Stamford Catering

While food looks good and the self heating is a bonus, was a little disappointed as was our first time ordering from Stamford and it was known to be a renowned caterer. Service staff who delivered our food was extremely friendly and courteous, even helped us to carry the heavy food packs into our house. Support staff also allowed us to change to Pineapple Rice to be the same as their official online menu. Unfortunately, there were good and bad dishes from our order.

Here's a detailed review:

Baked Teriyaki Chicken Chop with Pickles: 3/10 Chicken was not seasoned or marinated, was overcooked and hard. Chicken pieces were too large and not tender.

Salted Egg Fish Fillet: 8/10 Pretty delicious and nice. Good seasoning that coats the well battered fish.

Fragrant Oat Cereal Prawn: 7/10 Pretty decent and convenient to eat as it was de-shelled for us. Though the prawns are little small and the mouth feel wasn't too great though it was acceptable. Kinda felt that there may be a tad too much bicarbonate powder added to the prawns, as I could taste them faintly though not overly excessively.

Sautéed Oriental Black Pepper Sliced Beef: 9/10 star of our order, tasty and flavourful, meat was tender, though portion was a little small. Perhaps as a suggestion, this may be a good flavour for chicken slices or cubes to be cooked in.

Egg Beancurd with Shimeiji Mushroom and Seow Bai Chye: 5/10 Egg Tofu had a rough fried skin texture, not like the smoother ones from some other caterers, the Seow Bai Cai ended a little sour at the end of the buffet

Nai Bai with Superior Broth: 2/10 Serving was excellent, though it was tasteless. No fragrance and not enough saltiness at all. Felt like your backyard garden came to life (just kidding). Definitely needs much much more flavouring, especially when this is paired with the not so flavourful Thai Pineapple Rice, it was pretty bad.

Golden Sotong Ball: 3/10 A little hard and not the bouncy kind. If you compare this to Seawaves Frozen Sotong Balls, the Seawaves ones are probably notches higher.

Traditional Mini English Carrot Cake: 9/10 Pretty enjoyable and good bite size, good taste. Glad that I chose this.

Chilled Almond Beancurd with Longan: 5/10 Taste pretty standard and decent, nothing much to comment on.

Thai Pineapple Rice: 1/10 very disappointed with this, not much taste and rice was pretty plain and bland. I don't event taste the pineapple taste. More like plain white rice with yellow colouring. Perhaps the chef forgot to add seasoning to this or forgot to fry it. I would expect more from a premium caterer like Stamford and would think that they could do better for their mains. Quite disappointed as I just attended an event not too long ago with a buffet lunch catered from another brand specialising in Curry Chicken, their mains (Fried Rice) is so much more tastier that I went back for multiple servings.

I would still love to order from them again for a renewed chance. Hope that things will improve :)

The delivery was on time. All the food are nicely packed with self-heating and cutleries were included. Food taste good.

Delivery is on time. All items are complete and packed nicely, including cutleries and table mat. Food is excellent and the food trays come with self-heating. everyone enjoys the food. Chocolate brownies are so good.

Order was confirmed promptly. Delivery was 15 minutes early, which was appreciated. Complete set of cutleries and even table cloth, trash bag and self-heating boxes provided.

Food portions all good except the Swiss Roll! Super tiny and only 1 pc each - the box looked so miserable. We had to ration this.

I don't think my special requests were taken in, though they weren't crucial. Most dishes were above average, though I felt the foo yong egg was too dry.

Delivery was punctual and food was good. Crispy fish was still crispy even after 1-2 hours. Have ordered from Stamford a few times and they are reliable as always. Thumbs up!

Is very good to come with self heat pack for mini buffet , can heat up the food when the guest arrived .
Food is sufficient , will order again .

Food was great BUT. A little hiccup by Foodline where despite repeated instructions and reminders, the order timing was messed up: Found it unprofessional that instead of taking responsibility as the order was made through Foodline, it attempted to defend itself and pushed it on the caterer instead.

A good company won't do such, nor would ask me to speak to the caterer directly after the payment is made. If this is so, then, I could have just skipped ordering via here and all the hassle of having to speak to 2 different companies for the same order.

I was initially happy with the customer service during enquiry and order, and this after-sale support has completely turned it around.

Guests enjoy the meal very much especially salted egg fish fillet and signature mee goreng. Almond beancurd with longan is refreshing and not too sweet but almond jelly too little. Swiss rolls are 12 mini pieces. Quantity is adequate. Came 20min earlier and delivery staff Alam is polite and helpful. The heating packs are useful and warm food effectively. Cutlery are nicely packed with table cloth, serving spatula etc in a box. Thumbs up and will support Stamford again!

Caterers came on time to set up the buffet as promised- buffet was ready by 5pm for the selected start time of 6pm so that there is time for the foot to warm up. Guests were pretty satisfied with the food! We ordered 25 pax buffet for about 30 people and there were still some leftovers. However, we noted that the naibai didn’t keep very well. Towards end of the 3hr duration, it tasted slightly sour.

Ordered a 20pax mini buffet for baby full month. The amount of food is more than enough for 20pax. Despite having more than 20 guests, I think it would be enough if I had ordered a 15pax set instead. The food came more than 30min before the event which I had ample time to set them up myself.
It's great that there are self heating packs with the trays provided which made setting up and clearing much easier.
The foods are pretty good as well