Just Acia

Guess what?  We had been harping about Hotpot Culture being a value-for-money set at $8.50+++ with an individual hotpot, a piece of deep-fried chicken chop and 1 single (tiny) scoop of ice-cream.

Well, we found Just Acia and we're ditching Hotpot Culture.  For good!!!

Check out their link!

Starting from $5.90+++ you can get very good set meals (with ample portions of meat for carnivores like me) and free flow of ice-cream (they have one ice-cream fridge with at least 6 flavours at any one time), cappucino, hot chocolate and soft drinks!  Hotpot Culture loses out big time because for all Hotpot Cultures' set meals, you get measly bits of meat and tons of fake foods like crabsticks, fish balls and beancurd skins.

Since Tin Hang Zai agreed to let me try this place, we've been hooked!

Hotpot Culture

Some months ago, we wandered to Marina Square in search of a cheap and comforting meal and found this place.  

For $8.50+++ or so, you get 

• a mini-steamboat for yourself, with a dish of vegetables and a selection of your choice of meat / protein
  
• a side dish of fried breaded chicken about 3/4 the size of my palm, 
• and a tiny lettuce salad
• and a scoop of ice-cream.

You can choose the flavour of the steamboat (chicken, tom yam, herbal and something else which I can't remember), and you can choose between seafood / pork / beef / chicken for the meat.

What can get better than that?  You can also choose different dipping sauces - they have plain soy sauce, chilli sauce and some minced garlic, chilli padi, spring onions and coriander for you to choose from.  

What a steal compared to Coca!  (which we used to frequent before I found out I was allergic to the sesame in their sauces!