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| - I've haven't been to the Regency for such a long time 'cos parking was always a problem. We parked at the back as the restaurant suggested but for dinner on a weekend. The trick is to wait till 5 p.m. so that you get the evening rate of $4/- and then the restaurant will validate your 1/2 of the parking receipt (the other half is in your car) and you get back $4!
This past Saturday evening we decided to try Regency and celebrate almost the end of Chinese New Year celebrations with a nice hotpot dinner. Regency has hotpot deals for adults $21.95 per person. Check out their website.
Their all-you-can-eat hotpot comes with a choice of 2 soups in a divided metal pot on a propane burner if your table has 4 or more persons. If there is less than 4 persons, you only get a choice of 1 soup. The soup could be a clear broth soup or a spicy one. We opted for clear broth soups - Chinese Wine & Herb and Chicken and Ham broths.
Next, you get your raw food items from the designated buffet sections. One section is all raw food itmes like beef, lamb, pork, chicken, fish, fishballs, beefballs, prawn balls, oysters, mussels, squid, congealed pork blood, pork liver, pork kidney and prawns dressed and undressed. On a separate table by the wall, you have your noodles or all kinds, mushrooms - enoki, shitake, tofu, fish cake, vegetables - tong oh, spinach, romaine lettuce, watercress, beancurds, black fungus and more fishballs. Also, there's a selection of sauces for you to choose from. Don't forget the preserved bean curd sauce (fu yee) for your lamb - in fact, it goes great with everthing! [There is also uncooked eggs for you; some Chinese like to put raw egg into their bowl and put whatever sauce and beat up the egg. Once the item is cooked in the soup, they will dunk it in the egg sauce and let it cool the food off and then eat it. I don't do that. Or you can be inventive with the egg in the soup...]
Now, comes the meal itself. You sit at your table with the soup on high boil and you toss your raw food items into the soup and wait for it to cook. You then fish out your food with your trusty little steel net! Or if you don't want your food item to run away when you're waiting, just put your food item into the net and leave it in the hot soup to cook. It'll be there waiting for you. Dunk your hot food item into the sauce and let it cool for a bit and just munch away!
BTW, the price of the hotpot deal also grants you access to the cooked food buffet on the other 2 aisles. The dessert is the best - all the wonderful Chinese hot and cold dessert soups.
We waited till 8 p.m. to leave the restaurant as there was a contest for the hotpot goers. Free dinner if your receipt is pulled up. Nope, we didn't win...maybe next time. :o)
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