Siu~V: Moon's Birthday at Suki-ya's

Suki-ya "House of Hot-Pot" is not your regular kind of steamboat buffet restaurant. If ya looking to stuff yourself with tons and variety of meat, then this may not be to your ideal liking.

However, I personally enjoyed my time here recently and you will soon discover five reasons why i said so.

First of all, it's Japanese!! :-)

Now, to go to this restaurant, head over to the end of Tokyo Street in Pavilion (6th floor). It's right beside the Daisho store. We arrived early for dinner but the entire place was a full house later on in the night.

With a name like 'Healthy Bar', don't expect to find any greasy fatty food or high cholesterol seafood stacked up.

Instead, they've got clean, fresh crisp greens and a variety of mushroom, balls and noodles for your selection. Sorry i happen to be a vege freak. :-)

Also found some ready-made sushi rolls which turned out to be pretty good too.

Of course i didn't dine alone; i was with a bunch of buddies to celebrate Moon's birthday. Since us health underwriters called the shots, hence the decision to go h-e-a-l-t-h-y that night! (haha, sorree Jac)

Basically, this place only provides you 3 kinds of meat - chicken, beef (imported from Australia or so they claim) and lamb. All very thinly sliced (so they cook in no time), non-marinated (so you taste the freshness of it) and can be replenished till your belly's content! My fave was the lamb! :-)

Aaah..there's nothing like having quality steamboat in the company of great friends, in a non-sweaty environment. The thing i dislike about steamboat restaurants is when they still use gas stoves. Use electric hobs already!

For the same type of food, you can choose to either pay RM 29.80++ (for lunch) or RM 39.80++ (for dinner). A reasonable additional 10 bucks for more time to dine and mingle. Choose from their 3 types of soup base - shabu-shabu, sukiyaki and kimchi. While my fave was the sukiyaki (as it had more flavour to it right from the beginning), the kimchi was alarmingly too hot and spicy for my liking. One wrong slurp down the throat and you'll be ruining the rest of your dinner.

Jac with her swift cooking moves only took chicken and beancurd the entire night. apalah... =.=

From all the different sauces and condiments we got, their sambal belacan really got POWER!

Finally, the time came for dem girls to show Moon some birthday loveeeeee....

....guys included too.

THIS coming from his own manager...?!

But finally, his sweetheart takes the cake.... ><

Some other photos we took that night...My belly looks huge when standing up.

"Moon, you trying to style your hair like Tintin's?"

Hey, i can hide it sitting down.

My last fave of the night - their free flow of ice cream! :-) Shape it right from the ice-cream dispenser itself and top it off with all sorts. I love it that it's not too sweet, but i was too full, all i had was one cup. Note to self : next time, start off with the ice cream first.