Friday, December 29, 2006

Happy Pay Steamboat

its along 2 Tan Quee Lan Street...



its buffet style, $16.80 per adult. I think the weekend pricing is $19.80. Soup is an additonal $10 per pot. Initially i thot it would come up to be quite expensive but i think effectively its almost Xian De Lai's pricing.

We chose a soup base of Tom Yam and Corn Pork Rib soup....



initially, before the meal, i felt that the Tom Yam soup was quite smelly. But after they started cooking, i didnt smell the smelly smell anymore. I didnt try the tom yam side (dont usually take spicy stuff) but ah yee and ping jie jie said that their tom yam soup base was pretty good.

The meats, prawns, sliced fish and golden mushrooms were to be ordered on paper and delivered to us while the rest of the items were self-service to be collected from a corner.

Ping jie jie took this first plate of items...



the meat we ordered...



the meat is all very very thinly sliced. And because of the colour, we couldnt quite tell which is which. So in the end, i thot the pork was beef and it was really nice. For the other steamboat places, i usually wun eat the pork or chicken coz i think they are usually very tough.

the fish, golden mushroom and prawns..



pig liver, wanton and yam..



of coz they have a number of other items but i failed to take pictures of.

Half way through the meal, we were requested to shift seats to allow two tables to be joined for a bigger group. After the previous bad experience at Tao's, i was actually quite skeptical and uncomfortable about having to change seats. But we changed anyway its only nice to let the bigger group have a seat fast.

But Happy Pay surprised us by offering a complimentary jug of chrysanthemum in appreciation of our change of seats...



i think the staff here handled it much better than the previous Tao's experience.

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