YOU'D THINK THIS HEAT IS ENOUGH to put you off eating, let alone having a boiling-hot Steamboat dinner! Well, food is food, and when I was invited to review the Parkroyal's latest offering of steamboat, I jumped at the chance, so along I trot to their trendy Cool Bananas poolsite outlet. Actually you can also get steamboat at Tamarind Brasserie but we chose Cool Bananas because it's air conditioned and also because it's got a choice of some other a la carte items which are really quite good, as No2 Son was with me and he's not that fond of steamboat.
So there we are: for RM68++pp (min 4 pax at CB) you get a selection of raw stuff brought to your table, together with Chicken Stock or Tom Yam soup. There's quite a lot of meat: filleted fish, chicken or beef, and lots of seafood: tiger prawns, mussels, crabs etc. Personally it was all I could do to handle the prawns; the thought of tackling the crabs was just too much so I left those alone. Plenty of noodles and green veg as well.
However, they do have a great selection of condiments (garlic and ginger sauce, sambal belacan, must-have chili padi, garlic oil etc) which went well with the chicken stock, my personal preference because it doesn't envelop the taste of everything with lemon grass!
If you're a Prestige Member there's RM10 off, but if you add another 40 you can get freeflow of wine, beer or soft drinks ... mmm. There's "deluxe" fruit for afters, but I chose the Haagen Daaz ice cream instead. One's gotta take full advantage of these rare opportunities to indulge!
No2 Son chose to have the make-your-own pizza which was quite tasty, although to be frank he helped to polish off a lot of the beef!
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