Xuan Xin Buffet Steamboat

I had dinner at this steamboat restaurant located in Tanjong Tokong last week. If you are coming from town, just head up Jalan Tanjong Tokong until the traffic lights junction near the Malay Kampung and Tari Cafe (don't know if that place is still around) and make a U-turn. Xuan Xin is just a short distance from there on your left. It is a far cry from the other steamboat restaurant we used to frequent downtown.

• The restaurant is CLEAN and most importantly, AIR CONDITIONED. Yeh, no more makeup meltdown!
  
• Whereas we had to bbq the various meats ourselves in the other place, here, there is a tapenyaki corner where we just choose the food we want to bbq, attach a marker to our plate and hand it over to the chef who will do it for us. No more getting our hands burned with oil splatter and our hair and clothes smelling of smoke.
  
• There are 4 varieties of stock to choose from - clear fish soup, spicy prawn soup (thats Hokkien Mee), Tomyam and porridge. A tip - if you want to make your soup sweeter, add some seaweed into it. There are plenty available in the buffet.
  
• There are other stuff that we can order as sidelines like quail eggs, fresh oyster, scallop, abalone, some kind of spiced minced meat (really yummy). Guess these are the more expensive variety, therefore not included in the buffet.
  
• There is a small section in the buffet with already cooked food like fried rice/koay teow, hashbrowns, chicken wings, chicken feet, fried man tou, in case patrons are too hungry to wait for their food to cook.
  
• Steamboat ingredients are really fresh. The prawns are so sweet! Have to thank Hamster for peeling them for us ;)
  
• Free flow of drinks - orange juice, black currant and green tea.
  
• 3 varieties of dessert - ice cream (3 flavors with crushed nuts for topping), jelly and foo chuk (don't know what they call that in English)
  
• Their compound is quite small but they have car jockey service for us, so parking is not much of a problem.
  
• If like me, you have a MyBonusWin card, you get a 5% discount.
  

So folks, if you want to have a nice, comfortable steamboat dinner, minus the sweat and smelly clothes/hair at the end of it, give this place a try.


The price: RM21.90 ++ per head (I think)