B1-20 Golden Mile Tower
Beach Road Singapore 199589
Tel : 6298 5891 / 6293 5910
Tonight dinner was yet another recommendation that GF read of the internet forums. Being a steamboat or Huo Guo fan myself, this is definately a place that we got to try. Read up on this to know a bit more about steamboat. It's the sort of comfort food that we would enjoy having in the company of friends and family where everyone cook their own food instead of mum doing it.
Alomost everyone i know has their own version of this Singaporean Chinese comfort food usually served at the Chinese New Year Eve's Dinner where every member of the family gather at the house of the eldest to have a fantastic dinner together.
GF's side does it ala-Marina South Steamboat cum BBQ style which is the 2-in1 type of setup. With a grill round the hot pot where you can enjoy cooking your food in boiling stock or just plain "grill" ( a more appropriate word would be frying ) them in butter. In this case, we can have the best of both world. Have your prawns 2 ways, boiled or grilled. No problem ;)
I on the other hand prefers the style my mums does. We used to have steamboat dinner with the traditional charcoal fired pot. Modern technology have replaced it with the Tefal's. Usually the stock would be made with prawns and pork bones, the meat marinaded by yours truely with oyster sauce, a dash of seasame seed oil, light soy, and a little bit of sugar and pepper . It amazing how the stock start off with no flavour ( or maybe just a little hint of prawns ) into a flavourful pot of soup. And mum will always make Hokkien Mee with the leftover soup. I love dipping my food in a generous amount of freshly minced garic and light soy sauce.
Today we went in search of the famous Thien Kee Steamboat. Searched the whole Golden Mile Complex but didn't managed to find any restuarant remotely similar to a steamboat place. GF was about to give up when we decide to walked over to Golden Mile Tower to take a look.
Damn, the whole place was packed@! And basically the whole B1 is filled with tables serving Steamboat from Thien Kee. Easily 100 tables that night. Basically how it works is, you need to find your own table. After you do so, the staff will look for you shortly to get your order. Being our first time here, we were recommended by the lady who took our order the mixed set since i dun take beef.
We had a SGD$20.00 set which includes cockles ( which i dun eat ), pork, fishballs, pork liver, fish, fish maw, squids, prawns, 2 eggs and vegetables. The food served here are very old school, not exactly sashimi grade freshness but still acceptable. The condiments are on the table and they includes both dark and light soy sauce, some vegeatble oil, and their homemade chilli sauce ( must try if you love your chillies ). Not forgetting 2 bowls of rice, and they serve chicken rice here.
We also had a serving of boiled chicken ( SGD$6.00 ) which is a pretty huge serving. No picture cause we forgotten about it when it came. Nothing fantastic about the chicken here ( in fact it tasted very much like how mum makes it ). But the environment is great! Everyone's digging into their steamboat and boiled chicken and having a great time. I heard they do pretty good satays as well. Simple food, great company and busrting with activities, dining here is basically soaking yourself in a true blue Singaporean experience ( whereas to find local style steamboat, Hainanese boiled chicken, and satays under one roof ).
Dinner here sets us back SGD$32.40 including taxes ( a SGD$20.00 steamboat set, 3 bowls of rice, a serving of Hainese boiled chicken and 2 cans of coke ). Will i come back here again? Definately. But spare me the cockles please.
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