Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery

For the past eight years, the monastery had been offering vegetarian steamboat during chinese new year festive season. For this year, it was offering a package called Ji Xiang Vegetarian Steamboat 吉祥素食火锅 at S$168 per table which included Vegetarian Steamboat 素食火锅 with Vegetarian Yu Sheng 素食愉生 and could serve up to 8 persons. This package was available from 21 Jan 2017 to 11 Feb 2017 except 24 Jan & 30 Jan 2017.
Dining slots : 9.30am - 11.15am, 11.30am - 1.15pm
Please call the hotline 6849 5333 to reserve the package.
Meal would be served at Ven Hong Choon Memorial Hall, Level 2, Dining Hall.

It was easy to find our table in the huge dining hall as the table had signage of the name of the person who reserved it on it. There were staffs around to assist us in finding the table. We were served hot ginger tea when seated.

We started the meal with vegetarian yusheng. It was a refreshing although it was a tab drier than the usual version.

Next we had the steamboat which was filled with assorted vegetables such as bean curd puff, dried bean curd, cabbage and taro in it. We also had plates of tofu, black fungus, glass noodle (Tang Hoon), wantons, mock meatballs, mock fishballs, mock crab meatballs, golden mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, xiao bai chai, and cai xin to add into the already full steamboat.
The soup base was very flavourful and light. It was made with juice left from the mushrooms and the shredded vegetables used in the yusheng, which was why the soup was naturally sweet.

The staffs around were helpful in clearing the excess cutlery and refilling the soup base. The food were more then enough for 8 adults. But if that was enough, there was porridge, mee sua and mee siam available too at the counter.