Saturday, January 19, 2008

Ting Yuan Fish Head Hotpot (廷园麻辣鱼头火锅)

Meet a group of frens (SiangWei, Shuxuan, Joseph & DunYong) to go try out the food at this small eatery. This place is quite small which can squeeze in only 10 tables or so both indoors and on the five-footway in Liang Seah Street.
They offers the hotpot/buffet-style Sichuan mala steamboat in three levels of spiciness: mild, medium and full-strength.

We ordered the mild level, cos most of us can't really take spicy food. Our pot is split into two, with one half filled with a milky chicken broth. Their chicken broth is very tasty (actually that depends on wat u put into this broth)
The highest level is two-thirds chilli oil and one-third soup. Only natives from China's Sichuan and Hunan provinces are known to order this.

On the menu are more than 40 items of food that you can order to cook in either the mala or the chicken stock. You pay $16.80 per person, regardless of what you pick. The soups, however, carry an extra $5 charge.

Many of the items are standard steamboat fare such as fish glue, fishball, squid, prawn, chicken and pork fillet, pig liver, wonton and a variety of mushrooms and vegetables. And yes, we ordered their fish head as well - cut into bite-sized pieces, to make our chicken broth taste better. Their fish items are nice, personally like fish glue =P

What makes this hotpot special too is the dipping sauce. I personally find their sesame sauce is very special and it goes well the item u dip in.

See we finished the chicken broth!! =D


As for the price, we spent abt $20+ per person, with drinks (tea is free-flow).
As for their service... i would say it's average. They actually forget our drinks until we remind them again. But overall still ok. 1 thing to note, if u don't wanna spend too much time waiting for your food to come, it's better that u sit downstairs. Their service will be faster than upstairs.

hmm...i recommend that reader who wanna go try out the steamboat shld do a booking to reserve a table.
Their address: 22 Liang Seah Street, Tel: 6338-4755
Opens: 11.30am to 3pm, 5.30 to 10.30pm daily

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

noticed that u very like steamboat/ claypot style..but me too.hehe...