crystal jade's xiao long bao and steamboat buffet

I've heard soo much about this buffet and today i finally had a chance to try it for myself on a date with C and G

There are three slots you can choose from, 5pm, 7pm and 10pm. For weekends, its 25++ for the  5pm and 7pm slot and 21++ for 10pm slot. It's 2 dollars cheaper on weekdays. It's quite hard to get a slot, so book early if you wanna go!

First they let you choose a soup base! we picked a hot and spicy soup and a pork bone soup

the soup is super delicious. omgoodness!!! so yummy!!! i thought the hot and spicy one was really a bit too hot but my friends loved it more than the pork bone soup.

free flow of lots of ingredients except each person is only allowed 100g of prawns! everything was really fresh. and i lovedddd the sliced pork.

the beef was surprisingly not nice. haha, it was too much fat, too little meat.

we also ordered 3 baskets of xiao long baos. i can't believe we didn't eat more, but the steamboat was too good to ignore, even for xiao long bao

the sweetcorn is delicious, i dont usually eat corn boiled, but this corn is crunchy and very sweet and tasty!

yum yum!!! so much food cooking inside!!!

i think it was a really good meal, it justifies the many rave reviews i've heard about it. only thing is that we should have gone for a weekday buffet instead. no point paying extra for weekends when we can do weekdays haha. and we dont eat prawns or a lot of meat, so would have been good to go with some prawn lovers who can have our prawns haha

oh and it's not conducive for talking and chatting, it's super noisy in there!!! haha more like for a happy gathering kinda thing

 and don't wear white!!! cos we're bound to spill something on our clothes!!!

so full and happy with food! (:


and my tickets to christchurch are booked for 27th july -20 august! gotta work very hard to complete all the necessary ground work before i go there, so that i can complete all the necessary field work in time.

lovelove!