重庆正宗老火锅 (Chongqing Original Old Hotpot*)

Dining out at 重庆正宗老火锅, located at Chye Sing Building, 87 Beach Road, celebrating his 30th birthday was a great experience. 重庆火锅 has been our all time-favourite eating out place. It allows flexibility where you can drop by there at any timing (since the shop is still open till midnight).

The chinese-style hotpot has many side dishes of raw meats in thin slices (chicken, pork, beef, liver), fish, squid(sotong) and vegetables are cooked by dipping into the hotpot which is kept simmering at a boiling temperature. The best part of the steamboat meal is savouring the soup after all the meats and vegetables have been cooked and eaten. It is at this time that the soup is at its richest and tastiest!

We went for the less-spicy chilli soup on 1/2 the pot and herbal broth soup in the other half. The chilli mala soup (麻辣汤) was great and I liked the herbal soup too. The freshness of the meats and seafood was pretty obvious. The juicy prawns were a delight too, though my personal favourites were the Fuzhou Fishballs, Gu Chai Dumpling, the gigantic clams and their variaty of fresh mushrooms. Also, this shop offers about 7 or 8 types of dip sauces - sesame oil, peanut etc...allowing their customers to select themselves - nice ! Yummy ! All this for $18 flat (inclusive of free-flow drinks)!

Finally the most incredible thing I saw here - and this is something I've not seen in Singapore for a while - is that the shop workers were actually generously topping up the food!

Spicy hotpot Chongqing-style with mala chilli soup and herbal broth soup !
A variety of choicesMachine-sliced ultra-thin meats - mutton, beef, pork and chickenSquid balls, Fuzhou fish balls, button shrooms and lotus root. Peanut sauce dip sprinkled with sesame seeds.