It would have been really lovely had this post been like one of them raving blog reviews about this particular dining spot or that particular cafe.
Unfortunately, by the time this gets posted (in the period of late December) this hotpot place at Tanjong Katong Road is no more, and the unit where they once used to be is now up for rent.
Actually I don't know if they've really closed down, or if they have simply upped and moved. I sincerely hope it is the latter.
Their collagen broth was really nice.
Yes, I know there are other hotpot places where you can have collagen broth- offhand I know of at least two- but... I liked the place, and I liked the atmosphere.
We had discovered this place quite by accident sometime earlier this year through one of the food and lifestyle apps, and although we tried it out because the deal was pretty fantastic back then, we'd come here on this particular day for the hotpot buffet that cost about $50++ two pax.
Not too extravagant a price for a place that served really, really fresh slices of meat all rolled up beautifully on platters that they served straight to your table.
Not too extravagant a price too, for a place that offered a pretty good variety of vegetables for your taking. Besides the usual corn, carrots, lettuce and seaweed, there were several types of mushrooms, there was broccoli and there was some sort of spongy spongy thing which I didn't recognize, and therefore didn't take.
My palate that day favored the lettuce (I love lettuce in soup), the corn (for the sweetness), the carrots (for the colors), the seaweed (that umami umami kind of taste) and the mushrooms (squishy squishy foods can be really fun to eat).
And I went for the cuttlefish balls (a first love), the tofu cheese squares (can never resist them- don't know why), the Fuzhou fishballs (because there's meat inside) and little cocktail sausages (they looked cute).
Of course there was the meat, and as one can well tell, there was lots of it on the table. Between my dining companion and I, we must have ordered four platters of beef, all sliced thinly for easy cooking.
There's great joy in dipping the raw meat into the soup with chopsticks, watching it gradually turn color, then chowing it down with a mixture of sesame sauce, sesame oil and a handful of chopped spring onions, and Chinese parsley.
We finished all four platters.
Quite easily, in fact, and it is a strange thing, but we didn't actually feel overly stuffed as we might have had felt if eating elsewhere. I suppose the quality of meat does make a difference.
Either that, or we must have been pretty hungry that day.
Because after the balls and the veggies and the mushrooms and tofu cheese cubes plus allll the meat, we still had space to wrap up the meal with ice cream- one scoop of chocolate chip, one scoop of bubblegum.
Yep, bubblegum ice cream was mine.
Unfortunately, by the time this gets posted (in the period of late December) this hotpot place at Tanjong Katong Road is no more, and the unit where they once used to be is now up for rent.
Actually I don't know if they've really closed down, or if they have simply upped and moved. I sincerely hope it is the latter.
Their collagen broth was really nice.
Yes, I know there are other hotpot places where you can have collagen broth- offhand I know of at least two- but... I liked the place, and I liked the atmosphere.
We had discovered this place quite by accident sometime earlier this year through one of the food and lifestyle apps, and although we tried it out because the deal was pretty fantastic back then, we'd come here on this particular day for the hotpot buffet that cost about $50++ two pax.
Not too extravagant a price for a place that served really, really fresh slices of meat all rolled up beautifully on platters that they served straight to your table.
Not too extravagant a price too, for a place that offered a pretty good variety of vegetables for your taking. Besides the usual corn, carrots, lettuce and seaweed, there were several types of mushrooms, there was broccoli and there was some sort of spongy spongy thing which I didn't recognize, and therefore didn't take.
My palate that day favored the lettuce (I love lettuce in soup), the corn (for the sweetness), the carrots (for the colors), the seaweed (that umami umami kind of taste) and the mushrooms (squishy squishy foods can be really fun to eat).
And I went for the cuttlefish balls (a first love), the tofu cheese squares (can never resist them- don't know why), the Fuzhou fishballs (because there's meat inside) and little cocktail sausages (they looked cute).
Of course there was the meat, and as one can well tell, there was lots of it on the table. Between my dining companion and I, we must have ordered four platters of beef, all sliced thinly for easy cooking.
There's great joy in dipping the raw meat into the soup with chopsticks, watching it gradually turn color, then chowing it down with a mixture of sesame sauce, sesame oil and a handful of chopped spring onions, and Chinese parsley.
We finished all four platters.
Quite easily, in fact, and it is a strange thing, but we didn't actually feel overly stuffed as we might have had felt if eating elsewhere. I suppose the quality of meat does make a difference.
Either that, or we must have been pretty hungry that day.
Because after the balls and the veggies and the mushrooms and tofu cheese cubes plus allll the meat, we still had space to wrap up the meal with ice cream- one scoop of chocolate chip, one scoop of bubblegum.
Yep, bubblegum ice cream was mine.