Mai loves her steamboat :)

I recently had a dozen of my  ‘less adventerous’ friends come over for a steamboat. When I mentioned the word steamboat to them they are all as clueless as when I mentioned Pierogi or Mate. If you are still thinking “what is steamboat”, steamboat is basically a broth soup (hours to make) that is placed in the centre of a table on top of a gas fire. The broth soup is used to cook the raw food that is scattered around the table. Steamboat is usually eaten when friends and relatives get together to catch up.

• Pierogi is a dumpling from Poland
• Mate  (yerba ma-te) is tea usually drank in South America, Brazil instead of coffee
• Steamboat is chinese style of food where you have all your raw ingredients nearby and you cook it in front of a portable stove in a pot of broth.

Here are the food I have for the steamboat:

• Different type of fish cakes
• Glass Noodle
• Homemade Wontons
• Chinese Cabbage
• Thin striped beef (designed especially for steamboat)
• Stuffed capsicums
• King Prawns
• Oysters
• Fish (Sea Bass)
• Clear chicken/seafood broth

The idea here is similar to fondue, you dip your food then you eat it :). Simple and nice. The more people the better.

Mai with bubbling steamboat

Steamboat

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