Chicken Hotpot (West Gate (jurong East))

Quite an interesting concept of a claypot steamboat with a thick gravy like soup that is well spiced and full of flavor.

We stumbled upon this restaurant while exploring the higher levels of this brand new shopping mall and well the aroma of braised claypot chicken lured us in. The restaurant is of a good size and seating aplenty however the staffs were pretty adamant about not allowing you to occupy a larger seat and we kinda ended up with a tight dining table with butter finger me almost topple my drink and dropping stuffs on the floor.

We ordered a Chicken Hotpot which arrived in a claypot, smaller then what we expected but smelt amazingly yummy. When asked for spiciness, we opted for the minimal which is pretty acceptable to us. We suspected they added MALA (Chinese numbing chilli) to the soup and turned our taste-buds on.

There were plenty of chicken pieces in the claypot coupled with some veg and as we removed the chicken to avoid cooking it, the staff offered to top up with some soup and they did... We were then asked to pick some veg and other steamboat ingredients from the fridge nearby which we did and to be dunk into the now clearer soup to cook.

The meal was satisfying, while the chicken hotpot plus later steamboat was pretty fun and a fresh experience for us, however our clothes do stank a little as we exited.

The medium sized claypot chicken cost us $21.80, while the white plates we took from the fridge $2:80 and black plates $3:80. And there was this snack that was given to us when we first got settled in, which we didn't order and didn't eat that cost us $2:00...

Don't enjoy the snack and the idea behind it.. I mean if you wanna give it without consent, then give it for free... Why Charge somebody for something they didn't ask for... Next time i'm gonna make a big deal out of this *pissed*