Wednesday, March 27, 2019

HCMC Vietnam, Day 3 - Part 2

Continuation of the previous post
During lunch, we went to a buffet restaurant located in Bitexco Financial Tower.
I was so excited to get into one of the tallest buildings in HCMC...which houses a sky deck.
(nope we didn't go to the sky deck)
this building is located at a busy financial district in HCMC
There's a registration counter for visitors entering the building
After the registration we passed thru these turnstile to get to the escalators and lifts
very much like any typical office buildings in KL
The restaurant is located at upper floors with spectacular city view.
It's huge enuff to cater large group, yet the dining place looks neat and bright
these beers greeted us nearby the entrance...woah, free flow!
rambutans...with skin peeled....not bad eh....especially for lazy people like me!
dragon fruits
cut mangos
guavas
all sorts of cakes, desserts, puddings
egg custard pudding
all sorts of 'tong sui' 
the 'pho' station where u can assemble ur own 'pho'
roasted meat section
potato salad
hard boiled egg (the outer red colour is just coloring)
chicken wings
I tink these wines are for display only
yam soup
my favorite salted egg prawns
buns, breads - not sure if these are for consumption or for display only
Caesars salad
crispy Vietnamese spring roll
sauerkraut with sausages
grilled pork rib in Kinh Do sauce
cold section, the below are prawn salads
my favorite pork belly...yummmmm!!!
assorted tempuras --- was too full and I did not manage to try any of these!
assorted pizza (which I did not try either)
there goes the food on my plate
a lil' bit of everything, ended up a plateful of assorted stuffs!!
the desserts that I took - cakes, jelly, sweet bean soup...and some fries to balance out the sweetness
sushi, and soups
I also tried one of the spring rolls
'balut' - a boiled 'developing bird embryo' egg
we left the place feeling full and satisfied...BuRPPPPPPP
there were so much variety and impossible to try out everything
 
Great services and food. The staffs immediately started to clean our tables while we were leaving!


9 comments:

mun said...

Wow! You are very keng! Can take photos of all the food there. Did you eat all the balut? Did you like it? How does it taste?

Libby said...

Yam soup sounds interesting to me

Nux V said...

Mun: There are still plenty more food that I did not take picture. The balut taste like egg with some soft meat & bones. I shared the balut with a few colleagues.

Libby: yea, interesting and is very thick too!

mun said...

Are the bones in the balut egg edible? Did you and your colleagues eat the bones?

Nux V said...

Mun: the bones are soft & edible, u won't realise those are bones when biting on it, just felt a few soft 'crunch'.

Nancy Chan said...

So much to eat. Even taking a small piece of everything will be too much for us to take in.

Rose world said...

Free flow beers?? Wow. My man would be one happy man to enjoy the buffet!!

Nux V said...

Nancy Chan: yea, can't try all at one visit...

Rose World: hehe....he definitely will!




Twilight Man said...

This Bitexco Financial Tower looks like a very modern and impressive landmark in Hanoi.

You ate so much food! I would be sleepy after eating so much delicious food like your. The coloured eggs is so unique to be served as a dish itself.

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