Blue Garden Korean BBQ Buffet Restaurant

May 16, 2011 | 12 Comments

Blue Garden Korean BBQ Buffet

At the ground floor of Link Hotel in Tiong Bahru, is Blue Garden Korean BBQ Restaurant. It currently occupies the space which was used by the now-defunct Persimmon Restaurant. Much of the interior remains intact: the black and white tiled floor, and the kopitiam-style furniture.

Korean food lovers will be happy to know that Blue Garden restaurant offers Korean BBQ buffet during lunch ($19.90) and dinner ($26.90).

My definition of buffet: be prepared to eat a lot.

Korean BBQ

The Korean BBQ Buffet offers free-flow of Korean dishes like Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup, Kimchi Pancakes, Korean Spicy Rice Cakes (Ddukbokkie), and a variety of Kimchi (Spring Onion, Cabbage, Leak, Cucumber).

The truth is, Blue Garden’s appetisers are pretty run-of-the-mill. We tasted a bit of everything as we were saving our stomach for the highlight of Korean BBQ Buffet – MEAT!

Korean BBQ Buffet

… And of course, we were there for the meat. The Korean BBQ Buffet has free flow of Pork Collar, Beef Belly, Pork Belly, and three different types of Bulgogi (beef, chicken and pork). Read my lips: this is an all-you-can-eat-buffet.

Amongst the four of us, we ate enough meat to last us for a week. We ate, and ate and ate. We totally threw the diet plan out of the window – it was crazy! If you are not a big meat-eater, the Korean BBQ Buffet also has seafood and vegetables.

But trust me, you’d want to just go for the meat. Wow, I think I am very good at giving advice! Remember, just go for the meat.

I had some white rice to go along with the meat, but mostly I wrapped the BBQ meat in lettuce leaves. After a while, I was too lazy to put it nicely into the lettuce so I ate the meat directly from the BBQ pit. The bulgogi is delicious!

Blue Garden Korean Restaurant

Considering that places like Crystal Jade Korean Restaurant charges $18 for a plate of marinated meat, I think that Blue Garden’s Korean BBQ Buffet is very reasonably priced. Looking for a cheap and good buffet? Find a group of friends who love meat and go for the Korean BBQ Buffet!

One thing to note though, the air ventilation was almost non-existence; our clothes smelled like Korean BBQ after we were done.

For more recommendations, read Korean Restaurants in Singapore | Buffet in Singapore

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Blue Garden Korean BBQ Buffet Restaurant
50 Tiong Bahru Road
#01-07 Link Hotel Singapore
Tel: +65 6224 0700

Korean BBQ Buffet Lunch $19.90++/pax
Korean BBQ Buffet Dinner $26.90++/pax

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12 Responses to “Blue Garden Korean BBQ Buffet Restaurant”

  1. Anna
    May 17th, 2011 @ 1:48 am

    hi!

    I’m a big korean bbq fan! Thanks so much for this post! I’ve tried Red Pig bbq restaurant (the garlic chicken bbq is nice) and soju bang at tanjong pagar (20 sgd they only open from 530pm- but they use hot grills, not like this one).

    I’ll go and try this one too! thanks!!!

  2. Al
    May 23rd, 2011 @ 5:45 pm

    Thanks for this recommendation! Shall try it asap. I initially thought the Crystal Jade one at Nex was Korean…but then when i went in and took a peek, there wasn’t any of those typical small Korean dish appetisers, so my frens and i headed to the one at Centrepoint. We paid $29.90++ for the weekend buffet dinner. The service was…’rolls eyes’. And some of the orders didn’t arrive. The seafood fried rice was crap. Needless to say, i wanna see how this one will be like..XD

  3. Kayla @ Fitter Than Choc
    May 23rd, 2011 @ 8:12 pm

    Oh yes, Korean food is one of my favourites. I do enjoy beef, but I doubt I can stomach that much beef in one sitting.I’d be happy to fill stomach with lots of kimchi! I’m a big kimchi fan. It seems like I ought to get some of my friends to pig out with me soon:)

  4. Jewel
    May 25th, 2011 @ 5:41 pm

    Went there for the bbq buffet.meat is well marinated and delicious. I love the garlic chicken very much.They only serve plain water and other drinks have to be purchased separately. I thought that the korean bbq at katong is better but of course,the price is slightly more expensive too.

  5. annie
    June 16th, 2011 @ 7:54 pm

    Came to this website and i went to try at this restaurant. It really really is not value for money and totally ruined my day. Firstly, the service there is really bad (and I dont know why we have to pay $10 for service when we practically don’t feel served at all). Point to note: we were the only ones there. I would say that the service is quite bad because they seem to be unhappy when we ask for them, because the meat just don’t seem to cook (fire is not strong enough) so we ended up eating cooked food instead (defeats the purpose of going to a kor BBQ). Secondly, the variety of food is really limited.

  6. annie
    June 16th, 2011 @ 8:01 pm

    Continue: All the soup and cooked food served (even the fresh ones) were all cold! If not, just Luke warm. (Even the ginseng chicken soup, which does not taste like ginseng chicken soup -.-). Thirdly, they only served plain water. I am mostly disgusted by their service because I see them sitting down, chit chatting with one another (wa, so easy to earn money ar). Seriously, for around $22, I will choose Seoul garden over this any day! Seoul garden is cheaper, more variety of food and the service there is 100x better. Not to mention, they have soup base for you! I will rate this restaurant 2/10. Really bad experience and regretted coming here.

  7. mel tan
    June 20th, 2011 @ 6:11 pm

    Now call New Blue Garden Korean BBQ.Had lunch with friends for buffet last saturday @ $19.90 + service charge but no service at all.
    The meat section is limited.Cooked food were cold, dukbokie is hard.Garlic chicken wing quite tasty.Not worth a try for the price plus no dessert at all. Disappointed.

  8. Alex
    June 26th, 2011 @ 6:03 pm

    Quite a disspointing trip, the cooked food were cold, and when it runs out, they don’t replenish. (8.30pm) Cook food were mostly tasteless.. and the korean rice cake were too hard.. soup were blend.. and as what others mentioned, the service was bad..
    One try is too much.

    Overall rating is 2/10, will not go again.

  9. Joe
    September 14th, 2011 @ 9:38 am

    This is by far the lousiest buffet i ever went in my 30yrs of living. The food choices are limited. Cooke food are cold and blend… And worse… The onky seafood is prawn… Which they refill every 30mins… Bad experience and worse food ever.. Dun waste time n money here…

  10. El
    December 23rd, 2011 @ 3:14 pm

    The food at this place was lousy. Very limited selection, and like the others before me said, the food was cold.

    By the way, we made a mistake of ordering Tiger Beer there, and they charged us $30 per bottle. PER BOTTLE! Yes, you read that right.

    I will never visit this restaurant again.

  11. Amy
    February 5th, 2012 @ 11:37 am

    Have made a reservation to dine this evening there. After reading your comments, were thinking to cancel… :(

  12. Clarissa Wong
    April 23rd, 2012 @ 1:21 am

    I ate at Blue Garden bbq restaurant last week.
    It does not use charcoal Bbq unlike Ju Shin Jung restaurant.
    The service is very good (Filipina girl attended to me) and the bbq meats are so tasty! I love the chicken wings
    (it’s something like 4 fingers at Ion)
    If you guys have ever eaten at Ju Shin Jung (East Coast )
    and (West Coast) branch, you will feel this place has more variety of meats .
    However, I do agree there is limited variety of cooked food and you have to pay for your own soft drinks.

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