Prima Tower Revolving Restaurant (百龄麦旋转酒楼)

I have been an avid reader of HGW.com but this is my first posting. I regret not coming here to read the reviews before our visit at Prima. My sibling decided on the place so I just did not object to it.

Our fathers' day lunch at Prima felt like a total rip off! We had 2 tables for 13 adults and 4 kids. The bill was $500 over. That was lunch, not even dinner! We ordered 2 portions of peking duck (ok, this was the expensive item). The peking duck wasn't even up to standard. The duck was chewy, we had to pull it to break off our bite. Besides the duck, we just ordered some dim sum - usual stuff like siew mai, har gao, char siew bao etc... plus a dish of veg (di huang miao).

When the bill come, the shocking part was the plate of stir fry veg cost us $44 each! 2 plates of those were $88. Verified with the manager and confirmed that they didn't charge us wrongly. I think it's just ridiculous. Total rip off! I find it so hard to even give a 0.1 rating for Value. I would give a negative if possible.

Well.. agree that the view is not bad. But the deco is probably the same as 20 yrs ago.

Please don't visit this restaurant!!

I went here for my 21st Birthday, with my parents, 2 months ago. We always wanted to try the revolving restaurant, but never did until now.

We decided to get the set lunch for four - 168 dollars pax (without service and gst). It was one of the most terrible traditional chinese meals we have had. I have eaten much better food at those 2-dollar dimsum places.

First they came out with a weird concoction of eggs and chicken sauce - I can make that at home, if I wanted to. That would not have been so bad, had it not been followed by a bland tofu-spinach soup. Everything served was just way too hot and did not have much of a flavour. The stir-fried vegetabled in ginger had way too much of a strong ginger taste, and I could eat more than 3 bites of it. It was the most disappointing meal I ever had.


The only plus point is the service staff - who were polite, expeditious and attentive. And the novelty of being in a revolving restaurant and seeing the view. That's about it, really. I wish my parents had checked with me before they decided to go to this place for my birthday, and I could have checked the hungrygowhere reviews before we wasted our money on it.

Seriously, what's there to rave about except for the being a part of "lazy susan", revolving round the tower...

Menu of the day:

发财鱼生
Prosperity Yu Sheng: Tasty with fresh fish but the waitress wasn't entertaining enough in "chanting" the nice words meant for CNY

海跃龙腾 - 海鲜鱼翅
Braised Shark’s Fin Soup with Seafood: This is really blend. I'm like a mini chef, performing my own culinary skills with vinegar, pepper and light soya sauce to enhance the flavour of the soup

花开富贵 - 椒盐石斑
Deep-fried Garoupa with Salt & Pepper: Nothing interesting. another blend dish but they did have those "char siew" sauce which you have to dip in.

贺岁填鸭 - 烤北京填鸭
Authentic Barbecued Peking Duck: the crepe tasted nice but the duck skin wasn't very much interesting. i LIKe the way they cook the meat with bean sprouts. iT IS meant to be wrapped in lettuce. tASTED refreshing and not heavy for the meal


四平八稳 - 京烤骨皇（配花卷）
Stewed Pork Ribs (served with buns): Oily and i don't like the strong vinegar smell

龙马精神 - 白灼活虾
Boiled Live Prawns: Pretty much like what you can DIY at home since it's juz plain boiling

鸿运双宝 - 红烧鲍鱼海参
Braised Abalone with Sea Cucumber: tHE DISH itself doesn't look appetizing at all. With the wormy dark sea cucumber swimming in a pool of gravy. abalone wasn't 'strategically' placed and it made the dish looked cheapo

安居乐业 - 腊味荷叶饭
Lotus Leaf Rice with Chinese Sausages: Can't rem the taste of this because by this time, we felt so stuffed. The set meal was really heavy and we are so sicked of anything served right before us. Perhaps planning of the set menu has failed to consider the heaviness of every dish

海洋藏宝 - 海底椰龙眼
Sea Coconut with Longan: Well something sweet to end off but this definitely seem like something you can get from the food court. Expected something better and harder to whip up.

Pretty disappointing as i expected better food with the corporate crowd and price stated. Still, the variety for this set menu is well appreciated

I feel sorry to use such harsh words, but i couldnt find anything better than that!!
the revolving aspect of the restaurant guided us to take a long trip to harbour front... but beyond that it was a disastor.
right from the entrance..one look at the carpet and you know, you are entering a place which deserves a place in history!!(pun intended)
the huge restaurant on a friday eve was almost empty.
the waitress couldnt speak english...
she didnt know what wines are available...
the seniorish looking lady took our food order and couldnt understand any of our requests and gave us a totally wrong selection of dishes.
the kung bao chicken was watery...
the dumplings smelt of raw chicken/ pork (and too chewy the skin)
soup was just ok ok...
peking duck which is supposed to be the speciality.. was worst than a fired chicken in a ordinary food court.
the seafood fried rice , had no taste, no salt and rice was all mashed up...
when I tried to tell the waitress that the rice was no good.. she said you will have to order something else( she meant.. no replacement)
after raising my voice- she agreed...
but what followed after that was disgusting... she got us a fried rice which had all ingredients possible... pork, sausages , (looked as if the chef got so irritated that he put all leftover ingredients in it) and still there was no salt.
we left the entire food in disgust , paid our bill and just walked out.
no apologies, no senior staff/ chef came to see what our problem was...

god save the patrons...

A couple of days ago, we had our company's CNY dinner and BOY! what an experience we had.

Firstly, the revolving restaurant was really a pleasant change from any "normal" restaurant in it's scenic and panoramic view and I am afraid to say thats all!

Secondly, the food and service SUCKS! and this can be quite another experience.

I recall that recently the Prima Group had to undergo a very strict reorganising, blah, blah and I think someone forgot to look into their quality of food and service level!

Another blast from the past! The food's slightly on the expensive side, and I think isn't as refined as what you might otherwise get for the same kinda price range, but the treat really is the fact that the whole place moves!

When you sit at one of the tables besides the window, you can see the table rotate slowly against the windows... and for a shipping boy like me, the bird's eye view of the Pular Brani, Sentosa, the gantry cranes, the ships operated by my former company, all add up to be a rockin' experience!

I was on site for a wedding just a couple of months back. Weddings are wonderful, and this one was no different. The feel is very Chinese, so if you're attracted to the red dynamite pillars, red lanterns, and Cheena marble bar tops with brass fittings and a dark carpety floor, you'd be pretty comfy here.

The key drawing point had to be the 'revolving', which only started much later. No worries, it will not get you dizzy, or make you throw up like the revolving tea cup rides after a heavy meal at Genting... it was so mild we had to watch the marks on the floor to prove to ourselves that yes, we are going on a ride. If you like to go at at a higher velocity, you'd probably choose to sit closer to the window glass on the outside of the revolving disk. After all, the physics geeks will tell you that a larger radius from the point of rotation results in higher velocity, even though the angular velocity is the same... oops.

Plan to not be able to see the cake cutting, yum seng etc etc unless you happen to be related. The restaurant revolves around the stage, so if you're no closer than a cousin, you'd be starting off facing backstage, which is the food prep area. There is a close-circuit TV that is supposed to bring you live footage from the stage ceremony, but ours wasn't working. We tried our best to substitute that with the panoramic view of construction going on over at sentosa.

Food was good, but you can tell by the size of this paragraph that it wasn't the main drawing point =) ENJOY E RIDE!