Friday 27 January 2017

Dinner With Friends At DIY Mini Hotpot, Menglembu.

Last Tuesday evening, we were invited to a dinner treat at DIY MINI HOTPOT. It is our first time trying out the food here. It was a cold rainy day and just nice for a hot pot & bbq dinner.
We were early. We reached just before 6.30 pm.
The ground floor has only mini hotpot or mini steamboat. The 1st floor has both mini hotpot & BBQ (2 in 1). Here are the rates. There is a special rate for senior citizens, aged 60 years & above.
Ground floor.
The place is fully air-conditioned.
1st floor.
By the time we finished our dinner, both the 1st and ground floor were fully packed with customers.
An in-built electric stove at our table. On the left is for grilling and on the right for hot pot. We asked for Tom Yum and plain soup base.
It is buffet style.
Checking out the types of food available.
Types of sauces.
These are ready cooked food items. Fried beancurd, fried meat nuggets, fried beancurd rolls and fried chicken wings on the left and on the right are the fried rice and fried noodle.
These are uncooked food items available. Just take what you want and return to own table to  cook these items.
 Noodles, eggs, mushrooms, gao zi dumplings, bread, etc.
 Fresh green veggie and sesame salad sauce, eggs & dried noodles.
Gao zi dumplings and siew mai dumplings, etc.
Chilled cut watermelon and sweet desserts in the refrigerator.
We started off with some thinly sliced meat. We grilled the meat slices with some butter on top of the parchment paper placed over the griller.
While the meat is being grilled and the food cooking in the soup, I enjoyed a plate of lettuce salad with sesame sauce and some ready cooked chicken wings and roasted pork.

I took some snapshots of wall decorations and hangers but only this one turns out clear.
Notice on their Chinese New Year off days.
By the time we finished our dinner, it was 9 pm. It took us slightly more than 2 hours to enjoy this Hot Pot dinner. Thank you, friends for a wonderful dinner and fellowship.

But if we are living in the light of God's presence,
just as Christ does, then we have wonderful fellowship and
joy with each other, and the blood of Jesus his Son
cleanses us from every sin.
(1 John 1:7, The Living Bible-TLB)
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The following photos are for joining Good Fences and Skywatch Friday.
Yellow flower and green fence.
Green chain link fencing
Moon Flowers and green fence.
 Sunrise at 6:56:47 am 
Sunrise at 6:56:57 am
Sunset at 18:50:32 pm


Wishing all my friends and readers:
" A Blessed Chinese New Year to you and family
& Happy Holiday! "

51 comments:

  1. Beautiful nature photos! And I love the large amount of choices at that restaurant! :)

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    1. Thank you, Linda. Plenty of choices to cater for individual's preferences.

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  2. What beautiful sky shots! I've seen built in stoves like that at a Mongolian restaurant here.

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    1. Thank you, William. These stoves are convenient and they are placed at the right level/height.

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  3. Many variety of foods to choose from...

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    1. Thank you, Sharon. Not everything we like, we just take what we want to eat.

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  4. I do enjoy hotpot. There is one near my work place and it is also buffet style.

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    1. I also enjoy hotpot where we can cook the food while seated and then eat and enjoy the food.

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  5. This looks like such a fun place!! Both food and fun! And you can get whatever you want, and cook it however you want. I think the yellow flower is a wild sunflower and the white one is a moon flower.

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    1. Thank you, Ginny. I like it too because we get to pick, cook and eat the food the way we enjoy it.

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  6. ...nice to see that 'love' is on the menu!

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    1. Thank you, Tom. Yes, love is the most important ingredient!

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  7. Interesting post my dear, thank you for sharing :-)

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  8. Awesome hotpot treats, Nancy. I would love some satay based soup :-))

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  9. What a delight, a wonderful buffet and always nice to meet up with friends.

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    1. Thank you, Mamas. It was a wonderful dinner in the company of friends.

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  10. Ever since I redeemed an induction cooker from maybank n have been having steamboat at home, we have not gone out for steamboat. Kind of miss this too.

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    1. I have been thinking of getting an induction cooker but till now have bought one yet. I think it is very useful.

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    1. Thank you, Ola. Yes, plenty to choose from.

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  12. Oh yummy. I would really love dining here.

    Have a fabulous day and weekend, Nancy. ☺

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    1. Thank you, Sandee. I wouldn't mind going back again.

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  13. Beautiful sunrise photos. And, you've made me hungry.

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  14. Magical sunrise, yummy food and bright flowers made me happy...

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    1. Thank you, Angel. All these makes me happy too!

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  15. You definitely know all the best places to eat at, Nancy!

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    1. Thank you, Christine. All thanks to our friends for introducing new places to us.

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    1. Thank you, Jo-Anne. It was a wonderful meal with great company!

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  17. It had been a long long time since I last had steamboat, hotpot not for me cos I cannot take too spicy food, I will get cough and sore throat after that, but I don't mind BBQ, it seems you had a wonderful dinner

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    1. Thank you, Libby. The hotpot is not fully spicy. They have twin container, one for plain soup and one for tom yum. The customers can choose what soup base they want.

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  18. That restuarant had a very good variety of foods to choose from.
    Such pretty flowers growing by the fence.
    Loved that first sky shot.

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    1. Thank you, Basia. Happy weekend to you too!

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  20. Beautiful sky shots! Enjoy your weekend.

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  21. beautiful flowers. I will have dumplings tomorrow. Happy weekend Nancy!

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  22. Thank you, Felicia. Have a wonderful day!

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  23. Happy CNY to you and your family! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Price is not too expensive and the choices are a lot! Nice way to cook your food and bond with your friends. :)

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    1. Thank you, Mun. Blessed CNY to you and family too! Price especially for seniors is very reasonable. Great to have it with friends or family...take own sweet time to cook and enjoy...need not have to rush.

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  24. Thank you, dear. Have a fantastic day!

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  25. A very interesting dinner Nancy. I like the ides of getting what you want for yourself. See ya.

    Cruisin Paul

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