Chinese New Year Buffet Blooming Abundance at DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Penang

For this coming Chinese New Year, charm your taste buds with the many lunch and dinner buffet at DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Penang. Themed the “Year of Blooming Abundance”, the hotel will be bringing diners on a gastronomical journey with festive dine-in menus.

The festive menus are available at Makan Kitchen, the signature all-day dining restaurant with a relaxed and cheerful vibe.

Year of Blooming Abundance

The CHINESE NEW YEAR EVE 2019 BUFFET DINNER is available from 4th February till 6th February at RM138nett per adult. There will be a 50% discount for senior citizen and kids aged six to12 years old. Children five years and below get to eat for free.

The buffet menu delivers a bountiful line-up to attract abundance and prosperity. It has a range of specials; the quintessential yee sang (with slices of smoked salmon), steamed fish, wok-fried prawns, and decadent desserts.

Prosperity Yee Sang with heaps of vegetables, crackers, and smoked salmon

Dressed with varieties of sauce, crushed peanuts, and sesame seeds, the colorful yee sang with layers of flavors and a good amount of crunch certainly upped the festival happiness factor.

Tossing the yee sang with the chanting of good wishes

For starters, there are the 8 treasures seafood soup, sup ayam berempah, and freshly baked rolls, along with a spread of appetizers and salads.

The appetizers include chili prawns with pineapple & seedless grapes, chicken with shredded honeydew & peanut, squid with green mango, and barbecue duck with plum sauce. For those more in the mood of local salad, the gado gado and ulam are light yet healthy choices.

Rojak, and gado-gado

Smoked salmon

For cold seafood, don’t miss the fresh oysters. Other highlights include boiled prawns, crabs, and green mussels.

The open kitchen offers live cooking where a range of cuisines awaits. Tempt the taste buds with chicken & beef satay, roasted chicken & duck, and the succulent and subtly spiced tandoori chicken.

Noodle lovers will appreciate the selection of noodles which comes in slow boiled nutritious Chinese herbal soup or the fiery white curry soup.

Chinese herbal noodle soup

There is an immense variety of Chinese dishes. Seafood items are prawns in salted egg with curry leaf, Nyonya steam fish with turmeric sauce, and mussels in kam heong sauce.

Wok fried prawns in salted egg with curry leaf

Braised broccoli with fatt choi and dry oysters

For those with a sweet tooth, a dedicated dessert counter with a combination of sweetened Chinese and Western delights will leave you with a feeling of contentment.

Get traditional with the Chinese new year cookies along with Mandarin orange butter cake, red velvet cake, green tea cheese cake, pannacotta, chocolate moist cake, fresh fruit tarts, assorted ice cream and fresh fruits. The pannacotta presented in a chocolate cup is a perfect mouthful while the sago gula Melaka with creamy coconut milk & palm sugar is a popular local choice.