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| Brunch Buffet at the Peninsula Hotel
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| The buffet's selection of yogurts, many unusual: yogurt with mixed cereal
and raisins, yogurt with valencia oranges, yogurt with mixed fruits (the
picture shows dragonfruits, pineapple, plus four more), yogurt with lime
and honey, and greek-style yogurt.
| Loads of pastries. Some of these are unusual are well: coconut and banana
danish, lychee danish, red bean brioche.
| I took a picture of this serving plate of roasted vegetables because I've
never seen such large, elongated brussels sprouts as these (if they are
indeed brussels sprouts).
| Orange-cucumber-mint juice. Good.
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| Dim sum: shu mai, bbq pork bun, pork dumplings.
| "Bestock broiche" (no, I have no idea what it is) (almost decent), bayonne
ham (a plain, mild, elementary school sandwich ham), milano salami
(greasy), french toast (not bad), and banana bread (okay).
| Peach smoothie: basically, drinkable peach yogurt. Very tart. I liked it
a lot, and ended up having three servings.
| The hot food in the buffet was prepared and presented outdoors at these
bars overlooking the river.
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| A raspberry berliner, baked beans, and steamed potatoes.
| Toast with raspberry-blackberry jam.
| Pomelo, papaya, and jackfruit. I've never seen the latter two at
breakfast buffets before. The papaya was over-ripe. As for the jackfruit,
I usually don't like it and still don't. If you don't know about
jackfruit, the flavor and texture is hard to describe, so I'm not going
to. You can read about it on the web.
| My final plate of food. (Gosh I ate a lot!) Toast with butter, roll
with butter, pineapple, and pomelo.
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| Bus To Airport
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| On the bus to the airport, we cross this moat-like structure that
surrounds it.
| Near the airport are these carefully planted rows of trees. If you look
closely, you can see each tree is individual supported and on its own
mound, and there are ditches between each row.
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| Dinner on Plane
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Our flight, on Oriental Thai Air, had decent food but the funniest thing
was that my "teriyaki chicken bento" and Di Yin's "korean pork bento"
tasted about the same. Both used the same sauce for the meat, and the
chicken and pork were both so mild that their differences didn't change
the flavor profile much. Everything else in the boxes were also the same.
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