RECOMMENDED: Xiao Fei Yang Steamboat, Damansara Utama

If like SG foodie, you like spicy food then when it comes to steamboat, you'd likely choose the China's Ma-la steamboat soup. In Singapore, Chongqing steamboat is one of the more popular places serving Ma-la steamboat and in KL, Xiao Fei Yang is somewhat similar except a little more sophiscated since it's a sit-down serviced restaurant instead of take-your-own-meats/vegs buffet.

Xiao Fei Yang has a KL restaurant and one in Damansara Utama. Instead of braving the traffic into KL city, SG foodie visited the Damansara Utama branch. Upon being seated, you'll realise that each set of utensils are glad-wrapped and sealed (supposedly sterilised and wrapped) which remains SG foodie of how restaurant in China that does the exact same thing. SG foodie ordered the half-half soup base (ma-la soup on one side and herbal soup on the other). See the multitude of garlic cloves and other spices floating about in both of the soup? Ample proof that the soups are brewed for hours and you can truly taste the difference! SG foodie absolutely loved the soups - both the spicy and non-spicy ones.

Ordering a variety of meats (beef slices, pork slices, mutton slices, fresh mutton, special handmade pork balls, special handmade fishballs, mushrooms, etc), SG foodie was more than ready to tuck in and the foods were served very shortly with the foods on a convenient trollie-tray, giving you more room on the table. SG foodie highly recommends the sliced mutton that were soft and succulent while the fresh mutton were a little tougher. The sliced beef and pork were good too. The special meatballs and fishballs held little minced meat surprises within them and were delightful to eat.

Of course this place is recommended on cooler/rainy days rather than on super-hot, humid days - although the restaurant is air-conditioned, the hot boiling soup from the steamboat centred tables (speaking of which, the tables are all manufactured for this purpose where you can't see/feel the gas canister) give off a lot of heat.