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Bascially the whole concept of dining here will requires one to DIY (do it your self). It does not really matter if you choose to have teppanyaki or steamboat, one still have to cook them before he gets to savour the food. A pretty interesting concept, i could say.
The varieties of food was not really as much as i have expected. It consists of the varieties of meat such as beef, pork, chicken, prawns; varieties of yong tau fu such as crab stick, tau kwa, dumplings ; varieties of vegetables such as dou miao.
Of course, if one is really hungry and cannot wait till the food is cooked. They also served ready made sushi. Of course the varieties of sushi is not alot, but taste reasonably ok. Particularly liked their colourful maki, which tasted not too bad.
They also have quite a few varieties of sauce and drinks. Beside soft drinks, they also served green tea which i find it quite rare in buffet restuarant. Perhaps due to the fact that this is a japanese restuarant, thats why they serve green tea here.
Oh not forgetting, this restuarant also served DIY ice cream. Since its DIY, one will have to 'cook' them before he can eat the ice cream. The ice cream flavours varieites include the good old favorites like chocolate and valina, as well as some fruitty flavours like the passionfruit, durian, yam, green tea and raspberry.
Basically one will get the ice cream mixture stored in the freezer and pour them on to the cold pan. Once the mixture get solidify, one can start to stir and 'fry' them. One can also add in ingredients such as peanuts, chocolate chip, chocolate bits and biscuit stick to make your special flavoured ice cream.
Pretty interesting concept to be able to 'fry' ice cream. However, feel that the taste of the ice cream is not really to my liking. Tried the raspberry flavour, but find that its taste seems abit too empowering.
Overall, the dining experience was pretty good. Staffs were very friendly and they would always keep a look out to see if any customers will need their help. Food were replenished quite frequently to ensure customers will get fresh food at all times.
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27 Oct 2009 at 8:29 pm
Whenever we tried steamboat, it was almost in buffet style all the time. But this time round, this steamboat is actually a one time affair. One will not be able to have second round of it. :P
This steamboat portion wasn't really that big and the served ingredients wasn't too interesting either, one can find the usual fare like chicken slices, fish slices, calarmaris, prawns, mushrooms and tang hoon. No rice was served with this steamboat. However, one can request for a bowl of rice for less than a dollar.
I was pretty amazed by the flavour of their tom yam soup, it tasted simply great. The sourish and spicy taste of the soup is neither too empowering in either side and tasted just right. Good and its really not as spicy as it looks. To better suit each individual taste, they even catered a bowl of spices (consists of lemon grass, chillis, etc) for its customers, so that one can add them into their soup to create the perfect taste for themselves. Thumbs up!
Service wise, personally i feel that they are quite good. Not only are they aware of their customers's needs- constantly clearing the finished plates to ensure sufficient table space for its customers and constantly refilling water for their customers. They are also willing to fufill their customer's needs. Take for example, when we asked for a change of the ingredients in the steamboat, they immediately swopped it for us without asking us why.
For now, they are having some promotion with the credit cards, if one spent over 30 bucks, you can get a plate of toufu square free. Personnally, i simply loved the texture of their toufu square - a crispy layer with silky soft hot inner toufu. Together with the sweet sour sauce, it simply tasted marvellous. Try them out.
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This time round, we decided to try their donburi and some side dishes. Chicken shiogayaki don is what we have ordered. Although we have no idea what shiogayaki means, we still order them due to the pretty picture. ha. This dish turned out to be not too bad. It may seems rather similar as the teryaki chicken don but i believe the sauce that was used was different.
Some side orders that we have includes the fried toufu, the softshell crab temaki, the potato koroke, okonomiyaki, etc. We wanted to try the hotate but they do not have them on that day. I believe the side orders tasted best when they are pipping hot. This is exactly how they appears to be when they are served before us. Hot pipping hot toufu with a light and thin crust taste amazing nice. Not forgetting the softshell crab that tasted so crispy and tasty together with the japanese mayo.
Of course, how can we give the chawanmushi a miss? The three different types of chawanmushi includes the kani, sakae and udon. We decided to give kani a try and we were told to wait for half an hour before it will be served. Well, i guess the waiting time is worth with the chawanmushi arrived pipping hot and the soup filled with kani smell and taste. Of course, the smooth and soft egg makes the whole dish even more tasty.
Overall, we have a pretty nice dining experience. Although the queue was pretty long that day, we still find them worth while. Staffs were pretty friendly and are pretty attentive in serving all their customers. I remember that one of the staffs even told me that my chawanmushi will arrive in 5 mins time. ;)
Oh, not forgetting that they are having some promotion that if you spend more than 20 bucks, one is entitled a free california temaki. I got them and they tasted just as nice. Probably you can try them too.
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Im really not a steamboat fans, but since my friend wants to try them out, i decided to just go along. There are 2 different prices on their ala - carte buffet, if one is going to visit them during weekends, it will cost about 24 bucks, however if one visits them on a weekdays, this buffet price will drops to less than 20 bucks.
Almost every thing that you can find in the menu is considered free flow. Just one thing that is not, will be the drinks. Oh well, just how can one have steam boad without drinks? Haha, so in the end, we have to order some plain water (not mineral water) which is chargeable at 50 cents each.
Some of their items for steam boat were found in the bar, and i certainly do not think that their varieties is alot. They categorise them into two sections - vegetables and meat. For the vegetables section, they have cabbage, yam slices, corn, tomato, etc. As for the meat section, they have hotdogs, fish slices, vegetable balls, prawn balls, tofu, sotong balls, fish balls, crab balls, etc. For a moment, i nearly thought that there were no prawns, beef and mushrooms available. Then did i realize that one will have to specially order for them. Not to worry, they are free flow as well. :)
I pretty like the various types of 'balls' found in the steam boat, each were of a significant size and looks really appetizing when cooked. However, i was pretty disappointed with their mushrooms, as it looked as if they were not washed properly. In the end, we decided to give them a miss.
As for their cooked food varieties, i was certainly impressed. One can find chicken, fish, seafood for their meat section. Not forgetting about tofu and vegetables that were available too. All these cooked food were free flow too. Given the enormous amount of food, its really difficult to taste them all completely. :P
Few of my favorite cooked food, includes the siken toufu, the tahu telor and the handmade meat balls. The siken toufu is super crispy on the outside and super soft in the inside. A marvellous combination and together with some sauce, one will be able to taste the spicy hot (super nice) toufu. Its so nice that i have 3 offerings of that.
The next nice dish have to be the tahu telor. I believe the main ingredient of tahu telor has to be its peanut sauce. And the sauce found here has just the right stickiness and sweetness. One will not feel them over empowering or too nutty.
The handmade meat balls were drizzle slightly with some sauce and this should be considered one of the lightly taste dish. So much so that one of my friend acutally tell me that this dish is tasteless. But, i feel that this dish has a very fragrant smell and the slightly crispy crust gave the meat balls a very delicious taste.
Dessert wise, one cannot forget the chocolate fondue. Although the real fondue may seems very different from the picture shown, it tasted reasonably ok. I pretty like that fact that it uses dark chocolate and together with the sweet marshmellows, bananas and strawberry, it gives one a pretty bitter yet sweet feelings.
Overall, its a pretty decent place to get lots of food. Although not every food can suit alls taste, i believe one should be able to find some to their liking with their varieites of food. Their service was pretty ok and given that is our first time partonizing this shop, they offered to give us some explanation before we start our buffet.
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Well, interestingly theres actually two Crystal Jade restuarant in the Jurong Point shopping centre alone. Of course, to differentiate between the two outlets, they were selling generally very different food. Take for example, the Crystal Jade Kitchen has porridge while the other does not sell these.
Speaking about porridge, this is also one of my most favorite item in this store. There are about 20 varieites of porridege available there, it includes the abalone porridge, scallop porridge, fish porridge, chicken porridge, duck porridge, etc. The one that i liked best will definitely have to be the chicken congee.
Firstly, the congee is very smooth, so smooth that one can feed them easily in to their mouth. Not forgetting about little children who can have them easily too. Secondly, the chicken which was cooked together with the congee is yummy and tasty. Not forgetting the the chicken has a nice smooth texture. Yes, i believe such texture is not easy to attain them. Last but not least, the added 'you tiao' is super crispy and when it is soaked in the congee, it forms a marvellous combination.
Other specialty in this store includes the 'shao la', which means the roasted chicken, duck, char siew, etc. Order a soya chicken noodles in soup based, which i find them rather so-so. Probably, i not very usd to eating noodle in soup version, thus find them rather werid. But, this has not affect the springing texture noodles and the roasted juicy meat. One is given a choice to have them in soup or dry kind. Of course, i think i still prefer the dry version. :)
Another specialty of this store is that they offer soups. Yes, those nicely boilded soup with various ingredients in them. I ordered the beancurb thick soup with seafood and it tasted pretty good. Given the name thick, one will not find those diluted soup and definitely not those gluey type of soup. Its thickenss, i can say its just right, and every mouth ful of them will bound to be filled with some beancurds.
Overall, the food here were pretty reasonable and tasted good. Service wise was not too bad, as their staffs seems to be pretty attentively in filling up water and attend to customer needs. Indeed, i have a happy dining experience there.
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29 Jun 2008 at 1:56 pm
the beancurd soup has lots of starch in it :p
29 Jun 2008 at 8:53 pm