Of Bei Shan Chuan Steamboat

It was a lazy sunday morning and a very last minute arrangement lunch with the guys, liang and fred.

Bei Shan Chuan Steamboat at VivoCity was the choice venue, the air-conditioned buffet steamboat having been opened for awhile though this was a first visit for all three of us, in fact, it was the first time that we had lunch together in a long long while, much less a steamboat buffet lunch..

Price for adults on weekends are slightly on the heavier side costing 18.90++ per adult, we didn't see the NSF discount earlier, if not, the bill would definitely be cheaper since liang is still an NSF, while, we was re-NSF after he got back his civilian life for his university studies

Drinks were also expensive where juices cost like 3 bucks while soft drinks went for 2. Okie, enough about price

For the soup base, we were able to choose between seafood, chicken and ma-la(spicy), we took the chicken and ma-la soup base while the electric induction cooker meant that there was no direct flame in the restaurant

I was quite impressed with the variety of food that Bei Shan Chuan had to offer, there was a good spread of vegetables, meats and the usual yong-tou-fu stuff, my favourite being the sliced beef that was of good quality

We were in fact the earliest to arrive (opens at 12) and didn't have much problem with the food replenishment though the beef did run out at one time because liang said some botak took all the beef away, haha..

Surprising, i didn't whack prawns this time round, i have less than 10, which is a record low for me in steamboat.. turns out that my 2 friends of more than 10 years both don't really take prawn.. maybe some of you might think that friends for so long then you don't know they don't eat prawns? Well.. we are not those know everything kind of friends and we are just fine with that thank you very much.. fred didn't remember that i don't take spicy food too, but it doesn't really bother me at all.. it doesn't matter at all in fact..

So in all, we were quite satisfied with the food quality and variety and we didn't even think about desserts since we never intended to pack our tummy with food..

The service, well, lets say there almost wasn't any.. the only time the male staff(uncle) finally smiled to me was when i signed off the $79.20 bill for 3 adults and 4 drinks ordered.. the 10% service charge was not worthy at all.. but i guess in SG culture, we are not so direct to ask not to pay for the 10% when we think that the service was not there..

All in all, it was the company that counts and not the cost of the meal.. it was great to see the guys again and hear about how each other are doing over hot soup, good meat and good food..

There was a piece of news that i was supposed to share but did not find an opportunity to, till next time when we meet up again then