Friday, 29 August 2008, after shopping with my family at Ipoh Parade, we went to the new MP Steamboat Restaurant located at the Ground Floor near the concourse area. The restaurant was just opened, sometime in June 2008. The restaurant is operated by Movenpeak, a leading steamboat restaurant chain based in Ipoh.
The restaurant have set menu, i.e economy, chicken, seafood, lamb and beef set. We ordered the chicken set @ RM11.80 and chicken soups. They recommended MP Exotic Chinese Herbs (RM1.00) to be added to the chicken soup to give a delicious herbal soup. We have also added a side dish, fresh salmon sashimi (RM18.00) to go with the steamboat.
Chinese teas (cold and hot) are served immediately, while waiting for the soups to arrive. The electronic controlled steamboat boiler is a bit sophisticated. You have to learn how to switch it on, to increase/decrease the heat and to wonder which control is to control the steamboat boiler. On our table, there were 4 boiler and we were guessing which switch is controlling the boiler. However, instructions are available inside the menu, which we did not know in the first place!
The soup came and follow by the chicken set which i think is adequate of a small family like us, 2 adults and 2 children. There were chicken meat, vegetables, one egg, one noodle, bean-curd, meatballs, fishballs, taufu pok and mushroom in the set. The food and especially the salmon sashimi were fresh! Not forgetting the tasty chili-paste to go with the food.
The specialty of this place is that they have a conveyor belt (just like those Japanese sushi restaurant) with plates of all food, i.e vegetables, meat, noodles, fuchuk, bean-curd and etc for you to try the rest of the food. The price based on the colour of the plate, ranging from Rm1.00 to RM4.00.
Total bill, RM57.55, inclusive of 10% service charge. Overall, i give a high rating for this place for good fresh food, reasonably cheap prices and good service. I'm also happy with the restaurant hygiene as you may know that some steamboat restaurant, especially those old restaurant is not that hygienic.
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