When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

When the exams get tougher, the hungrier I get. In the midst of exam preparation, I escaped back all the way to Penang and here I am again, bringing to you the very best of Penang food.

Last edition of my food galore featured the Dim Sum feast in Ipoh. How about some steamboat dinner this time?

It has becoming more and more trendy with steamboat restaurants everywhere promoting the eat-all-you-can style. Not for this case, this unique restaurant brings you back to the old-school style of the traditional steamboat.

Zi Wei Yuan Steamboat Restaurant is the name. From my knowledge, steamboat is actually a local cuisine of the native of Fuzhou clan. It can be seen here that the steamboat itself is not power by gas stove, instead the traditional charcoal method is being utilized. This actually makes the soup more tasty and brings out the real taste of steamboat by convention (if you get what I mean here). Try cooking for yourself by using gas stove and compare it by cooking similar food by using charcoal powered stove… you’ll probably understand the art of charcoal fire.

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