The first time I celebrated Chinese New Year here I have somewhat culture shock, because I never eaten Malay food for a whole week nor will I be eating Mc Donald during festive season my entire life.

That feeling  of bored has left me today whenever I step foot again in this town of Kuantan. For some reason I’ve grown fond of Hubby’s hometown in Kuantan.

Maybe its the people that kept me company, Family members that I have grown closer to

The food that I have started to miss and enjoyed

The streets that never gets busy and got stuck by traffic

The Beach that is close by

The chance to relax, to do nothing to Sleep and Eat and Sleep and Eat

The chance to worry not about what’s to eat or cook

The opportunity to visit sun bear at the zoo and a walk at the Garden anytime

The touristy feeling that never left

Wallie, the house pet dog the apple of the family’s eye

Life is just laidback, no traffic jam, probably have to evolve abit around nieces who need to go to tuition and school activities, everythings is a breeze and I can just sit in the living room or just relax in the room, do nothing as my SIL and BIL hospitality was excellent (Thank you very much)  and not worried about food as food is always abundant at home. I have to describe as abundance coz I can never starve here BIL will prepare food to eat at home or eat at restaurant, Hubby keep going out buying his favourite East Coast snack like keropok lekor, samosa, curry puff, cucur udang and many more. Even with all this snack in his stomach he will ask to go for ABC or Ice Kacang and near to dinner there are a couple of restaurants that I really like to go like Restaurant Mido in Balok, Shark Meat restaurant, Sherwood for western and more.

Other thing that I look forward to:

Going back to Kuantan for Durian has already been a tradition to me and Hubby will agree to let me eat as much as I like. Bliss!!

Big house, Big land in Kuantan, always past by this Dalmation house the owner keep several dogs here not sure if they breed dogs but their dogs got a big land to run and look happy.

East Coast food Nasi Kerabu (blue rice).  I dont fancy much of Nasi Dagang as I find the fishy sauce too fishy for me, but Nasi Kerabu was my favourite it taste like Rice Salad so complex and with different texture, I love it very much.

Before heading back to KL from Kuantan usually I look forward to dinner at Bukit Tinggi and buy some salad or fresh vegetables and I miss that too.

When will we be going back to Kuantan again to relax? I wonder and I hope it wont be long, probably before the kickoff ceremony of our house renovation.

Very high class ah, we chinese also have fondue. Summo its so common.

Do you like Chinese fondue?

Also known as Malaysian steamboat? 

Chinese Fondue, Steamboat or Hot Pot is prepared by many chinese homes. Its a simple meal popularly served during the Chinese New Year, with a wide array of selections of meat balls, noodles, fresh vegetables, seafood and slices of meat to be dip into simmering stock or added into the soup stock and cook. Imagine on the middle of the table, a hot pot full of raw ingredients cooking and everyone seated at the table waiting to dig in.

Having steamboat is also a good way to  share  and socialize at the same time. Rainy season and cold weather are perfect for having steamboat as dinner. Agree not??

In recent years steamboat restaurant in klang valley has find its spot in the heart of food lovers and booming fast when they introduce variety of soups and wide choices of fresh ingredients to attract diners. A new introduction  of steamboat favoured by Malaccans namely Satay celup only available in Melaka is also popular nowadays. It is MELAKA Satay Celup, MELAKA Steamboat. (Have to stress its MELAKA if not later the Singaporean claimed it to be Singaporean satay celup, siao. Anything Malaysian was labelled Singapore’s origin)

As steamboat is also one of my favourite meal together with family and friends, I find it hard to refrain myself to dine-out at any of these steamboat restaurants as well. The price for a Steamboat can be as cheap as MYR15 per person to as much as MYR50-100 per person depending on the ingredients chosen from varieties of fishballs to wide selections of seafood like prawns, squid, fish, even abalone, vegetables and meat, marinated kampung chicken etc.

Enough said, here’s the photo of the dinner I took the other day at Bone & Pot Damansara Utama.

Soup that we chose. Pork Bone Soup and Pig stomach with pepper soup.

Many selections of dipping sauce/ chilli paste.

All kept in this container. Very hygienic

Oh so delicious – house specialty pork ball. It sell-out fast, we only manage to have 2 order that day.

If not mistaken, these are the cheese balls. Yummeh!!

Fried chicken cartilage. I love this very much and ordered a second serving too.

Fishballs with sea urchin fillings.

Generous fillings!! Hmm Crab Roe fish ball? sorry if its wrong- cannot remember which is which.

Sliced pork, very thin!!

Tofu is a must for a steamboat meal. hehehe

Overall we spend about RM170+- for 5 pax. Although price tag on the expensive side but the meal was good!!!

Its an air-conditioned restaurant btw, more comfortable to eat here actually.