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Food glorious food

2 nice places for dinner to introduce to everyone, but due to my current internship stint at DSTA, I do not use a camera phone during weekdays and somehow the food is so good that taking photos seem to be the last thing on our mind.

Kuishinbo @ Suntec
I'm sure many people have heard of or even tried Kuishinbo and this is my first time eating since I dun really have a liking towards raw food so its kinda 'bo hua' for me to have a jap buffet. But not until I heard that Kuishinbo offers snow crabs for its dinner buffet, thus even ar a festive price of $43.90++ coming up to $51, it felt it was still well-worth the price.

Generous servings of snow crab in 'leg' servings meaning they have cut the crabs up into individual legs and unlike your regular Sri Lankan chili crabs, the legs are where all the meat are and the snow crabs are replenished regularly. Every table has a pair of scissors for the snow crabs and it really is very useful in order to draw out the chunky crab meat. Must try at Kuishinbo.

Surprise to see Wagyu beef offered at the teppanyaki counter but at this buffet price, it should be the lower grade Wagyu. Then again no harm trying.... beef stir fried in cubes normally are at least a little tough since its almost well-done but surprisingly this is pretty tender, might be the relatively higher fat content of Wagyu beef.

Other nice items to try would be the cream dory fillet from the teppanyaki counter which is rather smooth and the desserts and ice-cream which I find rather delicious. Worth a mention are the fruits which are pretty sweet unlike other buffets that do not pay much attention to the fruits.


Ricciotti
A nice little Italian restaurant overshadowed by the Jumbo Seafood restaurant beside it along Boat Quay(opposite Central). Can't really comment on the interiors since they were renovating a rather large part of it but I do feel that the tables are rather too close to each other for a nice chat during and after meal.

Tried the Tiger Prawns linguine and mahgerita (i think) pizza for mains and both turned out pretty good. Can see lotsa garlic on the pasta but it isn't overpowering but I guess its a little too oily even for me, even though its (dunno how many extra) virgin olive oil. Pizza was thin enough to not feel like eating roti prata with tomato sauce, so 'doughy'.

I must say the desserts were pretty good, the soffiato which is actually kinda like chocolate cake with moist chocolate in the middle served with ice cream was not too chocolaty I dun really like the heaty feeling after eating chocolates. The ricciotti dessert was okay only, jelly onto of cake with a hint of wine flavour wasn't to our liking but at least it wasn't too bad. Do note that they have a promotion of 50% off for desserts after 9.30pm for take-aways only. Not a bad deal since items there aren't too expensive. Desserts typically sell at $8-9 a piece.