Nutritious food for buffet lovers now comes cooked with Chinese expertise and featuring Chinese specialties. Chinese dishes are famous for their taste differences but also for their ingredients and nutritious elements. Chinese meals are usually of such foods as pork, beef, chicken, fish and vegetables. The stewed soup is indispensable. In fact, the hot soup is not only the starter of a meal but it also plays the role of a "nutrition doctor," helping the body discharge the calories and feel cooler.
Saigonese are very familiar with such dishes as Chinese chickens, pig brains stewed in herbal leaves, or stewed ducks. All these are served in many restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City.
To meet the demand for typical Chinese food, the Colours Caf‚ at the Oscar Hotel is running a "Nutritious Buffet" program. Much time and effort has gone into this and it has more than 30 dishes offering tastiness and nutrition to satisfy the body after a long week of hard work.
Women can leave their weight worries outside as they have the tastiest slices of well-cooked meat. The reason is that the meat dishes will be immediately followed by pig stomach stewed in herbal fruits, duck stewed in salted lemon, or chicken legs stewed in reed roots, which will help their digestion and reduce the heat of their body. Male diners will be tempted by cow tails stewed with seahorses, good for their kidneys, a bull's reproductive organ stewed in herbal roots, good for their virility, or pig hearts stewed in lettuce, good for their own heart.
The starters are also mouthwatering, being Hong Kong-style jellyfish salad, shellfish steamed in garlic, snails steamed in citronella, and desserts like jelly soup, partridge eggs in sweet soup and more. Diners will also be able to admire the sophisticated decorations of lacquer pictures, roses and so on, as romantic songs play to help them enjoy their meals even more.
The buffet is from 6.30 to 9.30 every Friday night, at VND88,000 for an adult and VND48,000 for a child. Tickets are sold in advance at the
Oscar Hotel
Add: 68A Nguyen Hue St., Dist. 1, Ho Chi Minh City
Tel: (84-8) 829 2959.
