Restaurant | Flame Steamboat Buffet
What a feast!!! As you all may already know, PenangTuaPui finds an offer for buffet quite hard to resist. Which is why the lunch buffet at Flame restaurant at RM23.00 nett per person deserves our attention, and so, armed only with our empty stomachs (and wallets, of course) we entered the restaurant at Krystal Point II.
The friendly Nepalese waiter greeted us and showed us to the only table nearest to the entrance. The restaurant was filled with people, all with food glorious food placed strategically surrounding the soup pots or in trolleys beside the tables. Oh yes, we were ready to eat, bring it on!
But first the waiter posed us a question: “Steamboat buffet or normal buffet?” Arrghhh… what’s that? Huat Koay was about to burst with hunger (he needs food to function, you know) but we waited to hear the waiter’s explanation.
Normal buffet consists of salad, an unusual appetizer (keropok with fruits salad), fried noodles, fish fillet, tiny fried shrimp, choice of jasmine green tea, lemon tea or orange juice, and ice cream. Steamboat buffet, on the other hand, means buffet steamboat on top of the normal buffet. Well, no prizes to guess which buffet we went for! Haha…
The next decision we had to make was which soup we wanted. Tam Ciak being his usual greedy self immediately insisted on the herbal soup, tomyam, kimchi and ginger milk soup (since there was 6 of us, we were entitled to 2 pots, and each pot can have 2 selections of soup).
Then we ordered the dishes, with Tam Ciak busy ticking off all different kinds of fishballs, meat, vege, tofu….Wait a minute…. While the rest of us were busy selecting the steamboat dishes, our dear friend Fei Fei was already at the normal buffet table and munching on some fried shrimp!!
The steamboat dishes and soup arrived thankfully fast, and we started putting all the various foodstuff into the pot and waited impatiently to eat (funny why it always seems like a long time for the soup to boil!). The herbal and tomyam soup was just as we remembered it (good!), ginger milk was unusual and kimchi was our least favourite. Nevertheless, we enjoyed the minced meat mixed with egg, fish paste, fish noodles and green tea tofu.
It wasn’t until almost the end of our meal (when our stomachs started to feel full) that we realized we had over-ordered on fishballs, crab meat balls, all kinds of balls! But never fear, with Tam Ciak and Huat Koay as our anchormen, we successfully stuffed ourselves until it felt like fishballs would fall out from our ears! Nobody could move after that, and Huat Koay was looking rounder and rounder before our eyes.
We finally got around to paying and leaving the restaurant, very full and satisfied with the buffet steamboat. A good place to go with friends to enjoy a slow no-rush meal. If you decide not to have steamboat buffet though while at Kristal Point, you can go for El Mondo Pizza, Soba Yoshi or even Chou Shun Kan BBQ.
wow.. u all really eat a lot…. hee hee
But my fren told me that he had bad impression with Flame wor…
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I went to their Bagan Jermal outlet…found they have less side dishes compared with the above.
Their speciality white noodle is a must try…looks like the laksa noodle but much fatter and very QQ..
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OMG! The food is soo nice!!
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Wah! So many dishes in the buffet? I’ve never been there for lunch before, but it seems there are less dishes in the buffet for dinner leh…
You guys are right, their kimchi really sucks :p but absolutely love the ginger milk soup. Oh ya, it seems like you guys served yourselves there? I tot the waiters will come and put the food in the pot for you?
haloo, the steamboat really tempting…:drool:
btw, the banner show buffet lunch (RM 15) is a different thing ah??
Jon
We’re BIG eaters mah.. of course eat a lot lar.. hahah
allie
maybe they have when the boss or perhaps the waiters in bad mood. Ours was okay, whatever we requested.. we got.. lucky us
ck lam
we heard of similar comment but can’t confirm that.. the white noodle, is it fish noodle, just like the one above?
clarisseteagen
Didn’t you wish you were with us then? hahhaa
Sheryl
We think the buffet dishes about the same for lunch or dinner… not much choices which is why we opted for the steamboat buffet… Our intelligence went to scout for buffet dishes and reported (normal nia lah!).. our conclusion, you know already!
jovyn
The RM15.00 nett refers to normal buffet, steamboat not included. for Additional RM8, we enjoyed much better deal!! Oh yea, if you work in Bayan Lepas (selected MNC maybe), for every 6 persons dining there, one person get to eat for free
I’m working in the same building but never try it out coz one hour is never enough for us to enjoy cukup-cukup lo. The food seems to be delicious looking at ur pics. Will go to try when my boss is not around…then i can spend 2 hours there
Ryan^83^,
yalor.. food looks delicious, taste even better… ask your boss along.. say it’s company lunch outing.. and ask your boss to pay… hahahah
Wow.. this outlet here sure provide lots of choices. Maybe it’s the location with lots of factories there. I shall try them out one day.
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Wah there are so many options see already also eyes blow out. Last time love to eat steam boat, wat ever function will go for steam boat. Now talk about steam boat already wanna vomit. Think taken too many already. However, it is a good 1, so many choices and some more the soup got yin & yang 1. Looks good.
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i think this place already closed down, pass by the place last week, taken over by a Chu Char Restaurant.