Breakfast at the River Terrace, Mandarin Oriental Bangkok

In most of the buffets, either breakfast, lunch or dinner, only specific drinks or food are served. For example, some buffets would only be served with hot coffee or tea, or more variably with iced coffee or iced tea. At the Riverside Terrace, we are not just offered for iced drinks. Much beyond, cold chocolate (chilled without iced) or iced chocolate (definitely with ice cubes) and a wide variety of fruit juice (freshly squeezed to your order) and vegetable juice. Of course, you don't need to drink all of them. The interesting thing is the waiter/waitress would remember what you got the day before, just like they offer us for an Thai omelette by saying "What about a Thai omelette today as you already tried a noodle soup yesterday.". Even something not on the menu and as they can offer (of course we need to be reasonable as a respect), they would cater for your request, just like Banana smoothie, mango orange frosty...etc. There are times they offer some stir fried dishes but my stomach really can't have any more room. It's all due to their high quality food I can't resist each time I pass by them. To name a few, their honey ham is the best I have ever tried, as well as all the pastry, bread and cakes and even fresh fruits.

We may have heard of some comments on discriminating hotel food as something common, but I would simply comment a quality hotel should have their restaurants kept at a higher standard. What's wrong for getting food made by a hotel restaurant? Would good food only be available in local established and self-acclaimed authentic restaurants? When we ask for not discriminating food from street stalls or those characteristic restaurants, we shouldn't have our double standard by labeling or discriminating hotel restaurants because it's a hotel. Be it in our open mind. Be it in our walk of life.