WG Hai Di Lao

Steamboat for two pax at the very popular Hai Di Lao at Pavilion Elite. My friend who is a pro at eating steamboat says we could just fill up two partitions with soup and the other two partitions with hot water so that the price will be for two types of broth instead of four types so for the broth, it is MYR 10++ (10% service charge and 6% SST = MYR 11.60 nett) per broth so for two types, the price is MYR 23.20 nett. My friend selected the tomato broth and I selected the milk broth though I cannot taste the milk in the broth, more like herbal soup though the colour of the broth is milky white.

The receipt is in Chinese as per their Franchise HQ is using Chinese. So this is the list of food we ordered:
1. 2 types of soup MYR 20++
2. Hand pulled noodles MYR 9++
3. Half portion of pork belly MYR 14++
4. Half portion of beef slices MYR 19++ (this is my order as my friend does not eat beef)
5. Half portion of Tong Ho vegetable MYR 9++
6. Half portion of sweet corn MYR 7++
7. Half portion of lotus root MYR 10++
For this list, the total costs is MYR 102 nett.
We did not choose to have drinks which includes free flow of some small bites which is MYR 8++ per pax if I am not mistaken.

This is the waiting area for customers to enjoy cold drinks and packs of snacks while in the queue. Lucky for us, it was a short wait of about 20 minutes where I managed to eat one packet of snacks.

The view of the center skylight of Pavilion Mall.

Hai Di Lao Hot Pot at Pavilion Elite, KL.

Wanted to eat here but it was not opened. Or perhaps it is opened by appointment only, I am not sure.

That evening, we went to a neighbourhood bak kut teh stall that we have not been for at least 3 years but the seller still remembers us as we used to eat there quite often. This claypot of bak kut teh for 1 pax and 1 rice costs about MYR 17.

WG Wagyu More

We went to Wagyu More, the Gardens Mall to celebrate a friend's 27 birthday. We selected the weekday set lunch option of just one single plate of meat with unlimited vegetables (buffet style) at MYR 28.80++ (MYR 33.40 nett) and we were given just one hour for our meal. I have expressed how I feel about steamboat and hotpot meals during my previous lunch session at Sukishi, Starling Mall back in 2018.

They also have this Cooked-To-Order option at just MYR 15.80++ (MYR 18.32 nett) but we did not choose this option.

They have single soup pots or two types of soup in one pot and we chose to have single soup pots. I selected Kombu soup (seaweed soup) whereas my friend chose spicy pork bone soup.

My single meat plate has 4 very, very, very thin slices of beef.

The Kombu soup turned murky after I put the beef slices inside the soup.

We can help ourselves to a few stations in the restaurant: raw vegetables, drinks, ice cream soft serve, cooked food, salad and dessert sections. This is the salad and desserts station.

I tried these 3 cakes: matcha, is it corn or mango, and yam cakes. Passable.

We are reminded that there is a penalty for unfinished food that we have taken from the various stations so please don't waste food.

Wagyu More restaurant at the Gardens Mall which started business here on 31 Aug 2018, Friday last year.

Summary of options available.

There are 8 types of soup base to chose from: pork bone, sukiyaki, spicy pork bone, japanese curry, kombu (seaweed), tomato, kimchi and miso.

My friend chose US Pork Loin and I chose Australian Beef Chuck Roll because it is less fatty than Australian Beef Brisket.

These meats are for the Premium Buffets which are way more expensive at above MYR 100 nett per person.

After lunch, we bought one small cute bunny cake at MYR 15.30 nett for our friend from The Garden Chateraise bakery.

There is a cute panda which we did not buy that is made of white chocolate mousse, chocolate sauce, marshmallow, fresh cream and chocolate sponge cake.

Cute bunny is delicious my friend says. I guess she likes to eat strawberry fresh cream, chocolate, strawberry mousse, pistolet chocolate, strawberry sauce, marshmallow, fresh cream and vanilla sponge cake. Wiki says pistolet which literally means "little pistol" is a typical Brussels variety of small, round bread roll with a soft inside and hard, crispy crust.

Bunny or Panda for you?

Total bill for 4 pax is MYR 133.65 nett for the Steamboat / Shabu Shabu lunch with an extra MYR 15.30 nett for the cute bunny cake so it is MYR 49.65 nett per pax as the 3 of us gave our friend a birthday treat.