It was the boyfriend's birthday last month and his friends very kindly brought us to Shabu Sai at Orchard Central for a dinner celebration. I really like steamboat buffet because we can eat a lot and I am very fond of the soup bases in steamboat! So we arrived in high spirits.
The prices of the steamboat buffet are stated above. You can add $1.99 for free flow drinks which was what we did. The mushrooms, vegetables and sushi were arranged neatly along the counter and kept fresh with the constant flow of cold air from the fridge. I particularly love the large range of mushrooms which they offered. It was really a field day for a mushroom lover like myself.
The meat was delivered fresh from the freezer to your table when you order them. The slices of meat were thin since its a shabu shabu restaurant and arrived at your table in neatly arranged rows on small black trays. The arrangement was immaculate! And I like the fact that the meat comes straight from the freezer. Keeps it fresh. You can choose between pork, beef, and chicken. Some of us had pork and chicken while the others had beef.
As for soup bases, each table had a choice of two. Our table had the spicy and tonkotsu shoyu soup bases. The tonkotsu shoyu soup base was incredibly salty! We were told to add plain water to dilute the stock base but no matter how much water we added, the soup base was still really salty. The spicy one was not spicy at all. It tasted pretty mild and quite yummy. So no surprise that I preferred cooking the meat in the spicy soup base.
It's a convenient location and a good comfortable place to have a steamboat buffet. Shabu Sai seemed a little short on staff when we visited but other than that, it was a decent experience. Thank you to the boyfriend's friends for the birthday celebration for him! :)
Orchard Central #08-09/10/11
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