Saturday, 23 July 2011

The Magic of Chongqing Hotpot @ Tanglin Shopping Centre

This spicy hotpot restaurant under the Indochin umbrella has always been the only place that comes to my mind when I am craving for hotpot. And it still is and I am more than happy to spread this good find

They offer buffet and prices range from approx $25~$35. Weekday lunch buffet is the cheapest and weekend dinner is the priciest. There's also ala carte menu available.

The pic below shows the sauce which compliments the spicy broth as it evens out the spiciness. 
The waitress will gladly mix those shown below together to form the sauce or you can DIY.
Sesame sauce + garlic chilli soya sauce + sesame oil = the sauce

Dinner buffet menu...about 60 ~ 70 different dishes to select from =)

black fungus

Fish Paste ( I can eat 7 plates alone, so please do order!)

How they cook fish paste

Prawns

Water-cress (good for reducing heaty-ness)
I recommend putting all veg in the chicken broth as veg soaks up the soup, so the spicy base may make the veg too spicy and salty.

highly recommended wanton

Bamboo Fungi
Mushroom Stuffed with Chicken Paste
Seafood tofu - recommended to put into the spicy soup base
multiple plates of fish paste!

This restaurant also has the few complimentary dishes below. Every diners are entitled to one piece of each =)

Baby sausage , Salmon, Mock abalone, Xiao long bao, pan-fried dumpling

water chestnut jelly, fried bun with condensed milk, chinese sticky dessert with egg and fine sugar powder

I always goes for the eight-treasure soup as dessert. But you also have 2 other choices like ice cream or syrup fruits.

If you have some excess cash, I recommend their eight-treasure tea too =) it freshens up my mouth and takes away some heaty-ness from the spicy soup.

Overall rating: 7/10
Down side is that the price is a bit steep and we have a few other cheaper options available. But I really enjoy the food here and I hope u will too =)

Add: 19 Tanglin Road, Tanglin Shopping Centre, #04-06
Tel: 6734 8135

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