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ketam village seafood | Added 14 Jan ’08, 6.19pm MYT PST | view our flickr gallery

It’s that moment again – we’ve probably caught the steamboat crave on weekends! This time, after a short detour at IKEA for some curtains, we saw this new spacious steamboat place located at the ground floor of ikano powercentre: called The Steamboat – Ketam Village.

One immediate thing we noticed is that everybody gets their own steamboat pot — a neat move especially appreciated by those that do not really want to share other ppl chopsticks (yes, after being constantly licked and dipped in the pot). Initially we only wanted to try the tomyam soup, yet we ended up ordering the clearsoup as well. The menu seems to have a lot of items to pick but nothing much that we see different from other steamboat places that we have been; so we just ordered the prawns & fish + beef slices with those typical greens.

Both of us didnt really like the clearsoup — it is just to sweet for us. The red and green chilli paste are very plain and just okay. The tomyam soup did provide some challenges to the tongue and tastier. Other than that — we think this place is just a normal steamboat place with a predictable taste.

Food: Okay lah, nothing really special.
Soup: Tomyam is better than the clearsoup (it is just too sweet for us).
Price: You could certainly find a better value for money elsewhere
Plus point: Individual steamboat pot!

We found a great write up on the same steamboat restaurant by masak-masak. You can go straight to the article here

ps: Upon reading masak2 article, we found out that there is in fact, a special curry steamboat that the restaurant carrier — we didnt try this so no comment for now. could be the special one.