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If you think that you:

  • want to have steamboat but too lazy to prepare it yourself
  • crave for steamboat but put off by the weather and heat, wishing there’s air-conditioning while enjoying steamboat
  • want to have steamboat yet don’t want to miss the bbq-ed food but don’t fancy doing it yourself
  • long for chocolate fountain dessert but think it’s only available in hotels/classy restaurants
  • want a safe (no gas tanks around every table) yet fast way to enjoy your steamboat
then you ought to give JL Steamboat Restaurant @ Nagore Road a try. This outlet, located diagonally opposite US Pizza and beside Sugar Dynasty Cafe serves buffet steamboat with over 100 variety of steamboat ingredients.

As mentioned, if bbq-ing or grilling is not something you enjoy but don’t want to miss the food, it’s here where you pick what you like and this man will kindly prepare it and serve you when it’s done.

The interior of the outlet. It’s fully air-conditioned and all tables uses electronic stoves.

 

The ingredients:

 

Record breaking number of sauces

 

Soup variety:

(left-to-right) Fish base and Chicken base

Tomyam base and Herbal base

 

My verdict and order of liking of the soup:

  • #1- fish (pleasant taste at first, ginger covers up the fishy taste, but very salty after a few rounds of ingredients)
  • #2- herbal (no over-powering strong herbs taste, a bit mild in the beginning but nice ending taste as the ingredients adds saltiness to it)
  • #3- chicken (taste pretty normal)
  • #4- tomyam (a bit too mild and lack of aroma, not spicy enough)

 

 

All done and ready to be eaten

 

Finger food:

Item includes fried noodle, fried rice, nuggets, fried chicken wing/drummet

 

BBQ/Grilled items:
(items not at the grill section can also be sent to grill)

Mix skewer (prawn, chicken meat, capsicum)

pandan-wrapped chicken, squid, beef slice, chicken slice, mussels, ham, sausages, turmeric-marinated prawns, stingray, crab (seasonal)

Favourite grilled of the night (which happen to be not at the grill section but from the steamboat section); fish cake and Japanese tofu

Desserts:

Fruits, tong sui (black glutinous rice that night), jelly, chocolate fountain and ice-cream (5 flavours)

 

 

 

Creativity award goes to:

Worst+no-artistic-skills award goes to me (right pic) (As long as get to eat, cincai la right??)

Now in promotion:

Daily Lunch Set @ RM 6.90 (includes free-flow drink and a dessert)

 

Steamboat Price:

 

Business Hours:

11.30am - 3.00pm
5.00pm - 11.00pm

Contact:

No. 27, Jalan Nagore,
10050 Georgetown,
Penang.

Tel/Fax: 04-210 1122
URL: www.jlsteamboat.com
(Catering service available too)

For other reviews:

Criz
Steven
Jian
Mary
Allen Ooi

Overall, I feel it’s a cozy and quiet place to have a nice steaming pot of steamboat. Not a huge outlet but enough to accommodate at least 10 small tables and 3 big round tables. Service wise, attentive at the beginning and it’s mostly self-service after that. Grill service might be a little slow depending on the crowd. A reasonable place to consider.

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