thai-style bbq/steamboat

it’s friday!
went to meet dearest at his school because he said he’ll be bringing me out for dinner with alfred and nicholas before i go for my long-awaited driving lesson.

guess where we went for dinner?
golden mile complex! little thailand…
and we had thai style bbq cum steamboat! yummy…

the shop is really small, called “new udon thai food”. but it gets pretty crowded. everyone’s there for their bbq though they do serve other cooked food (i think… cos we saw them serve grilled sotong).

this is what we ordered. basically you just say “1 set” and they will bring this out. for normal eaters, i’ll say this is sufficient for 3 pax. if there are girls who are relatively smaller eaters, 1 set is good for 4 pax.

the bbq/steamboat cooks using charcoal and the charcoal is placed underneath the ’sphere-like’ thing.

the pale pinkest stuff is fatty pork belly, which you bbq to create oil to cook the other food.

cooking in process – with all the meaty stuff place on the sphere to be bbq-ed. around the sphere is the soup base for steamboat.

finally, with all the other ingredients cooking in the soup

how? interesting? it was quite an eye opener for me. mind you, if you are like real hungry, don’t think of having this to fill your stomach. not because the food is not enough, but it takes a really long time to cook the food, especially at the beginning. i’m not complaining because it’s quite fun to see the guys turn the meat around and prevent it from falling off the sphere. but i have to warn you because if you are the impatient sort, this is not for you.

because the meat is bbq-ed using charcoal, it has this very fragrant taste to it. while each type of meat tastes differently in texture, they all remind us of bbq sliced pork (肉干). my favorite is the pork liver – it tastes quite special!

the soup and other ingredients are nice too though they also take a fairly long time to cook. and strangely, even the rice is nice! usually we take rice for granted and won’t comment on it (unless it’s really bad), right? but both dearest and i said that we enjoy the rice.

and what’s the best thing? it’s cheap!

vege, meat, seafood, egg, tang hoon, golden mushroom, fishballs, etc etc, enough to feed 3 to 4 pax, for…… S$34! plus 1 bottle of heineken and 2 cans of soft drinks. and 3 rice. total bill came up to S$44. so each of us paid only S$11. cheap right…

sheena, during the dinner we kept saying we think you and js will love it… we’ll bring you there soon!