Inner Mongolia Xiao Wei Yang - Hotpot at Phoenix Hotel, Abu Dhabi

Tel: +971 50 151 7228 , +971 50 179 5598

Located: Near Al Wahda Mall, next to Phoenix Plaza Hotel Apartments (Can't miss the big red lanterns!)

Map: FourSquare

Previous review: My blog
Fanpage: Facebook

There's quite an extensive menu - but we always choose the thinly sliced beef (There are different cuts and grades - and prices! to choose from), sometimes we also have the thinly sliced lamb, the tofu and mushrooms are excellent ... and there is a whole range of different vegetables - including Cankong (Translates to spinach or kangkung right?) as you can see!

We always choose the spicy chicken and yin-yang soup hotpot, which is about 78 AED or RM$65. What you get - A yin yang steamboat, with ginseng and herbal white soup on one side, and a very generous serving (4 persons can enjoy!) of well seasoned spicy chicken-in-bone on the other side.

When you have had enough chicken, they put the chicken aside in a dish for you (Or you can simply take-it-away), and the remaining gravy is mixed with more clear soup, and a large dollop of mongolian chilli-paste! Voila - You now have herbal ginseng soup on one side, and spicy chilli-soup on the other side to dip your meats, to-fu and veges in. Yummy!! A meal for the 3 of us cost about 180 AED including a couple of cans of Wong Lo Kat (Herbal drink), or RM$150.

Xiao Wei Yang - Mongolian Hotpot, Abu Dhabi

Tel: +971 50 151 7228 , +971 5 460 6578 , +971 50 179 5598
Located: Near AL Wahda Mall, next to Phoenix Plaza Hotel Apartments
Previous review and directions: We like this restaurant a lot! Good service, delicious food :-)

Excellent ... Chicken wings, and mongolian-stir fried spicy chicken on the bone. And this is only for starters!!


bbG and I had both fatty lamb slices, as well as leaner beef slices ...


We chose the Yin Yang hot-pot combo ... herbal garlic-infused and perhaps ginseng-blended white broth on one side, and a spicy mongolian-paste sauce on the other side. Both are excellent!


Excellent ... possibly the best egg tarts in Abu Dhabi!
Warning! Be ready for a 25 minute wait from time of ordering for these beautieus ...


Wong Lo Kat - How convenient ;-) to have refreshing leong-char in a can!


ps. We had a giggle looking at the co-ho-nes spotted on the menu (Thanks to TS for teaching us about the pronunciation of this part of the anatomy!) ...

Xiao Wei Yang Mongolian hotpot - Phoenix Hotel, Abu Dhabi

Inner Mongolian Xiao Wei Yang Little Lamb Hot Pot Restaurant (What a mouth-full!) was our choice of dinner location last night ;-) E, C and myself ended up paying about 200 AED for the meal, or just under 70 AED (Or RM$55) per head. Reasonable value for a nice restaurant.

Tel: +971 50 151 7228 , +971 5 460 6578 , +971 50 179 5598
Located: Near AL Wahda Mall, next to Phoenix Plaza Hotel Apartments
Directions: Airport Road (From Maqta Bridge, on right side / look out for Phoenix Hotel and the big red lanterns outside)
Map: FourSquare

E is busy contemplating if we should have "specialist" or "spare parts" ie. genitals, kidney etc. Uh ... no, we shall stick to thinly sliced lamb and to-fu!


Ah... refreshing. My first taste of Wong Lo Kat! Thanks C for recommending this place, great meal!

Here's how we enjoyed the meal - We had really delicious grilled chicken wings (the one with the perpendicular bamboo skewers), then the Yin-yang Hot Pot arrived. The white broth was a herbal-soup with garlic and tong-kuai, and on the right there was fu-chuk, bamboo shoots and delicious boned chicken pieces.

When you have nearly finished eating the chicken pieces, you can ask the waiter to add in the spicy-paste and soup, which combines to form a powerful tasty spicy soup. You can of course dilute this with the white soup :-) Dip your choice of meats and veges in the soup (The thinly sliced lamb is delicious!), it cooks quite quickly in under 1 minute and dip it into a combination of soya/chilli/garlic/coriander/oil/oyster-sauce/sesame paste. A hearty and enjoyable meal!

Steamboat with home-made fish paste

Slurrrpp ... nothing like a home-cooked family steamboat :-)

Best of all, the fish-paste for the tau-foo pok and fishballs were hand-made ... Ikan parang or Mackeral Fish or Tenggiri was lovingly and patiently dissected, wow!

ps - Found a really good recipe online, cookingmomster's homemade fish paste.

Hao Jie crab roe Steamboat, opposite Jusco Kepong

Add: Jalan Metro Perdana Barat 2, Kepong
Located: Opposite Jusco mall

Thanks to VY for the recommendation ... one of the better steamboats in Steamboat-town aka Kepong!


Communal eating ala steamboat is great fun!


VY recommended mixing some fried shallots in the chilli sauce ... it works!

Fried bits and pieces ... a good "appetiser" whilst waiting for the cauldron of steamboat to boil!

Crab roe ... so colourful! RM$79.

Crabs ... before and after! Really fresh, RM$66 per 2 kg.

ps - Hope everyone had more luck celebrating Earth Hour then we did, the propietor of the restaurant had not heard about it and even when she did ... didn't want to switch off the lights! As a small contribution, we each switched off all lights in our home, and I even had my FB-gadget and Nokia ... off!

Restoran Ketam Steamboat Seafood, Bandar Menjalara at Kepoong

Tel: +603 6272 2286
Location: Thanks to LimMeiYen's blog for this description ...
1) If you are coming from LDP, make a U-turn after the Toll and keep to your right.
2) Turn right and you will meet one roundabout.
3) At the roundabout, turn left (9 o'clock) and go straight till you meet a junction which is right in front of a Mosque.
4) Once you reach that junction, turn left-right and you will see a few petrol stations on your left.
5) Turn right at the first junction and go straight.
6) You will see Ketam Steamboat, on the left-hand side.

The starters ... Really good sweet-chilli sauce is served with the Chicken Wings at an adjacent road-side stall. About RM$2 per piece. "Ordinary tasting" chicken accentuated with deeeelicious dipping sauce!


The Steamboat - Brilliant!
1) Fresh seafood
2) Excellent and firm fishballs, which were obviously hand-made from good fish
3) Soup and Tom-yam broth wasn't too MSG-fied!


Cost? About RM$13-14 per person, but the additional stuff like enoki mushrooms (straw mushrroms @ RM$8 per plate) etc adds up very quickly. We ended up spending about RM$20 per head, for the four of us.

Chen Ho Ho Seafood Steamboat, Bukit Tinggi in Klang

Chen Ho Ho is located in... Bukit Tinggi, Klang.

This is a portion for 3 persons - RM$12.50 per person.


Steamboat or "Tah Pin Loh" is basically a cauldron of boiling soup (In the past, only clear ikan-bilis or anchovies based soup was used, now you can get all variants of soup including the ever-popular Tom Yam) which you dip your raw meats and veges in :-) A wholesome interactive meal for friends and family!


Delicious fried tung fun, at RM$6.


ps - Tea came up to be RM$3 in total, very reasonable. Overall, a good meal!

Mizi Shabu Shabu Steamboat, Bandar Puteri @ Puchong

Yes .. I am on a steamboat frenzy :-) 2 days on the trot!



Add: Mizi Shabu Shabu @ No 17, Jln Puteri 2/5, Bandar Puteri, Puchong
Tel: +603 8060 3221
Opening hours: Mon - Sat (11.30am - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm)
& Sun (11.30am - 3pm, 5.30pm - 11pm

This is the "famous" sauce, a blend of oils, fried shallots, spring onions, and simply delicious .. but probably not very healthy! To add to this, each meat dish comes with a small dish of Sa Cha Cheong (Taiwan specialty) as well. Goes really well with the food!


We ordered a set ... Beef Slice Set (RM$20.90).


I loved the meats here, fresh, thinly sliced, and delicious ... Pork (Extra order @ RM$6) and Beef (which came with the set, but we ordered a 2nd dish @ RM$8).


All food stuff here is modular in nature i.e. you choose what you want, and you pay for each. Even the soup! Each person gets their own Steamboat, or more like Shabu Shabu, which is a small cauldron with a very fast acting and hot electric heater below (All very hygienic I have to say! And dare I saw ... modern!). My choice of soup was Herbal Soup A (RM$3.30), whilst my buddy had ABC soup (Which is simply onions, carrots and potatoes) @ RM$2.
We also ordered some ... Fresh fish slices (RM$7)


Other dishes we ordered ...
Pork meatball (Small @ RM$3)
Kum Chum Koo aka Straw or needle mushrooms (Enoki) @ RM$6 a plate (We had two)
Crystal bean curd (RM$3.50)
Pumpkin slice (RM$2)
Dried seaweed (RM$2)
Chinese parsley (RM$1)
Taro slice (RM$2.50)

The final bill? A little over RM$81. For 2 persons. Ouch!!


Overall, I was left a little dissapointed ... the meal started off great, but again with the copious amounts of MSG, the taste just seemed to diminish as the meal went along. I remember from a previous (and first) visit to Mizi Shabu Shabu Steamboat , it seemed a lot yummier. Hmmm....