Had steamboat for Father's Day at my home. My brother-in -law joined us for dinner. First time trying to make this cuisine. Prepared the stock - tom yam soup and chicken soup. Actually there is no fixed recipe .... I made the soup just by boiling:
Chicken Soup:
chicken bones (the backbone part) + about 4 litres water + 2 inches
ginger (sliced) + 4 pips of garlic + 1 carrot (cut into cubes) + 2
tomatoes (cut into cubes) + salt to taste & a dash of pepper.
Tom Yam Soup:
All the above ingredients as for chicken soup. Just add after boiling
for 1/2 an hour:- 2 tbsp of tomyam paste + 3 stalks of serai, crushed + 4
leaves of limau purut + 1 bunga kantan.
Now to enjoy the steamboat:
Place
your electric steamboat pot with the stock in the centre of the table,
then follow these steps when you're ready to have your meal:
Step 1 : Bring the stock to a gentle simmer in your electric steamboat pot.
Step 2 :
Arrange the raw meat, seafood like prawns, fishcakes and vegetables on
separate plates around the
steamboat.
Step 3 :
Add a few raw ingredients to the stock at a time, then use chopsticks
or slotted spoons to transfer the cooked ingredients to serving bowls
to eat with dipping
sauces.
Step 4 :
At the end of the meal, crack an egg into the stock, if desired, then
enjoy the enriched stock as a soup and have it with noodles.
