Alternative Buffet Meals

In an Asian country with the largest population in the world and host to the most number of religions, finding the dietary and culturally appropriate food for group events can either be a joyful or traumatic experience and nothing in between. On the one hand, Singapore boasts of one of the most active commercial centers in the world and there is, therefore, an array of dining establishment and catering services in Singapore that provide an extensive range of choices for the most health conscious individual and most religiously devout group. On the other hand, prices of special food arrangements can be quite costly. 

There are more than 200 dining establishments, restaurants, food joints, and bars on top of events venue and catering services around Singapore and it is easy to think that one can option in meals, prices and extent of services when arranging catering services for family, corporate or group affairs.  

A quick survey of Singaporean catering services would show that the most popular buffet packages for weddings, birthdays and corporate affairs are European supper, Mediterranean luncheon, and American breakfast set. European lunch sets include crab nuggets, Italian baked chicken, golden prawns, fish fillet, sausage croissant, mixed vegetable, bread and butter pudding, salted egg puffs, chocolate eclairs and fruit punch.  Meanwhile, Mediterranean lunch buffet meals include Lamb tagine with currants, almonds and yoghurt, beef kofta with spicy tomato, feta and pine nuts, Portuguese roast chicken drumettes with mint yoghurt, caramelized onion, feta and semi-dried tomato tartlets, cous, tomato and mint salad, roast rosemary and garlic chats, caesar salad with glazed lemon tart best served with berry compote as beverage. And finally, American breakfast buffet is a combination of assorted bread like croissant, white baguette served with served with butter and jam, hot entrée like scrambled eggs, chicken chipolata, turkey bacon slices, sautéed potato served with white onion, grilled tomatoes or herbs, salads like Caesar or fresh vegetable salad and orange juice or brewed coffee.  

But for those with more particular diet and religious considerations, Singaporean catering services are now providing more and more buffet packages to choose from. Those with dietary restrictions can choose from among healthy meal sets that include premium oat rice, mixed grain rice, Evergreen vegetables, steamed fish, vegetable chop suey, tofu, broccoli, whole grain noodles, and mushroom.  For those with religious or cultural restrictions, specifically Muslims, there are now various halal catering service meal sets with special regional variety.  There are Vietnamese halal food sets composed of spring rolls, fresh rice paper rolls with chicken, BBQ beef in betel nut leaves and mango salad, rice paper rolls with prawn, BBQ chicken skewers, butterfly prawns, minced chicken on lemon grass and mango salad. The Thai halal is commonly made up of seasoned vegetable honey chicken, fish fillet, stir fry vegetable, chicken kung po, baby kalian with oyster sauce served with Thai noodles or common arranged with common white rice, special rice with minced chicken and basil leaf or the culturally distinct pineapple fried rice or tom yum seafood rice.  Finally, there is the Malaysian halal food buffet set of coconut-infused rice and comes with a fried chick, sambal, fresh anchovies, peanut, fried egg, and cucumber.