Last year they treated me to a lunch buffet at MoMo Café but this year we've upgraded to the real Marriott! So grateful I met these lovely girls in university! ♡
20140420
My 21st Birthday: Another Lunch Buffet at the JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong?
Last year they treated me to a lunch buffet at MoMo Café but this year we've upgraded to the real Marriott! So grateful I met these lovely girls in university! ♡
20140418
My 21st Birthday: Oolaa & Pierre Hermé with Jason!
Apart from with my parents, I celebrated my birthday early - one week early, to be exact - with Jason too! It wasn't really much of a celebration, more like just a dinner that he treated me to. Good enough for me I suppose! Though obviously a surprise would've been much nicer, but I really didn't expect anything haha. And I really couldn't muster up the enthusiasm for anything big because my third-quarter review was coming up... Anyway for my 21st, we went to have dinner at Oolaa and then we got yummy macarons at Pierre Hermé at my request!
The flavours we chose, from left to right:
Infiniment Praliné Noisette: Hazelnut Praliné & Praliné Crisp
Chuhao: Chocolate, Blackcurrant & Blackcurrant Berries
Infiniment Rose: Rose & Rose Petal
Chocolat & Foie Gras: Chocolate & Foie Gras
Infiniment Caramel: Salted-Butter Caramel
Infiniment Café Iapar Rouge du Brésil: Red Iapar Coffee from Brazil
Inifiment Chocolat Pérou: Pure Origin Peruvian Dark Chocolate, Morropon Province, Village of Asprobo
Erm... and no pics of the half eaten macarons because we consumed them too fast. All that selfcamming with them made us super desperate to try them that taking more pictures completely slipped my mind. I loved all the flavours though, except the Rose Petal and Chocolate & Foie Gras! The first, we only picked because of the pretty pink colour, so we expected it to not taste that great, but the latter was just too odd for me... haha. I mean, it tasted like foie gras, but it was sweet?! Maybe my taste buds just aren't adventurous enough!
I would say I'm pretty boring with flavours, my favourites were... okay fuck, I can't choose just one. I guess the purest flavours, like the Coffee, Chocolate and Hazelnut ones... wait that's all of them LOL. I just didn't really like the Salted Caramel one because caramel has always been too sweet for me, but I know Jason likes the flavour so we picked it!
Either way I think Pierre Hermé tops Ladurée a gazillion times. The flavours were thicker (more my thing!) and the macarons were bigger and they generally tasted better. But that's just my opinion, I know lots of girls who prefer the classic-ness of Ladurée! Try both and see which one you like best! :)
20140406
My 21st Birthday: JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong
Hello hello! It's April again, which means... my birthday is coming up!
I think I've mentioned and explained and complained about how much I hate having my birthday in April despite the fact that I love being an Aries girl, haha, so I won't start on a rant again. My birthday falls three days before my third-quarter review this year so on the actual day, I'll probably be casting concrete... wowza what a lovely way to spend my big 21st!
Never mind, I am quite used to it. "It" being never being able to properly celebrate my April birthday because it's during exam period, and "it" also being slaving away in the studio for architecture 24/7.
So like last year, I celebrated my birthday with my parents... two weeks early! Haha! My actual birthday is the 12th of April but we went to have my birthday lunch ten days before. LOL.
Not much to write about in terms of the food, tbh... because almost exactly one year ago, we went for the same lunch buffet in JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong! Of course I wanted to try a new place, but we were strapped for time because a) I'm only free on Wednesdays thanks to architecture, b) I had a doctor's appointment at Queen Mary Hospital right after lunch time at 3PM so the place had to be in Admiralty and c) there are only three hotels in Admiralty: Island Shangri-la, JW Marriott, and Conrad.
Honestly between Shangri-la and Marriott, I prefer the Shangri-la buffet more. I mean, I think they both serve really good food but Shangri-la has more variety and MACARONS, which I really, really wanted to eat!!! But then we went for Shangri-la's lunch buffet just three months ago on Christmas Eve.... so the food selection wouldn't come as a surprise and lets admit it, the best part of a buffet is the anticipation beforehand. So bleh.
Initially we decided on eating at Conrad but the reviews about the buffet there weren't so great. And my Mum's friends all did not recommend it. And going through the pics on Openrice, I must say that Shangri-la and Marriott's pictures and reviews top Conrad's. Sigh. So after much, much, much consideration I decided on Marriott's buffet.
Wow shit I went off on a tangent again. Sort of. Wtf.
And sorry I didn't take pictures of the buffet stand because - FUCK I'M GONNA GO OFF ON A LONG RANT AGAIN SORRY - it was storming and raining and thundering all the way there, and we ended up being more than half an hour late?! By the time we reached the hotel, the buffet was in full swing and people were everywhere and it was soooo damn crowded even on a Wednesday afternoon that there was no way I would be able to get a nice photo anyway.
And plus I didn't want to delay eating any longer, haha.
I had four full plates of desserts! Not including the savoury dishes a.k.a. main course I had before and the birthday cake, which I ate all by myself because by the time we had the birthday cake, my parents were full. Buffets are where I allow myself to go all out. No guilt for binging! The opera cake, tiramisu and peanut butter cookies were my favourites. :) I tried to eat less for my savoury plates so I could spam desserts actually... my favourite! I ended up with a really bad stomachache after lunch though. :(
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