The Mushroom Pot

16 May 2008

Mushrooms Mushrooms Mushrooms … Aly loves them… Fai hates them …

We’ve never been to the Mushroom Pot since they opened their first outlet at the Indoor Stadium… They’ve since opened 2 other outlets, at OG Orchard Point and this one, Millenia Walk.

Checked with Aly if she was hungry ‘cos she didn’t know where I had in mind ….

Found the place and asked her if it was okay with her… mushrooms! She didn’t say no

Place was rather quiet… was it ‘cos we were early?
Packets of tissue (we were charged 30cents per packet at the end of the meal for this)

Okay…what do the words say?

We were served with some appetisers …. Wild mushrooms with thai spices…
This was a cold dish … light and tangy… to open up your taste buds

some Mushroom rolls …. with some thai chilli sauce dip

and Monkey head mushrooms with house dressing …
There were some walnuts amongst the mushrooms…. eeeks!
Aly didn’t like the house dressing… she found it too sweet…
I liked the texture of this though… crispy on the outside… soft mushroom on the inside

We were only allowed one serving per table for the appetisers

Soup base we took something non spicy, which was Wild Mushroom soup.

The soup itself had a strong smell and taste of mushroom… pretty tasty on its own…

The waitress suggested that she picked a mixed bit of ingredients for us since it was our first time there… and asked us if there was anything we didn’t like or want to have…. so we told her no bittergourd

So round 1 had us eating some prawns, fish slices, mixed homemade balls, mixed meat, sausages… etc.

Hmmm… I think we should’ve opted to choose our own items instead….

So here are some of the stuff for round 2, stuff we selected on our own…
Sliced beef, pork tripe, beef tripe, white cabbage, pork liver, pork belly and pig skin
I can have just round after round of similar items

Red meat Yum!

Their homemade balls… we ordered more sotong balls and prawn balls… the fish balls we had earlier weren’t very good though

The cooked balls … very mush when raw

Aly was expecting more selections of mushrooms in the buffet menu … but only a few were listed… so we just asked for a mixed plate of mushrooms… can you see how many different types are there on the plate?

The soup became sweeter after the addition of all the meat and prawns….

Atmosphere was pretty good…. clean and bright and best of all… air con

The waitresses were very helpful as well… service was excellent….

Total bill was for 2 x buffet, 1 x Pepsi, 1 x Iced Barley and 2 x tissue = $62.40 which blew to $73.44 after gst and service charge.

Question is, would we return to dine here? Aly said no as she was disappointed with the mushrroms, I think she had 1001 Mario mushrooms in her head when we entered the place only to find a few that we could choose from…

For me… I wouldn’t mind …. as they had some of the stuff I like in a steamboat… mainly the pork and beef tripe, sliced beef… ingredients were fresh, soup stock was good too… the appetisers were interesting
Good service… air con… and not too many people… nice!
Now… if only the price was lower