Piggin Out @ Shabu-Shabu, Kuchai Lama

Shabu-Shabu @ Kuchai Lama is one of our favorite hang out spot for 3 very simple reasons:

-          Cheap

-          A lot

-          Delicious

For only RM31.80 per person, you get to enjoy a nice personal hot pot of soup to yourself (no need to share-share with everybody else who dips their saliva coated chopsticks into the same steamboat pot) and an endless stream of food served through the “sushi” belt all while you’re seated.

It’s of course buffet style served through the belt but for the unlimited supply of meat (pork, lamb, beef) you’ll need to order through the waitress/waiter.

Apart from the 3 simple reasons why we absolutely enjoy this place, there are another couple of reasons why we eat here whenever our pockets allow us to:

-     We don’t end up going back with diarrhea. Unlike some other shabu-shabu/steamboat restaurants where the food is somehow contaminated by god knows what.

-     We don’t have to line up just to have 1 staff slicing the meats for the entire restaurant. Here, everytime we order the meat, it’s promptly delivered to us within minutes.

-     The food on the belt is promptly replenished. They literally have 2 staff standing in the kitchen (where the belt enters) who replenishes whatever food that has been taken instantly.

-     Wide variety of food ranging from seafood (mussels, prawns, fish, squid), meat (chicken, pork, lamb, beef), vege (light green, dark green, yellow type) and balls (fish one, pig one, cow one).

-     It’s air-conditioned and although you smell funky when you come out, it does not feel stuffy when you’re in.

-     Plates on the table are cleared superbly fast reducing the chance of you having a heart attack seeing the amount of plates you’ve eaten.

The Place

The Belt

The Sauce

The Meat

The Binging

One thing that really stand out about this place is it’s honesty in running a buffet themed restaurant. A lot of buffet places out there (be it expensive hotels/cheap places) would try their best to make you full as soon as possible (by loading the food with high calorie stuff i.e cheese - evident in Shogun/Saisaki where they cheese up their oysters, escargots, prawns, scallops and serve you huge chunks of meat), limit the amount of the more expensive food out (by not replenishing fast enough – evident in Temptations, Renaissance with their oysters), or the quality of food drops with time (also evident in Temptations, Renaissance where the size of their chilled prawns grew smaller and smaller with time). Their honesty in serving you the best with the price you paid is reflected in their entire operations. Awesome place.



Location:
11 & 13 Dinasti Sentral,
Jalan Kuchai Maju 18,
Off Jalan Kuchai Lama,
58200 Kuala Lumpur