Chinatown hotpot restaurant serves up ingredients you can pick off a conveyor belt

Time to book a table.

Mandy How | September 29, 2017, 05:09 PM

Conveyor belts in food establishments are commonly associated with sushi, but a new hotpot restaurant in town is here to shift that paradigm.

Opened in September 2017, 食尚捞 (Shi Shang Lao), or Steamov, says it is Singapore's first Chinese hotpot whose ingredients are served using a conveyor belt.

The restaurant can seat around 200 dining customers and offers more than 100 ingredients, 10 soup bases, and 20 types of drinks.

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Their soup bases can also come in individual pots (S$5), which means no more need to compromise when dining in a group. 

Various skewers of meat on satay sticks start from S$1 per stick, including chicken satay, squid ink balls, vegetables, sausages, fishballs, luncheon meat and the like. You can even pick up fruits from the conveyor belt. 

Slightly pricier food trundles past on metal skewers priced at S$3 each, and includes seafood like salmon and prawns.

There are also shabu shabu (thinly sliced meat originally used in Japanese hotpot) plates that can be ordered separately, and we hear the portions are real generous:

A plate of beef goes for S$10, while chicken rolls and pork belly are priced at S$8 per plate.

And as with all respectable hotpot restaurants, Steamov has a condiment station with a decent variety of chilli sauces.

Come Monday (Oct. 2), they will even have portable power banks for rent, with prices as low as S$1 for a 24-hour block and a S$10 deposit. 

It might get a little crowded, so you're best advised to call 88580543 for reservations before heading down. 

Where to find it: 325 New Bridge Road, Singapore 088760

When to go: Mon - Sun, 11am - 4am

 

All images from Steamov's Facebook page.