As someone who was born on an island, I just can’t say no to good seafood. This is the reason why I went back to InterContinental Hotel’s Serena Brasserie for their seafood buffet review this year as I remember how good was last year’s spread.
Fresh Seafood Promotion at InterContinental Hotel, KL
Before we get started on the food, lets look at the important bits of this buffet:
- available every Friday and Saturday nights
- RM 120++ for adults
- upgrade to W.O.W (Wine of the Week) package for RM 180++ which includes a bottle of red or white wine
Additionally, Halloween ‘Scream for Seafood” promotion is priced the same on 31st Oct 2014 with best dressed male and female for the night taking away vouchers of award-winning restaurant, Tao Chinese cuisine and Tatsu Japanese cuisine.
tuna, crabs, octopus, oyster, mussel, slipper lobster, crayfish, and more
The most important line of this buffet spread is the chilled seafood bar, it is the most impressive I’ve seen yet on any buffet.
On the bed of ice you can find premium cuts of tuna, butterfish, Pacific prawn, New Zealand green lip mussels, crayfish, slipper lobster, octopus, Fine de Claire oysters, Australian yabbies, spanner crab, mud crab, and Harvey Bar half shell scallops.
These are either raw or boiled, the minimal preparation method retains the original sweetness of the seafood to be enjoyed as is or with the variety of condiments available.
live Australian yabbies stir fried, grilled, or eaten sashimi style
A unique selling point at this buffet spread is the availability of live Australian yabbies, a type of freshwater crayfish. These yabbies are fished out of the pond in the restaurant and prepared fresh in several ways of your choosing – stir fried, grilled, or even eaten raw sashimi style.
A word of caution – the raw yabby may twitch when you pour some tabasco sauce on it!
seafood and other dishes on the buffet spread, with cute Halloween deco
There’s also an outdoor portion of the restaurant that prepares freshly grilled seafood of your choosing, this includes crabs, slipper lobster, prawn, cuttlefish, yabbies, fish filet, and more. Additionally, they also serve beef and chicken satey.
a good selection of traditional dishes on the buffet spread too
Of course, in addition to fresh and grilled seafood, there’s plenty of traditional dishes to choose from on the buffet spread. Beef rendang, bok choy, briyani rice, crab curry, roast meat, and more are among the many ready-to-eat cooked dishes to choose from.
Halloween themed desserts fancy you?
For the dessert lovers, a pretty decent selection of mostly Western style desserts is available for your picking. Cakes, bread and butter puddings, and many more are available. The chef also showcase his talent in some pretty interesting looking Halloween themed desserts too.
fresh and grilled seafood were my choice, Li Vian joined me at Serena Brasserie
We thoroughly enjoyed the buffet spread at Serena Brasserie. Executive chef Sam Kung certainly know what he’s doing, upgrading the already very good spread from last year to the excellent selection this year. If you’re looking for a good seafood buffet, this is one that you shouldn’t miss.
Address:
Serena Brasserie
Intercontinental Hotel
165 Jalan Ampang,
50450 Kuala Lumpur
GPS:Â 3.159767, 101.718045
Tel:Â 03-2161 1111
Web:Â www.intercontinental.com
Oh what fun – those Halloween themed desserts!
The Yum List: creative chef isn’t it?
Great idea using the peppers instead of just sticking to pumpkins.
suituapui: ya, fits in the tray too!
Oh those fingers look cute! I haven’t tried eating live yabbies, do they taste like raw prawns too?
Ken: yeah, pretty much in between raw prawn/lobster.
KY, Intercontinental Hotel are great and their lounges with upgrade in rooms is adding plus.
The one in Hong Kong have free buffet in lounge for upgrade guests. High Noon Tea was just like
the downstairs restaurant with same type of food and teas. You don’t have to go out to eat with
that type of service in their lounge.
Vickie: yah, very good quality of food too.
yab yab yab yabbies…
walau, halloween will become a national holiday, i should have purchased shares of halloween inc.
immature: do it! hahahah.
The buffet here is pretty mind boggling with loads of awesome seafood! Love it!!