So I came across this article on FB quite some time back and always wanted to go try out the House of Steamboat (especially their mala soup)! I could not bring John there to try it out because he HATES mala, actually he just does not dare to try it. [emoji]
And I finally came here with Jo!
Well okay i would say that it was okay only???? We walked quite a bit before managing to find the place, but then again that whole street had many steamboat and bbq restaurants so we were like busy looking at the signboards to see if we missed it. But end up it was at another street instead LOL.
Okay so like when we reached the place, we were quite shocked????? Because like the shop was empty and only had a staff sitting at the window table and chopping chili, and we were both kind of shocked????? Jo literally gave me the "Are you sure this is the place?" face hahahahaha. So anyway, that staff came out and invited us in and honestly the moment you stepped into the shop, a weird smell hit us right in the face and we were abit like ermmm..... But then I thought maybe it's because there were no customers, no steamboats/bbq going on, thus there wasn't any nice yummy smell.
We were told to choose 2 soups from 6 different kind of soups,
- Chicken Herbal Soup
- Fish Bone Herbal Soup
- MaLa Spicy Soup
- Tom Yam Soup
- Hot & Spicy Soup
- Pork Belly Soup
And we decided on Chicken Herbal Soup and Tom Yam Soup. Initially we wanted to try out their Mala, but then because Jo had a sore throat and didn't dare to take the risk thus giving up on our Mala. After which, we were asked what kind of meats (Chicken, Pork, Beef, Mutton), seafoods (Crab, Prawn, Dory Fish, Sea Cucumber etc) and those body parts like liver, intestines etc, we wanted. And we ordered chicken, pork, crab, prawn, dory fish, and sea cucumber. So basically these were the foods that they will take from the kitchen and serve it to us instead of us taking it on our own. Well we thought it was better if like we were able to take on our own like the meats, seafood all those instead of like them serving us.
There were also other food like hot dogs, luncheon meat, crab meat, seaweed, fish ball with meat inside (my loveeeee), variety of vegetables and noodles that we were allowed to actually take on our own.
They do have drinks as well! You can choose to buy canned drinks from them at a top up at $1.50, or if you just want to make full use of the buffet price, they sure do also provide free flow of drinks (Orange juice, Lemon Tea).
Overall, we both agreed that the meat, seafood all those weren't really good. But the fish was not bad, only if your soup has a strong taste like for us tomyam. (P.s: The chicken herbal soup wasn't really that good. You can't taste anything. But the tomyam was not bad!!) We had more of the other ingredients instead of the meat hahaha!
When we were done with our food and asked for our bill, we were quite surprised when they told us $30. Well that was because they have a lunch deal of $15 NETT, 1 - 4pm.
And it's amazing how they don't charge GST and Service Charge, and what's better is the price of an adult is $17.90 nett anytime from Monday to Sunday, 12pm-12am!!!!
It's pretty worth our $15 overall. ;)
House of Steamboat
7 Tan Quee Lan Street Singapore 188096
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