'Friends birthday celebration', I guess that was the excuse we made to get together and fulfill our gastronomical indulgence in a steamboat restaurant.

Steamboat is popular among East Asian (Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Thai) community. It is cooked with a variety of raw material like vegetables, slices of pork/chicken/fish/cuttlefish/jelly fish, mushrooms, prawns, fish/meat balls, tofu and they are to be simmered in a pot of broth on a table before being served hot.

Historically for Chinese in Malaysia, steamboat treat is usually associated with special occasion for family gathering. In some instance, steamboat is a tradition on the dinner table on the eve of Chinese New Year. Nevertheless, due to high demand and luxurious eating trend, it is also made available at most restaurants or even at food courts nowadays.

If you are in George Town, Penang and wish to experience a typical buffet-styled steamboat, Town Steamboat Restaurant offers a huge variety of selections at reasonable price.

Below picture illustrates some of choices offered. From top left (clockwise), various type of edible balls (fish/meat/squib), corns and leafy green vegetables, crustaceans such as cockle, prawn, mantis shrimp (prawn mantis) and dim sum corner.

Apart from the above choices, the restauranter also serves local hawker stuff such as fried kuey teow and red bean ice (ais kacang) on day-to-day rotation basis. Fresh vegetable salad and ice cream are made available too. Drinks ranging from Chinese tea, juices and water are all self service.

I found the pricing category is rather unique as we are charged based on our built or height to be more precise. I guess the restauranter has done some survey and came to this conclusion of price range.

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