Another nice buffet. Primarily Western and Vietnamese, but with dashes of Indian and Chinese as well. An egg bar, of course, phở, of course. Good choice of vegetables and very good choice of fresh fruit. The bread is excellent, although the croissants were not quite top notch. Nice choice of…
Apologies for the large number of photos, but this was a very spread-out buffet and it was difficult to capture everything. So, what do we have? Very good choice of local dishes. Also excellent spread of hot dishes, including an egg bar (which I seem to have missed in the…
An excellent breakfast buffet. Good choice of local (Chinese) and Western food. Needless to say, hot and cold dishes, good spread of vegetables, cereals, cold cuts and so on. Pancakes, crepes and waffles. The croissants were excellent and my friend vouched for the dim sum (I’m having dim sum for…
Not much to say about this. A fairly decent breakfast, though certainly not among the best airport lounge meals I’ve had. (In any case a category that rarely lends itself to gourmet eating.) A small buffet, with a mixture of western and eastern food. None of it wrong, none of…
Another bicycle ride with plenty of food (phở breakfast, coffee break and Japanese lunch) with this very pleasant bicycle club. I cannot claim to be an expert on phở, the national Vietnamese dish, but I know what I like. And, of course, the phở restaurants tend to serve phở only,…
This was an excellent breakfast, if with one or two very minor drawbacks. A fairly large buffet, featuring local food as well as western and regional. The Taiwanese specialties were delicious. The western food included a good choice of excellent bread,, some of them with a local tinge, various salads…
This is a very uninspiring breakfast. The tea is bags only, but at least the only kind available is oolong. There is a minimal choice of cold cuts and vegetables, with a “cheese” that could only appeal to some Americans (i.e., an indeterminate, plastic yellow slice with a faint resemblance…
OK, it’s unlikely that readers will come upon this place, but – a breakfast is a breakfast. And I am temporarily spending Sunday mornings in Hanoi biking with a very friendly informal club, whose rides always include a breakfast break; and indeed a coffee break. I wonder if they actually…
This was a somewhat unusual breakfast for the region. The buffet is medium-sized, but quite varied, that is to say, various kinds of cheese, fish (the smoked mackerel was excellent!), cold cuts, salad and vegetables. Also a very nice choice of fresh fruit, cut and uncut. The cheese, cold cuts…
My faith in the Southeast Asian breakfast has been restored! This was actually a smaller buffet than at the Royal Hotel Saigon, but considerably better. The one drawback I might mention was that the tea was, of course, bags only. But otherwise: the bread was very good, the croissants were…