Monday, October 23, 2017

Hai Tian Lao 海天撈自助火锅 - Yes! It's 天, not 底 steamboat buffet restaurant

Singapore have Hai Di Lao 海底捞, and now across the custom in Johor Bahru they have 海天捞. Yes! 海天捞, but is it the same in terms their service, quality and variety of food?
SGfoodfeed meat beef ice cream juice lamb pork chicken BBQ barbecue stingray prawn
20 minutes drive from custom, about 50 RM per pax, you could choose your choice of soup and free flow of all the food offers, what's different here is they offer barbeque items like Sotong, Lala clam, prawn and even Stingray! They have fried Chicken Wing and Man Tou ready to eat too! Last but not least, they do provide fruits and Ice cream!
You could purchase canned drinks from them but they do have other drinks for you included with the buffet, even real watermelon juice!
SGfoodfeed meat beef ice cream juice lamb pork chicken BBQ barbecue stingray prawn
So for a start, you get to choose between 6 type of soups - Big Bone, Sichuan Mala, Mushroom, Thai Tom Yum, Taiwanese Mala and Tomato Soup. We chose Tom Yum and Tomato soup.
SGfoodfeed meat beef ice cream juice lamb pork chicken BBQ barbecue stingray prawn
For those who have visited 海底捞, does this pot looks very similar? The soup is nice by itself, but not as tasteful as Hai Di Lao, but it was comparable with any other steamboat of the same price range, good amount of spices in each soup.
SGfoodfeed meat beef ice cream juice lamb pork chicken BBQ barbecue stingray prawn
Even before we go and collect the items to cook, the Barbeque item came presented to us, first was the prawns, they were really fresh and easy to peel off the shell, I was expecting just prawns with simple sambal sauce but they used ladies finger and onions with sambal sauce to mix them up. Do not worry about getting your hands dirty, there were basin for you to wash your hands after you deshelled the prawns.
SGfoodfeed meat beef ice cream juice lamb pork chicken BBQ barbecue stingray prawn
Next was stingray, they used normal chili sauce to cook this, the stingray they gave was really fleshly! It won't lose out to any barbeque shop outside.
SGfoodfeed meat beef ice cream juice lamb pork chicken BBQ barbecue stingray prawn
Lots of variety of vegetables offered for you, they all were stocked up quite fast when they were empty.
SGfoodfeed meat beef ice cream juice lamb pork chicken BBQ barbecue stingray prawn
They have beef, pork, chicken and lamb, all not marinated in a chiller. Sadly when we were there at 9PM+ they already out of stock for beef, but I managed to grab hold of a plate of beef!
SGfoodfeed meat beef ice cream juice lamb pork chicken BBQ barbecue stingray prawn
Other ingredients at another chiller - hotdogs, meatballs, crabstick, luncheon meats and fishcakes.
SGfoodfeed meat beef ice cream juice lamb pork chicken BBQ barbecue stingray prawn
Overall, I would not compare this to Hai Di Lao as they were of different standard, if compared to any other steamboat buffet restaurant at this price range, they were on a much higher standard in terms of the quality and variety of items. 
SGfoodfeed meat beef ice cream juice lamb pork chicken BBQ barbecue stingray prawn
Total for the price of $198.85 for 4 pax. It was quite value for money. Do visit them if you are looking for some Steamboat buffet but please do visit them early to avoid disappointment of any out of stock item.

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