Flame Steamboat Restaurant @ Krystal Point

We had our team dinner at Flame after our newly merged team's FTF (also last year)... hmm.. somehow we seem to like dining at Krystal Point? I wonder why.... *think location location location* - hint : Krystal Point is just 5 minutes away from our office.

I personally do not like steamboats, for simple reasons of...

1. why should I pay and having to cook the food all by myself?

2. I am paying more than an average rate for people to pour my soup and also supply me with raw food :|

3. if there it is a combo steamboat i.e. soup + BBQ on the same stove, I'm even more inclined as the BBQ-ing never fails to inflict oil on me! And our whole body, hair, clothings carry all the food smell all through the night (if you're having dinner that is)

Enough of that, nevertheless, we went for it since it was funded and the team wanted to go for it :)

The interior...
Table setting..
Condiments... (1st row L-R) ginger with finely grinded chili, chili sauce (2nd row L-R) chili padis, stir-fried garlic in oil (3rd row L-R) 2 types of sweet pastes
Condiments for own consumption neatly arranged in the saucer ;)
We were so hungry that we ordered some ala carte dishes to ease our growling stomachs first..

Taiwanese sausages
Asparagus with mushrooms
The stove
We ordered the double soup base of Super Spicy 'Ma La' and one very neutral chicken porridge and this is the 'before' shot when it came..
These were the raw food that we're supposed to cook ourselves

Top tier.. Variety of meat - chicken, pork, fish; lower tier... dumplings, green noodles
Assorted varieties of mushrooms, beancurd skin and big-sized prawns
And the soup base 'after' shot
To finish the night, we had dessert too - mango pudding - *ahhhh... pudding.. one of my faves!*

In all, Flame is just another steamboat restaurant which comes with an higher-than-average price tag, but of course this is coming from a somewhat anti-steamboat person so it's definitely biased :P anyhow, the dishes were all not too bad, and the atmosphere was ok. One thing that we didn't like was the time it took just to have the raw food ready and the soup base served - waaaay too long.