Zi Wei Yuan Steamboat - Butterworth, Penang

Steamboat also known as hot pot, is a dish where you heat a big bowl of broth at the center of the dinning table until it's boiling and put all types of ingredients into the pot to cook. The cooked food is usually eaten with a dipping sauce.

Majority of the steamboat restaurant used the electric hot pot. However, what so special about this Zi Wei Yuan Steamboat restaurant is they used the tradisional coal-heated steamboat. Small pieces of coal were placed in the center of the donut-shaped bowl and there's a mini fan placed at the bottom of the bowl to keep the coal burning.

You get to choose either the fried fish steamboat or grouper fish steamboat:-

Fried fish steamboat (price: RM35, RM45 or RM65) or Grouper fish steamboat (price: RM40, RM50 or RM75)

We choose the fried fish steamboat and it came with fried fish, cabbage, yam, seaweeds and bean curd. You can order additional side dishes such as  big prawns, mantis prawns, sea cucumber, fish maw, fresh oyster, scallops, abalone slices, squid, cuttlefish, fish balls, pork balls, vegetable balls, pig's belly, intestine, kidney, tendon, sliced meat, all types of mushrooms such as dried, button, straw, golden and abalone mushrooms, black fungus, yam, seaweed, bean curd, spinach, cabbage, instant noodles, vermicelli and quail eggs to top up with your steamboat dish.

We only add 2 items which were the quail eggs and fish balls. The  fish balls were good. Besides that I love the natural sweetness of the fish broth and the fish were really fresh.

Zi Wei Yuan Steamboat



Restaurant ambience

Charcoal steamboat



Charcoal



Mini fan



Fried fish steamboat - RM35



Quail eggs - RM4



Fish balls - RM3



Sauce

Address:
Zi Wei Yuan Steamboat
6526 & 6527, Jalan Raja Uda,
12300 Butterworth,
Penang
Tel: 04-331 2736
H/P: 012-452 4741
Business hour: 6pm ~ 11pm
Close on every Wednesday