XIAO LONG BAO BUFFET! :D haha sorry to all my other posts but they'll just have to wait. i have to post this first. like seriously. whee! look at that! we ordered a total of 17 baskets = 85 xiao long baos altogether for 11 people. i've never eaten so many xlbs in my whole life haha. it was awesomeeee! and we were like a bunch of ravishing lunatics grabbing and gobbling our food :P must be the after-exam syndrome. yup i just went there right on the last day of my exams and the day summer started (: whee! if i could i would be doing backflips around my house haha :D :D :D
this was before we started eating. look how civilized we were then (: haha. anyway, i realised i didn't really explain what this whole thing is about. it's a Steamboat Xiao Long Bao buffet at Crystal Jade (Holland Village). i can't remember what the exact price was, but i think i paid about $27 after GST & service charge. and it was really yummy! (: as you can see from the first picture, an unlimited supply of xiao long baos....
...a complimentary serving of 100g of tiger prawns per guest. not that i ate it, cos firstly i couldnt wait for it to be cooked, and secondly i was too lazy to peel it :P okay yes, bottom line is that im a lazy pig. anyway, my friends who ate it said it was good! (:
instead i chose to eat my favourite MEATS which were beautiful thin slices pork and beef, which cooked really fast and were wonderfully fresh and yummy. they were full of fats though, but that was what made them so yummy i guess? anyway the xlbs are supposed to be full of fat already, so a little more wouldn't hurt? :P first day of summer is for INDULGENCE. now is time to start thinking about exercise, yes? ;)
other stuff we had were a whole lot of mushrooms, different kinds of balls (like fishballs and salmon balls - loved the salmon balls!), dumplings (the guo tie kind, not xlb), and just lots and lots of meat xD i really loved it! apparently the chicken is not so good though. so we didn't order it. there are also the intestines and pig skin kind of stuff which we didn't really order. we also tried a couple of the appetizers - the cucumber with garlic tasted like something you would have with chicken rice, and we also had the preserved egg with japanese tofu which i thought was not bad!
the XLBs were absolutely yummy of course (: beautifully folded with a delectable broth inside. and because the sauce was self-service and came in bowls, i had an awesome amount of vinegar to dip my XLB in. i practically drowned it in vinegar :P and i discovered that meats and lots of other stuff go really well with peanut sauce! i would have never imagined. but knowing how i love peanut butter soooo much (yes i do!) i can't believe i discovered this sauce only now :O
the desserts were really awfully disappointing though! O.O it's really quite sad when desserts are bad cos its always nice to end of the meal on a sweet note! but bad desserts just somehow make the rest of the meal less enjoyable. we tried two kinds of jelly, im not sure what the names are but it's something along the lines of a 'crystal jelly' and 'red bean jelly'. i didn't try the crystal jelly - the looks on my friends' faces after they ate the jelly was enough to deter me. the red bean jelly was not that bad, it tasted like jellyfied potong ice cream. but the 'tauhuay' was really really, erm, weird. it was not tauhuay. more like....tofu? it was just plain. with a thicker texture than tauhuay. it wasn't even the silken tofu kind! more like somewhere in between toufu and taukwa. O.O err? not good.
oops this came a little late. but here's the soup that we had! you have up to two choices - we chose the Pork Bone Soup and something else (which just tasted the same to me haha). initially we wanted the dan dan soup, but apparently its really oily, so keep this in mind if you want to order it? and there are the other spicy soups as well. yum! (: the pictures show the progression from our empty steamboat, to getting filled with meat and veggies, and finally, the remains. haha. don't judge! :P
happy day with my friends! (:
Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao
241 Holland Avenue
Holland Village
Tel.: +65 6463 0968
Mon-Fri: 11am-10.45pm
Sat & Sun: 10.30am-10.45pm
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