Forest (森) is located at Equarius Hotel in Resorts World Sentosa (RWS). This restaurant is opened in partnership with RWS by Singapore famous celebrity chef Sam Leong after he left Tung Lok Restaurant Group. The restaurant is named after his wife, forest who is also a chef.
For those who are not familiar with the Singapore food scene, this is chef Sam Leong. He is also in the international culinary panel of chef for Singapore Airlines.
Have heard a lot about him so decided to give a try at their Sunday brunch buffet. There has been an increase in price recently, the brunch used to be $58++ but its $65++ now, which works out to $70.65 per person after including the service charge and government tax.
Forest also have a nice cosy outdoor dining area.
A look at the in door dining area, this picture was taken before the brunch starts at noon hence it is still empty.
The interior design of the restaurant also adapts the forest theme, nicely done up.
I will go straight to the food which is interest to all of you. The above is the salad bar and a look at their 'theatre kitchen'; a open kitchen concept where you can see how the chef prepares the food.
The buffet is basically segregated into 10 sections: Cold Seafood (oyster, clams, prawns), Sushi & Sashimi Bar, Drinks (lemon grass, water melon juice), Salad Bar, Chinese Food, Dim Sim, Soup & porridge, Noodle Section (where some one will cook the noodles for you on the spot, for this Sunday they have the glass noodles with clams in drunken soup), Roast Meat (Pork & Duck) and Dessert.
The above is the Chinese food section, which include dishes like fried noodles, fried rice, crispy chicken with home made sauce, fried pork belly, char siew soh, nugget, fried vegetables, Sri Lanka black pepper crab, mutton and aloo capsicum.
The 4 treasure soup, I have no idea what are the four treasures though, there is chicken, crab meat, dried scallop and mushroom in it.
Some of the dim sum I took: siew mai, scallop dumpling and lotus rice. The ingredients used are all of good quality and the taste is well balanced.
A platter from the seafood section, the seafood were very fresh and juicy. The staff also replenished them very frequently even though the oyster always get swept off the 'ice bar' as soon as they arrived.
This is the roast pork and roast duck wrap. The roast pork skin is very crispy however the taste is very blend, as for the roast duck wrap, the wrap is too thick and soggy hence its texture isn't too good in the mouth although the taste is alright.
Dessert time, there is quite a wide spread of dessert but the hottest item seems to be the macaroon which keeps running out but again I must compliment them for replenishing them very regularly. In general I quite like their dessert. I will recommend the lemon grass jelly, the chocolate fudge cake and the macaroon.
The top row is coconut pudding with mango, 2nd row is the lemon grass jelly with pineapple , 3rd row is the oreo expresso pudding.
They also have a good spread of kuay and some tarts which I am too full to try.
And in all buffet I will always end with fruits, The spread of fruits is much better than alot of buffet places, there's rock melon, strawberries, honey dew, grapes, watermelon and pineapple.
These are my choice of dessert.
The spread at forest is a bit limited at the new price tag of $65++, however they do serve quality food with good ingredients. Will I go back? Probably not in the near future unless there is some promotion or change in the food spread or they have a themed buffet like crab buffet. But if you haven't been to forest before its worth giving it a try.
Level 1 Equarius Hotel
8 Sentosa Gateway, Resorts World Sentosa
Breakfast: 7.30am -10.30am (daily)
Lunch: 12pm - 2.30pm (Mon-Sat)
Dinner: 6pm - 10.30pm (Mon-Sun)
Brunch: 12pm - 3pm (Sun)
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