Spice Market Café

Spice Market Café, Rasa Sayang Resort (26 March 2017)


B. Melayu

Spice Market Café is an informal buffet restaurant at Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa. Located on the Garden Wing of the resort, it offers a wide range of cuisine including Chinese, Nyonya, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Western and International.

As you enter the café, you pass by the Spice Boutique, a gallery showcasing some one hundred types of herbs and spices that are found in Asia, particularly the Malay archipelago. This boutique provides foreign tourists an insight into the spices instrumental for the spice trade, which induced western powers to come to this region hundreds of years ago. An interpretive board recounts the history of the spice trade, the activities of the East India Company, and the role of spice that shaped Penang. Many of the spices at the Spice Boutique are available for purchase, as souvenirs of this region.

Our visits to Spice Market Café

25 July, 2019
My wife and I enjoyed a lovely dinner here courtesy of the hotel, in conjunction with the launch of #MyShangriLa photo contest.

Spice Market Cafe, Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa (25 July 2019)


Spice Market Cafe, Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa (25 July 2019)


Spice Market Cafe, Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa (25 July 2019)

Our visit to Spice Market Café

My wife and I had the pleasure of trying out the buffet lunch at Spice Market Café on Sunday, 26 March, 2017. When we arrived at around 12:00noon, the items were freshly laid out. There was such a bountiful array of food, with different items allocated a different food island. On one side, there was poached seafood including crab, yabby crayfish, mussels and prawns. Next to it, there was Japanese cuisine such as sushi, sashimi and tempura, along with Japanese pickles.

Those who wish to start their meal with salad and cold cuts would be delighted with the many different types of salads at the salad station. There was also cold cuts, smoked salmon with capers, and at least three different types of cheese namely Emmental, Brie and Blue Cheese (one of those things on my list of "acquired taste"), with accompaniments including cashew nuts, raisins, black olives, roasted mushroom, and many other items.

Over at the next counter, we found dishes from the Indian subcontinent. There are different types of Indian roti as well as Tandoori chicken. Then, there's also various grilled items such as grilled lamb and beef as well as chicken sausages. And if that's not enough, one whole area is set aside for yong tau foo items.

The buffet at Spice Market Café is certainly one of the better buffets I have ever tasted. Even though I just could not try every item, all the items I have tasted were superb and in keeping with the standard I would expect from an establishment of the calibre of Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa.

And finally, if you have a sweet tooth, you are in for a treat. When you are done with the savoury items, proceed to indulge yourself at the dessert station, where a whole array of sinfully sweet stuff is on hand to provide you your sugar rush! There's Strawberry Bavaroise, Pecan tart, Marble Cheesecake and St. Honoré Cake, to name a few. I try as many items as my stomach can accommodate, and if you love desserts, spare some space in your stomach!

The lunch buffet at Spice Market Café is a wonderful buffet which my wife and I enjoyed tremendously. We are most thankful to Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa's Director of Communication, Mr Suleiman Tunku Abdul Rahman, for giving us the opportunity to experience it. If you have the chance, you should come give it a try!

Reservations

For bookings and table reservations at Spice Market Café, contact Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa at (60 4) 888 8888.

My wife and I at The Spice Boutique, which is at the entrance to Spice Market Café (26 March 2017)


The Spice Boutique (26 March 2017)


The Dining Hall of Spice Market Café, Rasa Sayang Resort (26 March 2017)


Spice Market Café, Rasa Sayang Resort (26 March 2017)


Sous Chef Danny Lee giving the thumbs up to food at Spice Market Café (26 March 2017)


Spanner crab, also called Ranina Ranina, at Spice Market Café (26 March 2017)


Yabbies or freshwater crayfish on ice at Spice Market Café (26 March 2017)


Succulent mussels at Spice Market Café (26 March 2017)


Baby octopus, kimchi, and various Japanese accompaniments at Spice Market Café (26 March 2017)


Your choice of cheeses and jams at Spice Market Café (26 March 2017)


Roasted chicken at the carving station of Spice Market Café (26 March 2017)

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