If you like steamboat and free flow Xiao Long Bao I would like to recommend this place called La Mian Xiao Long Bao to you.
Its a chinese buffet style restaurant at Holland Village with Free Flow Xiao Long Bao that spills soup out of those delicately kneaded dumplings. Yum.


In the picture there are already 10 baskets of XLB and we had 4 rounds of that I think,
so that will be 4 x 10 x 5 = 200 XLBs for 12 of us.
It would be significant to note though, that out of 12, 10 were guys.





Everybody looking very happy and hungry at first, ordering as if the food is free,
as if their pits of their stomachs can never be filled.





More food there because the table was full already..



A steamboat full of prawns


Then it became full of meat


Then full of mushrooms


I'm not sure what that is.


Full of greens


Full of fishballs. The orange ones are nice.


When you add so much nonsense into the steamboat the taste just morphes from delicious to weird.
For the boys who would never in the world feel full, the buffet restaurant defends against hungry people like you by refusing to change the brown suspicious broil.

Some of them at the table said that we would get fined if there were so much wastage..


Perhaps our wastage fine will be greater than the cost of the meal because these were still untouched.

We scooped out the food from the steamboat and passed it around hoping that each person will take some figuring it will become more inedible if we added on before finishing the previous batch of food.



Ashwin didn't want to eat anything from that basket because he claims it smelt like -- lamb from the toilet or lamb soaked in toilet water or something to that extent.

Erm, thats not helping. haha..



Ashwin is happy eating his XLB.

To us Mingjun says, "Dun think shit or what. Think like its a delicacy."


Ya, then stop prodding at the food. Just eat it.

To avoid eating the food that has been made to look like it was marinated in toilet water, digested by lambs and defecated before being served to us, some of us employed tactics that may be useful to you in the future:

1. Act like you are very full and can't eat anymore already.

It is harder to achieve this if you are skinny so you might want to lean back against the chair and push your hips out so that your belly looks distended.


Good demonstration.

2. Emo.

Nobody will ask you to eat if they think you are going flip the steamboat at any stimulus.

Like this:



3. Act Busy



Aiya, What I'm trying to say is that nobody wanted to eat it and then we started pointing fingers and saying who was the dude who ordered so much without thinking he should be the one finishing it to be responsible.



I'm very sleepy already.



I enjoyed myself so thanks JJ for organizing the outing. :)

♥Bid Farewell