Went out for a gathering with jc clique to sort of celebrate jh’s birthday. We decided upon Le Le Pot, which is situated somewhere in Tiong Bahru. Well, it is located at one small street and somewhat hidden from view of the major roads, so I guess it wasn’t very well known too. In fact, there isn’t much web presence either. Anyway, it was opened by this Chinese celebrity who used to appear in my local tv dramas, but I cannot recall his name. He seems rather friendly and even come out to serve customers a couple of times (but he has this erm, how should I put it, lack of expression).

Ok so we have this steamboat buffet in the small shopspace, which eventually felt relatively hot due to the many many many steamboats snuffing out the aircon, but it was still better than most of those you find in Bugis anyday, those are REALLY HOT. With 5 persons, we could only get 2 soup bases, so eventually it was tom yum and herbal chicken. Another thing is you order the food ala carte style and they will bring it to your seats, so no need to keep elbowing your way to the food trays and compete for the stuffs you want. I thought that was a great feature that most steamboats outlets lack.

To comment on the food, the variety is ok for the size of the shop. Very reasonable range of food within each category. And I might also add that they do have a small selection of fried food and prepared dishes that you do not need to cook. It received bonus points from me because these felt non-oily at all! And they taste reasonably good. You know, have been to many many buffet style places and they like to try many many ways to make customers eat less with varied ingenious methods such as having very oily food etc. But over here even the servers ask us to eat more! I think I should also commend on the attentiveness and friendliness of the staff. I’m sure the layout also made it very easy to notice and look out for your customers.

1 more thing about the food. Be on your toes when getting the mussels clams blah blah. Not sure if they had been cleaned properly. Thankfully we only got those on the 3rd round of our orders. Coz after that we ate SAND. Now thats a turn-off. And it also made our appetite goes down I suppose, as nobody seemed to want to eat soon (and also the range of food, coz we more or less ate most/all of the things we wanted to). Oh it came with 1 desert each too, which was some much needed ice. We didn’t order drinks though some of them went next door for a slurpee when we are done. Overall, I still think its one of the best steamboats I have had at this kind of price range. Great, recommended to try.

Who: jiahao, ken, dom, zong, me
Where: Le Le Pot @ Tiong Bahru (58 Seng Poh Road)
Cost: ~19 sgd (my share)