For durian lovers, a durian buffet is sort of a dream come true! With costs of durian slowly climbing over time, it does appear attractive to have a durian buffet and fulfill these durian cravings as soon as and for all. At Giant Tampines, there’s a durian buffet (aka durian social gathering or durian fiesta) that runs yearly at a comparatively inexpensive worth.
There are 2 durian buffets which you could be part of:
Standard Durian Buffet: $48 (or $38 for early birds)
Premium Durian Buffet: $78 (or $68 for early birds)
For Standard Durian Buffet, you’ll be capable to take pleasure in varietals resembling black pearl, purple prawn and gang hai.
For Premium Durian Buffet, yup, you’ve guessed it, Mao Shan Wang (MSW) and black gold amongst others.
To sweeten the deal, all clients of the durian buffet at Giant additionally receives a $6 buying voucher at Giant! This means our durian buffet solely prices $32!
The solely catch? You solely have 1 hour to eat as a lot as you’ll be able to throughout this annual durian buffet affair…
The Rules of Durian Buffet at Giant Tampines
The guidelines of the sport at this annual durian buffet is fairly easy. Wear your wrist bands and eat all you’ll be able to in 1 hour. However, there are some particulars that we observed throughout our go to to this annual durian affair at Giant Tampines…
The Tentage is Divided into 2 Different Sections – The Premium and Standard Durian Sections
As you’ll be able to see from the photographs above, there are 2 totally different areas throughout the tentage that may be arrange outdoors Giant Tampines for the Durian Buffet – the Premium part that serves up MSW and Black Gold in addition to the Standard part that serves up purple prawn, gang hai, amongst different varietals.
Pre-Game Preparations
Before your session begins (ours began at 5pm), it will be clever to be on time and register in your wrist bands. About 10 minutes earlier than the session started, we have been capable of enter into the tentage space. Of course, previous to that, we have been eyeing seats that have been firstly, close to to the durian queue and secondly within the path of the enormous outside followers.
What Happens throughout the Durian Buffet at Giant Tampines
At 5pm sharp, we have been allowed to enter the queue to seize our durian plates. Each plate (at first) was crammed as much as the brim. Probably one full durian per plate…
Each particular person is allowed to take as a lot as she or he desires. Usually two plates, since you’ll be able to solely maintain on to 2 plates at a time. But in case you’ve managed to determine the right way to stack 3 plates (or extra), by all means, go forward! Just don’t drop and waste any durians okay?
Towards the half means mark, we observed that the quantity of durians on the tables dropped dramatically. Instead of a full desk on the Standard part, just a few plates stay – as you’ll be able to see from the picture above. Strangely sufficient, we additionally appeared throughout to the Premium part and we observed that the tables WERE FULL! Only one speculation can actually clarify this – that the Premium Mao Shan Wang is so jelak (wealthy and cloying feeling) that folks on the Premium part, stopped going again for seconds or thirds. Or, alongside the identical traces, the MSW has such small seeds and thus a lot wealthy meaty flesh, that one plate of durian can actually fill one up.
Depending in your interpretation of this phenomenon that we noticed, you might
1. Choose to go Standard. Because it’s $30 cheaper than the Premium and could appear that one wouldn’t be capable to refill on MSW anyway.
2. Choose to go Premium. Because one full plate of Mao Shan Wang durian is already price greater than $68.
Either means, you’ll positively benefit from the durian buffet at Giant Tampines. Here’s what we had this time…
What We Had on the Durian Buffet at Giant Tampines 2024
First off, we have been actually spoilt for selection once we first arrived on the queue of the durian buffet. There are the clearly brilliant reddish yellow purple prawn varietal but additionally different much less yellowish however nonetheless simply as tasty varietals like gang hai and black gold…
As you’ll be able to see from the photographs above, the durian choice was really VERY good. Even on the Standard part of the durian buffet, you’ll be able to see that the flesh is rarely watery and the flesh are plump with attractive colors.
How in regards to the style?
We should say that it was FANTASTIC! During the durian buffet, totally different varietals appeared based on the totally different baskets that the employees have been de-shelling from. Hence, we have been capable of style durians that ranged from candy to delicate bitter and aromatic ones. There have been additionally many durians that had fairly small seeds that crammed us up – quick.
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By the time it was 5:30pm (half hour into the durian buffet fiesta at Giant Tampines), we have been already SO FULL! Nonetheless, we managed to filter 5 HUGE plates of durian. As as to if it was definitely worth the $64 that we paid – we expect, DEFINITELY. But it could possibly be simply as worthwhile in case you go along with the Premium durian buffet due to the quantity of flesh that you simply get with the Mao Shan Wang durians.
No matter which buffet you select, you’ll you should definitely benefit from the Giant Durian Buffet when it comes round yearly! Enjoy!
P.S. Remember to e-book your tickets early subsequent 12 months for 2025 and lock within the early chook costs. The durian buffet at Giant Tampines solely runs for two days per 12 months!