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I've mentioned before about the new shops in Puchong Jaya. A few days back I managed to try out another one of those new restaurants. This time it was a restaurant dealing with Chinese style (as in from China) steamboat which is not the same as the Malaysian Pulau Ketam variety which means you don't get a tonne of fish ball and fish ball varients. This place is a little like those shabu-shabu restaurants in the sense that they serve thinly sliced meat. Their soup bases are also a little different from the Malaysian version. Another interesting thing about them is that they are run by real Chinese people from China. It's obvious from the way they look and talk.


They have sets for a different number of people and we had the set for 4 pax whici costs RM59 and consists of 4 types of vegetables, 2 types of meat (you can choose which types you want), fish, taufu, prawns, golden needle mushrooms and some rice vermicelli (bee hoon). Compared with the Pulau Ketam variety there are less choices but the portions are actually quite sufficient.

The steamboat comes in a variety of soup bases. They have 3 types available which are plain, spicy and porridge. You can choose a maximum of 2 soup bases because that's the most that their steamboat pots will support. We had the spicy (ma-la-tang) and the plain (ching-tang) soup. Each soup choice is an additional charge. The 2 soup choices we had cost us RM4 each (not included in the set price).


Up till here you may be wondering why I titled this post Crazy Spicy Beijing Style Steamboat. The Beijing Style part has already been explained so now we move on to the Crazy Spicy part. Look at the next picture and tell me you don't think it's crazy spicy. That's a picture of the actual soup base scooped from the hot pot.


Did you see the amount of chilli flakes and chilli oil in that thing? I had it for my first round and didn't dare to touch it anymore after that. This is how people in China get over their cold winters... in Malaysia where everyday is summer eating this is plain suicide!