Crystal Jade Korean BBQ buffet at nex offers excellent value
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Crystal Jade Korean BBQ buffet at nex offers excellent value
BBQ cum hotpot meal is packed with many items including cooked dishes, snacks, desserts, ice-cream and drinks.

Singapore, January 8, 2010

Crystal Jade Korean BBQ
nex level 1

See pictures of the big spread of food for BBQ and hotpot at Crystal Jade Korean BBQ

At the new nex shoppping mall in Serangoon, fans of Crystal Jade have two dining options - Crystal Jade Kitchen, a popular budget concept, or a new value-for-money Korean BBQ buffet next door.

The latter at Crystal Jade Korean BBQ allows you to pig out at reasonable prices - from $19.90++ to $23.90++ on weekdays, and a few dollars more on weekends.

Kids and students can enjoy the seemingly endless feast at about half price.

The restaurant opening deal for adults is tempting - if there are four of you, there's only need to pay for three.

The spread is large, teeming with choices from meats and seafood to vegetables and cooked dishes.

The BBQ selection boasts about 18 items like beef, chicken fillet, chicken wing, spicy chicken (marinated with Korean chilli powder), curry chicken fillet (seasoned with curry powder), pork, spicy pork, bacon, mutton and fish for grilling - like sanma, saba or cod.

The seafood items for BBQ include mussel, prawns, fish fillet (we had a 'fruit' fish on Thursday), spicy fish fillet, cuttlefish rings and spicy cuttlefish rings.

The non-spiced items are marinated with classic Korean flavours - garlic, ginger, sesame oil, soy sauce and Korean BBQ sauce.

The meat and seafood items for the hotpot are mostly the same as those for BBQ except that they're not seasoned. There are also small flower crabs, meat balls, beancurd, tripe, assorted mushrooms and veggies, noodles and vermicelli.

The soups available for hotpot are pork rib soup and spicy kimchi soup, which become rather flavourful quickly.

Two more soups are available on the spread such as Korean ginseng chicken and spicy beancurd soup with a seafood stock.

The cooked dishes on the spread are enough to fill you up - fried vermicelli Korean style, fried rice, fried nian gao, sauted clams and mussels, marinated chicken, and sweet and sour pork.

If you like the Crystal Jade signature snacks, you can enjoy all you want - char siew bao, char siew soh, spring rolls and osmanthus, coconut, waterchestnut and red bean pudding and jellies.

There are also ice-creams and soft drinks.

We found most of the items reasonably fresh. There's even pork fat for you to crisp on the grill and use them on your food.

Next door, Crystal Jade Kitchen is offering a steamed chicken marinated with rock salt and lemongrass.

It costs only $10 during the month-long promotion. Yes, it's worth a try - the meat is tender and juicy,

Crystal Jade Kitchen and Crystal Jade Korean BBQ
Level 1, 01 -01/02
nex
23 Serangoon Central
Sinagpore 556083

See pictures of the big spread of food for BBQ and hotpot at Crystal Jade Korean BBQ

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I went for Sat dinner and we found it is really value for money and the varieties is good and fresh. To me it's not disappointed like what Anchorage posted: no crab and no beef, maybe also depends on where you are seated. We seat next to the raw foods counter and saw the staffs keep replenishing and some of them really gone in second if you don’t act fast, personally I like the beef and mutton very much. The cooked food section also not bad in selection and different varieties is being served when one’s is run out. The dessert although is just pudding and jelly but all are refreshing after a heavy meal of BBQ.

Posted by samy0510 on Wed Jan 12 2011 at 22:00 PM

C'mon! You must be exaggerating! The Geylang PRC-run hotpots are the worst.

If you were to compare item by item, its source and supplier, you would realise that Crystal Jade is far better. No doubt some items are frozen like fish and meatballs, etc, they are generally acceptable. Many of the items are fresh.

Do any of the Geylang hotpots offer Crystal Jade standard char siew bao or char siew soh or the puddings and desserts? Are the meats at Crystal Jade far worse than Geylang ones?

This is a budget restaurant, whose standards are far better than What's That Seoul?

Also, if you didn't like the seafood in the buffet, you can always order a live seafood from the tanks at Crystal Jade.

You should be sent to work in the Geylang hotpot kitchen .....

Posted by CelineC on Tue Jan 11 2011 at 21:27 PM

Disappointed last Sat Lunch, similar to what you get from the numerous geylang type of steamboat. The different is the price and location. They run of out beef, no crab and only 1 type of soup base. Service is good but food quality is down the drain for crystal jade.

Posted by Anchorage on Mon Jan 10 2011 at 17:21 PM
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