Mala Hot Pot (The Kitchen Star Vista)

The Kitchen is one of my favourite food court as I love the large spacious sitting and huge glass panels that allowed me to gaze out at the greenery outside.

Mala Xiang Guo was one of the later added stalls right opposite the Yong Tau Foo stall and well I was attracted by the large variety of options available, half spurred by curiousity.

So i picked up a metal bowl and started to pick the ingredients which comprises of vegetables, root vegetables, meat, some fishball/meat ball kinda processed seafood and bean curd skins in which some varieties are not commonly seen in Singapore's wet market. After picking i passed the entire metal bowl to the lady and she measured each categories of ingredients separately while using a calculator to add on the cost. The meat is most expensive i suppose and told me a lump sum of about $15 for a bowl of ingredients... She asked how spicy i wanted and of course i asked for the lowest of the lowest. I paid and as I looked at the bill i realised that there is a POT BASE charge of $2.50 on top of the open price ingredients that i picked.

After about 5 mins i picked up my bowl of delight, nicely cooked ingredients cut to a good mouthful size mixed up in a bowl of spicy, sneezy mala base with a good dose of peanuts. The mala was spicy and numbing yet savoury and good to go with a bowl of plain rice.

Love the taste of the mala and it made me sweat and leak from the nose. Well I must not say its pricey yet its worth every cent... All the ingredients tasted yummy and well the experience is something I will return for more...