Food from YeinJee

This is one of the best steamboats that I have ever had.

Zi Wei Yuan charcoal steamboat (紫薇园鱼头火炭炉)

My sister brought us to this steamboat restaurant at Jalan Raja Uda while we paid her a visit in Butterworth last weekend (Mar 22, 2008). This is one of her favourite dining places… and it turned out to be an excellent recommendation.

The steamboat was heated with charcoal instead of using the common gas stove, and the soup was special as well… (we ordered a set) with fried fish and taro cubes as the base. It tasted a bit sour along with the sweetness of the ingredients, which gave a very well mixed taste and flavour.

The restaurant offered decent options for their menu, mostly seafood, from cheap fishball dishes to expensive sea cucumbers and abalones etc… reasonably priced.

Address: 6525, Jalan Raja Uda, 12300 Butterworth (location map); Tel: 04-331 2736 or 012-452 4741 (closed on Wednesday).

Dined at Farmland Steamboat Restaurant （田园）at Bandar Puchong Puteri on Mar 15 (2008) with some relatives from Ipoh.

Farmland is famous for its porridge based steamboat. It’s becoming a habit to bring relatives from other places to dine at these porridge steamboat restaurants, as these dining style is not really common outside of Klang Valley.

Farmland Steamboat Restaurant at Bandar Puchong Puteri, Selangor

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Dined at Eastern Delight (东丰) at Sri Petaling on Saturday night (Mar 1, 2008), sort of a farewell dinner for my aunt who was going back to Australia on Sunday.

Eastern Delight is famous for its porridge based steamboat. This Sri Petaling branch should be their first outlet; they also have branches at Kota Damansara and Sunway if not mistaken. Chose to dine here because my aunt had never tried porridge steamboat prior to this visit.

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Dined at Ho Ho Steamboat Restaurant (好好海鲜火锅) in Sri Petaling on Nov 8, 2007. The restaurant was packed with customers, which was a good sign about their food quality.

The standard set for 6 adults; and the boiling steamboat

We ordered the standard set for 6 and some side dishes; would have ordered more but their menu choices were quite limited.

The food turned out to be just ok. Their seafood was not as fresh as anticipated despite branding themselves for Ketam seafood, and their fish balls weren’t the best that I’ve tasted.

They did offer something special with their fried taro cube and bean curd, but special doesn’t necessary mean tasty.

The bill was around RM110 - reasonable. To be fair their steamboat is not really bad, but I know better places for steamboat… it was my first visit to Ho Ho, probably the last as well.

I am quite impressed by their website though (with location maps and reservation number); there are not many restaurants in Malaysia that have proper websites like theirs.