
Get interesting bases like curry beef soup, elderly tonic soup and even a male vitality soup perfect for Valentine’s Day, or go for classic favourites like beauty soup and spicy soup for a guaranteed good time. Their affordable prices, variety of ingredients and soup bases, coupled with (wait for it) free-flowing servings of xiao long bao, is a killer combo that’s hard to resist. This long-time Chinatown haunt has many loyal fans, and we can see why. Craving those delicious Korean appetisers? Just add kimchi, Korean pancake and its signature Korean chicken wings. They are accompanied by fresh ingredients perfect for dip-cooking in the hearty broths. Choose from a variety of soup bases such as the locally inspired Pepper Bakuteh, Ginseng and Beauty Collagen soups.

The first hotpot concept in Singapore to boast a Korean twist, GoroGoro Steamboat & Korean Buffet offers the best of both worlds by serving both local and Korean delicacies.
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Promise you’ll leave on a full stomach as desserts are on the table too. Unlike its ground floor counterpart that only offers the regular menu, the second floor sees banquettes and booth seats that can occupy parties of steamboat lovers as well as servers dishing out trays filled with baskets of vegetables, tofu, speciality dumplings, seafood and shabu shabu cuts. If an ala carte hotpot buffet boasting free-flow soup dumplings sounds enticing to you, then head down to Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao at Holland Village to enjoy their reservations-only Xiao Long Bao & Steamboat Buffet. Diners can even indulge in premium choices such as the Lobster Buffet and Hua Diao Chicken Phoenix Pot. Enjoy an array of fresh seafood ingredients such as Fish Glue, Shrimp Paste and Handmade Dumplings, alongside generous meat offerings and seasonal vegetables. Coca SteamboatĪs a Thai-Chinese hotpot restaurant, Coca Steamboat perfectly marries authentic Thai cuisine with traditional elements of Cantonese-style cooking. They don’t use any MSG in their soups too, which is a big plus. It’s popular with the CBD crowd, thanks to its central location at One Raffles Place and the convenient sets that cater to small groups. Everyone gets their own pot here, so there’s no need to fuss over which broths to go for (great for saliva conscious people too). Choose from 12 different soup bases like bak kut teh, prawn, kimchi and tom yum. With Jpot gone, we find this to be the best local hotpot restaurant in town. Legend has it the waiting list requires a month’s notice when you call in.


Promised within the flavourful broths is shark’s cartilage boiled for more than eight hours daily, completed by a full menu of fresh ingredients and homemade offerings-like the melt-in-your-mouth fish tofu that can surely rival Haidilao’s.

Unlike its competitors, Beauty In The Pot has just two nourishing soup bases but it’s a case of quality over quantity here. Ladies come a-flocking for the famed collagen broths at this hotpot concept by Paradise Group. Call it what you want-steamboat, hotpot, shabu shabu-but this communal way of devouring ingredients like seafood, sliced meat, leafy vegetables and a myriad of other eats in a simmering bowl of stock in the middle of the table continues to be one of the top pastimes in Singapore. Here’s where to get your fill.
