Makan N KTV!

Found a nice place to eat Ma La (麻辣) hotpot. Its at marina south. It is a air conditioned restaurant. So its an excellent place for people who is afraid of heat and yet wants a meal of hot pot. Actually wasn't my first time there. Though I think the food standard was not better than the first time I was there. But the food is still good!!! Now with a Taiwanese couple joining the restaurant, the services are excellent. In fact, the lady boss services was bit re qing (热情) :) And with the fact now there are 2 extra Taiwanese bosses, they are serving more Taiwanese style side dishes.

First we were served with some side appetiser which consists of the chilli pork belly, vinegar cold cabbage, Taiwanese style fried chicken cutlet and braised pork rice (卤肉饭). My friend was totally in love with the braised pork rice, where he had 2 bowls of it. Hehe I was busy eating that I forget I should take a picture of it :P We ordered 2 soup base; the Ma La (spicy) and the Chinese wine chicken. The Ma La is really those that will numb your tongue, but it is not really spicy and hot. The special Szechuan peppercorn they added to the soup causes the numbness. This soup base is especially good for dipping in meats. They only sliced the meats (there are beef, chicken, pork and mutton) when you ordered it, so it’s really fresh! And it is so thinly sliced that you just need to dip into the soup for 4-5 seconds and its ready to eat. Hehe its like eating sabu sabu :P There are 3 levels of Ma La; mild, intermediate and the spicy. For first timer, you may want to try the intermediate level. Hehe personally i find that I can't enjoy much in the spicy version as my tongue are numb most of the time :P So I prefer the intermediate version.

My favourite is the Chinese wine chicken soup base. What I understand is that they will stir-fried the chicken with Hua Diao (花雕) wine and ginger then they will add in the chicken soup. Wah its very nice!! I can taste the fragrant of the wine. One thing I really like is that the bosses are very generous, when the lady boss are helping us refill the soup she offered to add more of the wine if we want. Hehe I cannot help but keep drinking the soup. I love my Tang'O and yam inside. HeeHee must try the yam, they fried the yam until almost cook. So after few minutes in the soup, the yam could almost melt in your mouth. The best is that you won't feel that the yam is oily from frying not like some other places. After the meal, they serve this cold dessert, it seem to be a mixture of red beans and porridge. According to the lady boss, its suppose to have a cooling effect after the heaty meal. I kind of like it hehe cos all along I like red bean. But my Bf totally not into it.

Overall, I felt that the service is excellent. The lady boss keeps asking whether we need anything else. The food is good. The ambience is great. Hehe I like this paper rabbit lantern that they hanged as decoration, so cute!! Haha almost feel like asking the lady boss where she got it :P The pricing is reasonable too. I will definitely go back again :)

After the meal, we proceed to KTV hehe my favourite pastime :P As you can see from the picture(sorry deleted), initially V was very shy. But partly cos S keep disturbing her too *hiak hiak* Bully xiao meimei hee hee. She is also quite camera shy, keep blocking her pretty face from the camera. Finally she decided to sing a few songs. Bravo!! The photo quality is bit bad cos we using our phone and its pretty dark inside the room.

S is usually good mood. Can see he is enjoying himself :P Usually the guys don't sing a lot when we go to the KTV. Most of the time, we girls will be hogging the mic :P But that night S manage to sing quite a few songs too. And we even sing a few hokkien songs haha. As you can see in the picture(sorry deleted), P was looking very engrossed at the MTV :P

Usually Mr J doesn't sing when he goes KTV with us. He just watches some of his favourite Mayday MTVs. But that day after the other guys keep asking him to sing for us, haha he finally picked up the mic :P He must be very tired cos he come to meet us after his class after work. Poor thing. See him dozing off in the picture :P Between this is his new haircut (sorry deleted). Haha that vain guy just went to KL with S. And he vain vain went to the saloon there to cut hair. Hehe..

Oh no... I already feel the itch to sing again. Hehe :P

(sorry guys, as requested some of the photos had been taken out. Cheers!!! )

As requested, the info of the restaurant :)
Road Side Stall Hot Pot
31 Marina Park #01-04/02-04 Planet Marina, Marina South