Had a $12 “ma la” steamboat buffet on Friday night with Soph and Jbb due to one of Soph’s spontaneous cravings. Not that I like steamboat for that matter cos everything just taste boiled.
What happened resulted was being sick on Sunday morning. Soph and Jbb had it worst with fever mainly cos they gobbled down the most food. Hahaha.

Anyway as Haojian will later say, “Not all $12 buffets can eat one you know“, I don’t think it was fully the restaurant’s fault.

Sure it looked dirty, but if it is the cause then everyone there will be down with food poisoning and NEA will be down on them in no time.

Thus my guess would be unhealthy steamboat practices. So here’s are some good steamboat practices that you should follow:

• Do not mix raw and cooked food together. Putting raw food and cooked food together on different sides of a plate counts too.
• Do not use the same chopsticks to throw raw food into the pot, and eat with them.
• Do not use tongs which people used to pick raw food from the buffet table to pick up the fruits.
• Do not throw uncooked food into the pot when fishing out the cooked stuff.
• Do not quick dip your beef slices and have them rare.
• Fish out cooked food only when the soup has boiled.

No prizes for guessing which weren’t followed. Haha.

I’ve a feeling we’ll be avoiding steamboats for some time now.