Hometown Steamboat @ Kota Damansara

After a long period of working in IBM, I have become close to some of the colleagues, and steamboat has become one of the favorite outings, as we could have variety of food and the time we could spend together chit-chatting.

Hometown Steamboat is one of the new discovery that we went. Its located near Sunway Giza, in Kota Damansara, where a lot of pubs, clubs, and dessert shops are located. 

There are, of course, rules in ordering. There are few variety of soup base to be ordered, and the famous one are pumpkin porridge and normal porridge soup base. However, we ordered the normal one as the first-timer here. 

Normal one person set portion cost from RM15-RM20, but minimum two set must be ordered for one type/set choice. As we have 6 person, the waiter suggested the two different sets below, due to the difference in choice for the sets.

Pulau Ketam Fish Ball Set

Hometown Special Set

Wine Marinated Chicken

Besides the set, we ordered a few side dishes as well, i chose wine marinated chicken to try out whether they did marinate the chicken thoroughly. It was indeed quite good, as even after cooking, the fragrance of the wine stays.

One of my colleague that frequent this shop suggested the chicken wing as well, which taste as good as it looks.

The total bill went up to RM140 for 6 person and all of us went off with full stomachs.Overall rating would be 8/10 for this shop. Good choice for small gathering....Definitely a good hang out place.....

Restoran Tasty Pot @ Bandar Sunway

Steamboat restaurants seemed to hav been mushrooming in Sunway for the past decade, with one of the most popular ones such as Yuen. However, stronger competitors are starting to step onto this playground to get a slice of the market share off the incumbents. Among the strong new comer (within the past year) is Tasty Pot. You can see the signboard even from the highway itself, bearing a steamboat pot and some varieties of claypot dishes.


I was suprised to know that they actually serve quite a number of different broth for the steamboat, among them are Tom Yam, Herbal Soup, Porridge, Curry Soya, and Soya Bean. Pretty impressive. I've ordered herbal soup and tomyam to benchmark with Choong Fatt(one of the best steamboat restaurant in Cheras).
Suprisingly, its pretty good...gonna try curry soya next round.

Look at the varieties of steamboat items available...




I certainly blew me away when i saw scallops, meat crabs, mussels, prawns and even large snails available. They are so fresh, a snail even tried to escaped , but is not quick enough and landed into the hot pot...

Normal steamboat items, nothing to shout about
Dark fungus, tau foo pok, and my favourite foo chuk are among the varieties of items available

This is where the magic begins.....

Marinated Grilled fish(quite good) and Sweet potato(real sweet) though, this presentation might seem awkward and makes the sweet potato look like egg roe..hahaha
Fried mini crabs, fried bun and sweet&sour vegetables (pretty good overall)

Pros: Priced quite affordable at RM23.80/pax, food are quite fresh and plenty of varieties

Cons: Customer service not up to standard, pot with 3 varieties of broth can only be selected if > 8pax

Result: 8.5/10