Lemon Garden Cafe, Shangri-La.

Long Overdue Post (LOP). Buffet dinner @ above-mentioned, girlfriend's treat. Jam-packed with families, unsure of the real cause but suspect its for Mother's Day, which was around the corner. Felt that the service was quite slow, refills not done promptly and utensils were not cleared off immediately, might be due to overwhelming amount of diners but no excuses! And it was a little too warm for my liking, hhmmm... Looking around, things seems a little chaotic for me with waiters and waitresses rushing here and there. Imagine having to head into the restaurant again to look for someone to attend to me at the cashier's counter *rolls-eyes* Or maybe my expectations were a little high caused by recommendations and praises by others.

Fortunately, the spread were ample and not-disappointing, with local delights, western grills, japanese seafood, italian pastas, chinese dim sums and so on. Best catch was definitely the desserts, like, a kid in candyland all over again. Were not able to try everything there but I guess I managed to cover about 70% perhaps and regrettably missing on one item what I really wanted, the deep-fried soft shell crab. I tell you, its quite an impossible task because the first person in line would take about 60% of everything, then the second in line, most probably related to the first, takes everything else. Needs 2 person because 2 plates can't fill everything. Should have a limit like, 5 pieces to person, ala controlled items.

Things people would do for food. The light blue wall in my room which I painted myself, very pretty Hoh? Hoh? Hoh?

The free food vouchers and its envelope. Eating utensils, there's something for everything and the environment, way, way earlier.

Drinking glass. Chocolate Fountain which was quite huge, there's a seperate one for white chocolate, I think. Local delights, rendangs, satay, curry and other high cholestrol stuff. A seperator.

Shark's Fin Soup I think. Not nice. The forever unreacheable Deep Fried Soft Shell Crab. Must be fated. Grilled/BBQed stuff... prawns, chickens, muttons, crayfish, etc. etc. Bottom right, Italian cuisine, the centerpiece being a chocolate pizza.

Dim Sums. Doesn't look really appetizing eh? Walking around with a camera snapping pictures is not an easy task, especially when everyone else is taking food.

Japanese Food. Oishi. Crabs, Oysters, Mussels, Crayfish, Prawns, Crabs. But eveything's chilled, not really my cup of tea.

Sushi, Sashimi and Scallops. Towards later, they actually served HUGE ASS Scallops, like, 10 times the size you're seeing above. Pengsan can? I think my batt went flat at that time.

Some chinese food. An unknown coffee-ish dessert. Cod fish Jed no like. The forgotten plate of food, looks like satay with chilled lobster? Some ketupat as well.

Salad bar. Just beautiful.

Some mini lobster thingy, looks more like a large prawn. Baked Dory? Some potatoes and meat, hahaha. That meat, too chewy.

Prawns and Beef *blood pressure sky high* Ice-cream (blergh). Fruits and more desserts, green tea thingy and more fruits from the chocie fountain. And last but not least...

Look at all the choices!!! ZOMG! I can just go there and munch on desserts only. Sweetness Overdose.

More. So beautiful that it takes more than an empty stomach to make you eat them.

And there you have it, the torture ends, right here, right now. No more. And I would like to apologize for my inability to name every food item, its just been too long. And I ate too much. Anyway, hungry yet?

Lemon Garden Cafe (Opens 6am - 1am daily)
Lobby Level
Shangri-La Hotel
11 Jalan Sultan Ismail
50250 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: (60 3) 2074 3900