Steamboat At The Treasure Pot Restaurant In Ipoh

This year, we celebrated our father's birthday at the Treasure Pot Restaurant in Ipoh. The restaurant is located in the newly developed leisure zone in Ipoh Garden East - the Festival Walk. We come out with the plan to have the dinner celebration here is because we recall the smell of Sichuan's food whenever we pass by the restaurant whenever we had our dinner somewhere nearby the restaurant, and also because my father likes to have steamboat.

We order the set for six, with two types of soup - spicy and herbs. I remember it was called the Yin Yang soup in China. I have always thought that the spicy soup will taste somewhat like those I have had when I was on my business travel to Chengdu few years back due to the smell, but to my disappointment, it was not. The spicy soup was not all that bad, it is just that I was hoping some Sichuan style spicy soup. The good thing about it is that since the spicy soup is slightly localized, I'm pretty sure the level of the spiciness might just suit most locals. 

We also ordered a side dish - the "Kam Heong La La" - which is a type of shellfish stir fried in dry chilies. Lala or the shellfish fish is quite commonly cook in this way especially from Chinese chefs. The "Kam Heong La La" is mouth watering from just the look of it and taste good and the portion that we had is bigger than the one we usually had in Gourmet Square, and considering the environment and price we pay for it, I would say the "Kam Heong La La" from the Treasure Pot Restaurant worth every penny that we pay compare to Gourmet Square.

The steamboat session was great and I would say that the meat that we ordered ranging from chickens, beef and pork were fresh. Even the fishballs and meatballs are fresh. One thing we need to notice while having steamboat especially if one order beef is that one shall not cook beef for too long and let the beef meat inside the soup for long because the meat will harden and then it will be hard to chew; usually what we will do is we dip the meat for a while and then have the beef while it is still boiling hot. It taste great this way, actually and that is part of the fun thing about steamboat.

Overall, I'll say that Treasure Pot steamboat is good, with fresh meat and vegetables and I think a lot of local will like the spicy soup even as the Sichuan spicy soup is already localized - although some might still find it too spicy with lots of booby trap (the Szechuan pepper) which might makes the lips and tongue numb. Price tag is ranging from aboout RM30 per person excluding tax.


Treasure Pot Restaurant
2-21， Jalan Medan Ipoh 1, Festival Walk, Medan Ipoh Bistari, 31400 Ipoh, Perak.