Sunset in a bowl

This dish is a real eye-candy, don't you think so?

look at that bright-yellow-watery-fresh-lookin' yolk surrounded by those sexy-red-ish toppings.

Are you a healthy-freak-boiling-eater? a spicy-junkie? If you are, you might wanna read this.

So there is this restaurant [kinda new, though. Been 'boiling' since April 2014] called Boiling Pot. Stated itself as a Hotsoup Speciality. They're so chinese that they use the red, bamboo visuals, and even chinese characters in their logo. the employee said the thing that differs them with another 'suki' place is that they serve theirs in a one-for-one size.

Curious? I ran over the menu and after lots of flipping pages, asking, and flipping pages, i was hesitated to choose between 7 different soup base they're offering :

1. The most healthy one [according to the waiter], with chinese herbal ingredients -> Herbal Beef Hotsoup.

2. The one that's made for a veggie-junkie -> Herbal Veggie Hotsoup.

3. The Indonesian Curry Hotsoup

4. The one that's famous for the spiciness -> Spicy Mala Hotsoup, 

5. The so-korean -> Korean Kimchi Hotsoup.

6. The red dot -> Japanese Miso Hotsoup

7. The taste of Thailand -> Seafood Tomyum Hotsoup.

They also have other chinese foods on the menu. Something like stir-fried-veggies, fried 'enoki'-, Taiwanese crispy chicken, cereap prawns, Kungpao chicken, and desserts like milk tea, etc. on the menu.

After a couple extra minutes of thinking and hesitating, I finally decided to go with the spicy one, and my friend ordered fried 'enoki'.

and here comes the waiting part.

[it's time to take some pictures of the ambience, right? XD]

still waiting. . . . . .

TADAAA...!! here comes the long-waited hottie. [it wasn't that long though] :D

The 1-serving was big enough to fill my tummy without any need of rice. It contains slices of beef, napa cabbage [sawi putih], 'shimeji' and 'enoki' mushrooms, tofu skin, white tofu, tomatoes, 'swikiaw' (shrimp-dumpling), crab-sticks, fishballs, glass noodle, and slices of scalion [daun bawang].

and that fied-enoki at the back, it was... hmm... fine. you know that seasoning powder they use on taiwanese street-food? i think they use that.

Spicy Mala Hotsoup.

For something worth idr. 52K (tax excluded) it was okay.

NO, it was actually a bit disappointing. In contrary, one of my friend said it was good. So good that he'll definitely come back. [hmm.. maybe you should try it yourself, and tell me what you think. :D]. 

just got the info, the Korean Kimchi one's a bit pricier, at idr. 57K.

You know the feeling when something don't live up your expectation? the waiter told me it was famous for being spicy, so i can't help but expecting a HOT hot. But that was an OK hot. but taste-wise, it wasn't bad. As for me, if i am to come here for the second time, i'll definitely want to try the Herbal Beef Hotsoup.

Do you see that?? that is a precious yolk! it's bottom part was completely cooked, and not that thin-raw on the top.

But you can still "slurp" that middle part. :9 YUM!

Aah.... Finished it all

check 'em out @boilingpotid

Price Range : idr. 70-85K / Person.

BOILING POT : Hotsoup Speciality

Jl. Pesanggrahan Raya 168H - Kembangan Selatan, West Jakarta, 12250

Phone : (021) 58303174

Opening Hours : 11.00 am - 10.00 pm

Facebook : Boiling Pot

Instagram : @boilingpotid

That was all, see you in the next post. :D

please check out my instagram as well @anthony.ali 

Stay Healthy, Be Blessed.

Regards,

Anthony Ali