the city, it is always such a beautiful sight especially when the sun is setting.

 

In Jeju, we chanced upon a cartoon called Larva, below are the 2 main characters from the cartoon. Sis said it is very popular especially amongst children, it's really quite hilarious so do check it out on Youtube.

Took the subway to Insadong to buy the hair treatment from Etude House.

 

And we noticed a really long queue outside this ice cream shop so we decided to queue too, thinking that it might taste amazing. After queuing for 10 mins, we got our spiral cone filled with vanilla ice-cream which cost 3000won (S$3.60) - quite expensive yea? The vanilla ice cream tasted normal but the cone reminded me of the childhood days, tasted like some corn crackers :)

 

Met sis for dinner at Hongdae, we wanted to try the barbeque franchise store owned by Korean variety show -Running Man member, Haha. We ordered 2 servings of samgyupsal, 1 serving of large intestines and 1 makgeolli (korean rice wine) to share. The bill came up to 40,000won (S$47.70).

 

The large intestines were too chewy for my liking, but the samgyupsal was good but the jeju black pork was still the best! First time trying makgeolli, so nice! Goes well with barbeque, do try it!

For dessert, Sis brought us to Puzzle cafe @ Hongdae. Koreans love to eat, sis says that when they are out, they will go for many rounds - dinner, coffee, drinks, supper. Love their culture haha..

Anyways, we spent 25000won (S$30) for 2 drinks and a chocolate banana pancake. You can loan any puzzles on display or purchase puzzles and if you can't finish piece-ing them together, you can ask them to safekeep for you and you can come back another time to complete it. Isn't it very interesting? :)

 

We chose the small puzzles haha

PetiteFreckles ♥