The Best Steam Boat in Butterworth - Zi Wei Yuan Steam Boat

Zi Wei Yuan Steam Boat (紫薇園魚頭火炭爐) – the best steam boat in Butterworth!!!!

Seriously, this is good and I have no other words to describe it. I could see people just flooding in at even 9pm, for dinner, or for supper? Customers that flooded in are driving luxury cars, … I could imagine how reputable is this place.

Many that stay in the mainland are aware of this place, now that it has spread to the island, many islanders are coming here just for steam boat. Apart from steam boat, their other specialty is fish head noodle / rice vermicelli (米粉).

The soup base is excellent and appetizing, noted that they used yam (芋頭), chicken & fish stock to cook the soup base, if you order fish head rice vermicelli, they will add on a little bit of milk. That will make the soup a entire different taste.

It’s getting difficult to find a place where they still use charcoal for steamboat apart from Goh Huat Seng in Kimberly Street, Penang. I guess this is another place where lots of people heading to. Now that with the technology improvement, many do not use charcoal but electronic stove, but with this, I guess it’s a different aroma.
They have many sets of steamboat to choose, for example the one that we ordered was fried fish head (炸魚爐), they also have Grouper (石斑魚爐) steamboat, mixed steamboat (什料爐), which I have no idea what is that.
Apart from those, you can add on other ingredient like, fish balls, meat balls, squid, quail eggs, clams, scallop, sea cucumber, mushrooms, oysters (生蠔), abalone slices, Chinese cabbage, maggi noodle, prawns, mantis prawns (攋尿虾), etc.

I must say something about the chili... it's awsome, marvelous, I believe they blended the chilies, garlics and added some lime on it, it was a good combination with those food together.... yummy yummy!!
Needless to say more, check this out and look at the mess after that? I’d enjoyed this!!!

Address & Contact Number
Zi Wei Yuan Steam Boat
紫薇園魚頭火炭爐
No. 6525, Jalan Raja Uda
12300 Butterworth
Penang
Tel: 04-331 2736 / 012-452 4741
Biz Hour: 6pm to 11pm, off every Wednesday

Flame Restaurant

What would you think of when the weather is rather cold and it's been raining for days??

I would think of steam boat, I don't know about you.

In fact, today's evening is pretty cold and lately it's been raining for days, no doubt it ain't that heavy, but drizzling. Still find steam boat could make you warm, apart from a big big hug from your love one, right?

Anyway, saying no more, if you are coming from the south to north, you would definitely see this giant signboard on your left. And that means, you've reached the 'in-place' in town - Auto City Juru.

And yes, we were heading to the Flame Steam Boat in Auto City. Flame Steam Boat actually started from Mark Cheng Ho-Nam in year 2003 in KL, heard that his first Flame was in Jalan Imbi.

Anyway, not to further on Flame's history.... guess what we have ordered and what we have taken, ok??

We have ordered the 3 person sets dinner (since we have 5 of persons for dinner), and other side dishes like vegetables, meat balls, fried fish head, fried shrimp wanton, padi frog (田鸡), siew bak choy with oyster sauce.

Since dad & mom prefers something like non-spicy soup, thus, we ordered 2 types of soup base, 1 clear soup and the other 1 is porridge.

While waiting, we were busy scooping the chili paste that we want, they have chili padi, garlic oil, blend chili paste, sambal herbi chili paste oil and green chili with vinegar.

Thank God, it didn't take a long time for them to bring the soup plus other dishes, so it was a pretty fast serving and honestly that's make a hungry customer happy.

From the pictures above, you could see us busy "steam boating", huh??

Anyway, the entire dinner was very fulfiling and it wasn't that expensive, it was about RM242 for the entire meal, of course with 4 bottles of Calsberg.

Well, do drop any steam boat restaurant whenever you feel like getting some warm, ya?? [wink]

Address & Contact
1809A Jalan Perusahaan
Highway Auto-city (Phase 3)
North-south Highway Juru Interchange
13600 Perai, Penang
Call for Reservation (+6) 04-5078422