Three years ago, I was in Malacca and I heard about this Satay Celup. I had wanted to try it but I read about them reusing the pot gravy - that is for the whole night, they will just replenish the gravy instead of changing a new pot for the new customers. Oh man, my friend backed out on this food trail and till now, I have not tried this yet.
Sometime back this year, my friend, Cutie Wc whatsapp-ed me a picture showing "Malaysian Local Delights" with many satay sticks. I thought she went Malaysia for a food trail but to my surprise, she was having loklok in Singapore!!! But I wasn't in the mood for food back then and this shop slowly faded away. until recently, I decided to find some unique food to bring cuzzie around and this shop suddenly reappeared and off we went. Pretty excited for the both of us as it is something different from the usual steamboat that we have.
When we reached around 1pm for lunch on a Friday, to my horror, there was no one in the shop eating the steamboat. We were quite upset that we travelled all the way just to find it closed. So I decided to ask about the opening hours for dinner such that we can come back later. Pretty surprised that the person at the counter says the steamboat buffet is on and led us to a table. We were the ONLY customers in the shop. As cool as it could be, it was quite boring as food is supposedly to be shared by many people. But well, it was a Friday afternoon and people had to work, unlike us.
So apparently, there are two prices - S$24.80 for Monday-Thursday and S$26.80 for Friday-Sunday. The person explained that there is a 10% discount at this timing as the food range is limited. Well, there are more choices for dinner crowd, I guess.
For around $24 per pax, I won't say it is cheap but the idea is refreshing enough for us to go try it! We were counting that if 1 stick of food is worth 50 cents, we would have to eat at least 50 sticks to make the money worth. By the way, the price includes free-flow drinks.
For the sauce, we chose the satay sauce and the penang prawn soup base. The Penang Prawn soup is slightly spicy and the satay sauce tasted great.
The food are all placed in the fridge and you can just take them from it. It is slightly different from the normal buffet places where the food are placed in open air. But it was tiring to open the door just to grab some food. I guess you can take a lot at one good - helps to save the environment.
I did not take many photos of the food, was busy eating instead of snapping. Here are some of the food I took - Pork Slice, Small intestine, Meat balls etc. There are also beef, vegetables and those yong tau food ingredients. By the way, the boss told us to cook the raw food using the soup base instead of the satay sauce. This is because the satay sauce is only lukewarm and could not really cook the food. Thus, we put the food into the penang prawn soup base, cooked them and dipped them into the satay sauce.
Okay, have you tried Prawns in Satay sauce before? This is cool. Nice innovation to cook the prawns. And the prawns are fresh and we can easily peel off the shell. Not much of a hassle to eat prawns. But I guess we can first cooked the prawns, shell it before dipping into the satay sauce. In this way, our hands will not have satay sauce. I loved the prawns and I had quite a couple of them.
Here's some of the other food I ate. My cuzzie was saying that they all looked the same once we dipped them into the satay sauce. I was wondering why I did not try the original flavour before dipping them into satay sauce.
Here's my achievement at the end of the feast - 63 sticks of food. VERY FULL!
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| The soup base |
The food are all placed in the fridge and you can just take them from it. It is slightly different from the normal buffet places where the food are placed in open air. But it was tiring to open the door just to grab some food. I guess you can take a lot at one good - helps to save the environment.
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| Raw Food in the Fridge |
I did not take many photos of the food, was busy eating instead of snapping. Here are some of the food I took - Pork Slice, Small intestine, Meat balls etc. There are also beef, vegetables and those yong tau food ingredients. By the way, the boss told us to cook the raw food using the soup base instead of the satay sauce. This is because the satay sauce is only lukewarm and could not really cook the food. Thus, we put the food into the penang prawn soup base, cooked them and dipped them into the satay sauce.
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| The Raw Food |
Okay, have you tried Prawns in Satay sauce before? This is cool. Nice innovation to cook the prawns. And the prawns are fresh and we can easily peel off the shell. Not much of a hassle to eat prawns. But I guess we can first cooked the prawns, shell it before dipping into the satay sauce. In this way, our hands will not have satay sauce. I loved the prawns and I had quite a couple of them.
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| Prawns |
Here's some of the other food I ate. My cuzzie was saying that they all looked the same once we dipped them into the satay sauce. I was wondering why I did not try the original flavour before dipping them into satay sauce.
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| Some other cooked food |
Here's my achievement at the end of the feast - 63 sticks of food. VERY FULL!
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| My achievements |
For the innovative idea of satay steamboat, I definitely recommend this place. But would I come again? Maybe not in near future!
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