It been quite sometime since last visit to Evergreen Laurel Hotel, our last visit was few years back where we bought Groupon voucher and visit to their buffet but that is not so good experience. We heard they have improve a lot after renovation and we really looking forward to try it out again.
We got an exciting news to share in regards to the Re-opening promotion from Cafe Laurel, Buy 2 Free 1 Dinner Buffet for just RM118nett per person. Promotion valid till end of October 2015.
International Buffet Dinner
Sunday - Thursday 7pm - 10pm
RM98nett per adult, FREE for kids below 12 years old
Promotion - Buy 2 Free 1
Japanese and Seafood Buffet
Friday and Saturday 6.30pm - 10pm
RM118nett per adult, FREE for kids below 12 years old
Promotion - Buy 2 Free 1
Even more exciting news to share, Buy 1 Free 1 for Lunch and Hi-Tea Promotion.
Buffet Lunch
Monday to Friday 12pm - 2.30pm
RM76nett per adult, FREE for kids below 12 years old
Promotion - Buy 1 Free 1
Hi-Tea Lunch
Saturday & Sunday 12pm - 3.00pm
RM88nett per adult, FREE for kids below 12 years old
Promotion - Buy 1 Free 1
We can really see huge improvement compare to before renovation, there is much more lighting and better table arrangement. Whole area painted with white color which gave a clean and spaces feeling. I particularly enjoy dining in bright lighting rather than in the dim lighting, with the new decoration I feel very comfortable, it is very bright and simple.
Dessert counter are nicely decorated and fill up with colorful dessert, hot stone table on the right side for hot dessert and drink while on the left are filled with fruits and assorted desserts.
Hot dishes counter.
Introducing new action counter for Char Koay Teow and Portuguese Grilled Fish.
Another action counter for Grilled Seafood and Soup Noodle.
On the hot dishes counter, there is a lot of hot dishes that caught my attention such as the Chili Crab, Salmon Fish Head and Deep Fried Prawn. I have to speak out loud that I LOVE Chili Crab! I am very surprise by the huge size of Crab served here, it is very big and fresh. I love the Chili sauce very much as it taste sweet with mild spiciness, we took one big plate and myself almost finish all. It was too good. Same goes to deep fried prawn which are coated with a layer of Chili flour then deep fried to golden color, it is very flavorful and fresh. Curry Salmon Head taste pretty good as well, thick curry paste and the salmon taste fresh too. What about Curry Squid? If you love those traditional Malay sell Nasi Lemak then you will love this dish, I am a big fans of Malay Nasi Lemak hence the flavor suit me very much, i just love it. Fried Rice and Bee Hoon are not so impressive as it lack of flavor and we just hope it has a little bit more flavor.
Mixed Vegetable
Chat Potato
Kacang Kuda
Seafood Fried Rice
Bee Hoon Goreng
Curry Salmon Fish Head
Curry Sotong
Deep Fried Prawn
Pan Fried Salmon
Clam
Chili Crab
Smoked Salmon Platter
Sweet Sauce Octopus
Otak-Otak are really impressive, we all love it very much.
Japanese Buffet must have Sashimi and they did not disappointing us with their fresh Sashimi offering. Salmon, Red Tuna, White Tuna and Octopus.
Well, how can a Japanese Buffet without Sushi? There is assorted freshly made Sushi available, sushi are nicely season to flavor and ingredients are fresh. Cafe Laurel is a Halal restaurant so they are not allow to use Mirin (Sushi Vinegar) but chef are good in twisting the recipe to create pretty much same flavor as Mirin as replacement, impressive result as we cannot differentiate with Sushi created using Mirin.
If you prefer to have cooked seafood then move forward to Cold Seafood Bar for a big plate of Muscle, Prawn, Scallop and Crab (They served later which i forgot to take photo), assorted dipping sauce are provided and we love the spicy sweet sauce which are perfectly for cold seafood.
Opposite are Grilled Seafood Counter where all seafood are grilled on the spot by chef, seafood included are scallop, prawn and slipper lobster.
We have a big plate of grilled seafood.
Grilled oyster with cheese available as well.
What about Roasted Duck? Yes, there is a big roasted duck waiting for us. Crispy skin with juicy duck meat, dipping with the provided sauce is just delicious.
Move to next counter Salad Bar, a total of 7 different salad served which are Mix Fruit Salad, Tuna Salad, Prawn Salad, Squid Salad...etc.
Seafood Soup which taste like shark fin soup but instead of shark fin there replace with Chicken Meat, Mushroom, Crab Stick...etc. Too bad I can't find any vinegar else it will be perfect.
Mushroom soup is rather normal.
Not so much choice on Bakery but who care, local people don't eat bread during buffet. LOL!
Tempura for Prawn, Carrot, Mushroom and Vegetable are rather disappointed as it is not crispy.
Moving toward Portuguese Grilled Station next, assorted fish and muscle are available. You just need to place your order and collect it later, it take sometime to prepare. I like the chili paste very much, it taste sauteed with strong dried shrimp flavor in it, i would recommend you to ask the chef to add more chili paste as it really good.
Char Koay Teow, a very famous local signature dish that should not be miss. Although it not as good as those famous Char Koay Teow in town but it still not bad but the only missing item are PRAWN, where is my prawn? My solution is to get the prawn from noodle station and ask them to add it while cooking or take the deep fried prawn and add it yourself.
Self cook Tomyam noodle, you get to choose your own ingredients and noodle then cook it with hot water. Two soup available are Chicken Stock or Tomyam Soup, tasted the Tomyam soup and not bad.
Shall we move to Dessert and Fruit station now? We are at 95% full and still there is a lot dessert we want to eat. There is so many choices of Dessert that I failed to name all of them, among those i remember are Mochi, Lemon Cheese Cake, Tiramisu, Pudding, Chocolate Cake, Pandan Cake, Bread Pudding...etc. The list is too long to keep in my short-term memory brain. Overall dessert are good, moist and not too sweet.
Longan Hot Dessert.
While on the Fruits station there is 7 different type of fresh fruits.
Wax Apple
Watermelon
Star Fruits
Papaya
Pineapple
Apple
Honey Dew
Ice Cream Station with assorted topping.
Saw the Coffee Machine and get excited, if you follow my blog for sure you know what I going to do next. A cup of Espresso with one scoop of ice cream, AFFOGATO! It just perfect.
Big plate of Chili Crab!
So much prawn!
Dessert Time!
Well, since we input so much calories and cholesterol, it time to put in some fiber. Myself finish one big bowl of fresh fruits.
Overall we are very impressed with Evergreen Laurel newly renovated restaurant, it is very comfortable and food quality improve a lot. If 3 person visit together, it just RM78.66 per person. Well worth the value.
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Evergreen Laurel Hotel Penang
Address: 53 Persiaran Gurney, 10250 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Phone:+60 4-226 9988
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