Yummy Workshop

Yummy in Las Vegas! Just shortly before the win­ter hol­i­days, my mom and I went to Las Vegas for a 4 days, 3 nights trip. Besides just check­ing out the dif­fer­ent hotels and attrac­tions, of course we had to have buf­fet. Just edit­ing and upload­ing the pho­tos of food reminded me of all the yummy flavours! We had a 3 meals of buf­fet, one at Bel­la­gio and two at Trea­sure Island (given we were stay­ing there so we had awe­some discounts).

This post is part one of my Las Vegas trip, the first buf­fet that we went to was at Bel­la­gio. Bel­la­gio is also famous for their humon­gous foun­tain. Since my friend strongly rec­om­mended their buf­fet so we had to go try. Din­ner was $29.95/adult, plus taxes.

Let’s tackle the Bel­la­gio buffet!

The buf­fet had so many sta­tions, the first one I went to was the meat sta­tion (as you can see from my first plate). I had some roasted Kurobuta pork with BBQ sauce and Wagyu beef. They were really ten­der and weren’t dry at all! I per­son­ally liked the pork more than the beef because I thought the beef wasn’t as flavour­ful. The Ital­ian sausage was also very deli­cious and well flavoured.

I also had some rotis­serie chicken, which was right beside the prime rib roast (like pic­tured). My mom (being Asian) asked me why I got chicken and not other stuff like seafood. (LOL) Well, doesn’t the chicken look good? It was really ten­der, juicy and deli­cious, so why not?

Before I went for my sec­ond plate, I saw another lady sit­ting close to our table with (lit­er­ally) a moun­tain of crab legs on her plate which made me won­der if they were THAT good. So for the sec­ond round, I went for the crab legs, fish, prime rib roast some Chi­nese veg­gies. Being a Chi­nese, I would think that the buf­fet wouldn’t offer authen­tic Asian flavours. But to my sur­prise, the greens were really good with gar­lic flavour and the crunch of toasted sesame seeds (although not the usual sus­pect, it turned out pretty good). The fish (for­got what kind) was really good — ten­der and fresh. As for the Alaskan/Snow crab legs, it wasn’t really as good as I expected. The tex­ture was a lit­tle tough, I thought. The prime rib roast really (kind of) blew me away. It was even more ten­der that the Wagyu beef I had ear­lier, I also helped myself to some au jus and mush­rooms. It was so juicy and ten­der but still had good tex­ture in the meat and the au jus added so much beef flavour. The mush­room on the other hand, tasted WAY bet­ter than they looked, they paired so well with the beef!

How can one for­get about dessert? There were so many kinds, my stom­ach can’t fit all the of them! We had the flan — good but could be bet­ter. Rasp­berry macroon — not bad, but pretty big for a macroon. The one beside it was some tart topped with meringue — for­got what it tasted like.

The one on the left was a choco­late mouse cake — very good pre­sen­ta­tion, and tasted good. The other one was a cof­fee cup, lay­ered with cof­fee cream, cus­tard and topped with whipped cream — so good, prob­a­bly the best out of these desserts. We also had the Tiramisu (don’t have a good photo of if), but it wasn’t remarkable.

So…that pretty much sums up my buf­fet at Bel­la­gio. There were also some other lit­tle things I had, like the cock­tail shrimp (so sweet and plump), a bowl of very, very, salty miso soup etc. I was SOOO full after, which is why I typ­i­cally don’t enjoy buf­fet too much because I don’t have a huge appetite. But of course, Las Vegas is an excep­tion. Hope you are as hun­gry read­ing this as I was while writ­ing this post. I think the price was totally worth it given the fresh­ness and vari­ety of the food.

Wait! There is a Part 2 com­ing soon, STAY TUNED.