: : Garden Seafood Steamboat : :
Okay. Another farewell party for the same VIP as a week ago. Vivien’s bye-bye party on behalf of the entire department. Took awhile to decide where we wanted to go and we finally settled on Garden Seafood Steamboat place where we can be noisy, rowdy and just downright undisciple when it comes to eating and belching. :p Yeah, we’re a pretty disgusting group.
While waiting for the soup in the steamboat to head up, we started with appetizers. Appetizers were roasted prawn seasoned with chillis and pepper. However, we only had one plate as we were all too busy with the crab. Or rather, AMan was.
This was roasted crab, again seasoned with chilli and pepper. As well as a lot of MSG, could feel my neck and head shivering like crazy. As mentioned, AMan was eating crab like nobody’s business and David was giving him a run for his money. They must have polished off ten crabs each! They had so much that they finished all the crab for the night! LOL!
Finally, the lid was opened and the steaming smell of tom yam soup was released. This steamboat joint is a buffet style of restaurant i.e. pick what you would like in the soup and just add it into the pot. Of course, one does have to pay for any wastage so be forewarned.
The steamboat we had uses charcoal for fuel rather than the common gas stove. In olden days, charcoal-fuel-steamboat is very common but not so much these days. Steamboat is actually a Mongolian dish that is absolutely wonderful during cold rainy days (which it was on Friday night) and wintertime.
Instead of tom yam soup, one can ask for chicken stock instead. One great thing about steamboat is that by the time the soup has been boiled for a long time, the soup itself would have so much flavours in it. The downside of steamboat is that one has to ensure that all the food is thoroughly cook else one gets diarrhoa.
For Westerners eating this for the first time, please do not forget your diarrhoa pills. You might be in for a nasty shock if you’ve never eaten this before. It can be quite upsetting to your stomach. Once you’re over that hurdle, you should be fine. 🙂
Address Details
Garden Steamboat Restaurant
No. 28, Jalan Nenas,
93400 Kuching,
Sarawak.
Tel : 082 – 257777, 257962