Plaza Brasserie @ ParkRoyal on Beach Road

Description directly from ParkRoyal's website:

"From 5 June to 31 August 2013, tuck into the ever-popular Black Pepper and Chilli Crab, alongside a variety of local noodle dishes, such as curry noodles, laksa and mee pok served with soft shell crab. We will also be serving chef's specialties: Nonya Curry Crab, XO Sauce Crab, Stir-fried Crab with Salted Egg Yolk and Steamed Crab with Dang Gui."

I love to eat crabs, and don't get to eat them often, so my gf and I decided to give this a try before the promotion ends. It costs $55++ per pax for a weekday buffet dinner.

We came out rather disappointed. There were so many types of crabs, but none were satisfactory. 

Baked crab

Dry and quite tasteless.

Black pepper crab

The black pepper sauce overpowered everything else. But then again, considering the low quality of their crabs, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

Butter crab

Compared to the baked crab, a bit less dry and a bit more taste. But no buttery taste at all.

Chilli crab

The sauce was a bit watery and tasted a bit weird. It wasn't spicy at all too.

Crab with salted egg yolk

They seemed to use a different kind of salted egg yolk, and it tasted very different from other salted egg yolk crabs we have tried, or even other food seasoned with salted eggs. I love salted egg but this dish definitely failed to satisfy us.

Nonya crab

I fail to see where the 'Nonya' in this dish is.

Steamed crab with dang gui

The herbal soup tasted very diluted. Not surprisingly, the crab didn't taste very good either.

The underlying reason was because the quality of their crabs were not good. They don't taste very fresh, and the distinct flavour of crab meat was definitely lacking.

Since crab was the main draw of the buffet, the other dishes were fewer in variety. There were some normal local food which were average, but at least the sashimi - salmon belly, to be exact - was quite good.

We probably won't come here again.