TRY THE UPPER NORTHERN’s BEST RECOGNISED MOOKATA STEAMBOAT BBQ “XIANG SHUA” RUNNING BY THE COUPLE
“Mookata Steamboat & BBQ” or local well known as the Thai Style BBQ Steamboat, which carrying the meaning of pork & pan (Mu Krata in Thai) is a kind of authentic BBQ Steamboat eatery with the combination of Korean Barbeque and Chinese Hot Pot brought into our nation and being famously practised recently by carriers on respective recipes, especially in the northern part. Here in the upper northern, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Mookata Steamboat & BBQ eating house “Xiang Shua” running by the young couple at Alor Setar, Kedah.
The Alor Setar local originated Mr. Yap Wen Cheak (born 1987), together with his Johorean wife Ms. Kelly Hoo Cay Li (born 1988) both were the founders and also the recent immediate owners of this best recommended Thai Style Mookata BBQ Steamboat restaurant “Xiang Shua Steamboat & BBQ” right in the Alor Setar township presenting all their home recipe shabu-shabu BBQ steamboat cuisine with various sided selections to the locals & visitors under a roof. Having great positive response from the market recently.
The owner Yap Wen Cheak, who at his age of 32 years old currently, was all the while been grown up in a f&b related family whose his mother been nearly half century in Chinese Pastries/Confectionery field homemade locally allowed Wen Cheak touched the career since teenage. While in year 2014, the couple Wen Cheak & Kelly Hoo returned to hometown Alor Setar from Singapore and initially stepped fully into the f&b industry helping mother, then been passed onto mother’s recipes enabled them running their very homemade chinese pastries supplies in town reached year 2017.
With their vision to have very own eating house locally, added with Wen Cheak’s interest in eatery & talent in culinary and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry. Also being chances taken in year 2018 made the couple Wen Cheak & Kelly Hoo decided then established their very first and owned local’s Thai style Mookata BBQ Steamboat “Xiang Shua Steamboat & BBQ” along Jalan Tengah, Alor Setar introducing their home recipes &fresh shabu-shabu meats and steamboat sided eateries selection to the market in better manner. Finally being recognised among the best in town by the F&B E-Media for the year 2019 in the upper northern nation at state of Kedah.
In this Xiang Shua Mookata BBQ Steamboat restaurant, the owners firstly introduced their Steamboat “Soup Base Options” of Chicken or Tomyam (on customer’s preference) which in combination taken with/surrounding the charcoal flaming BBQ Hot Pot Pan. Where their Chicken Soup prepared in about 2 hours boiled in-house and Tomyam Soup prepared in combination of chicken soup base mixed into their home recipe tomyam paste that brings exciting sour & spicy taste of eatery you should need to have a try when reached Alor Setar, Kedah.
While in the steamboat sided dishes corner, there are nearly 50 choices of selection prepared daily in the restaurant all on customer’s option taken matching to complete their mookata BBQ steamboat meals here which in categories of Fresh Meat Slices (shabu-shabu pork slices & chicken), Marinated Pork Meats (black pepper, char siew & mala spicy), Steamboat Options, Fresh Vegetables, Mushrooms and Noodles to perfect their Mookata BBQ Steamboat Cuisine here that you neither found the same nor better elsewhere in town.
For those who visit in a small group, the owners also introduced their very famous “Signature Xiang Shua Mookata BBQ Steamboat Set” which suitable for around 3 to 4 pax at reasonable pricing with a complete set of their daily prepared fresh sided dishes mixture of fresh meats, marinated meats, vegetables, steamboat options etc, all the while favourite by the visitors from the beginning that you cannot aside here.
Moreover, their special daily fresh home-sliced shabu-shabu pork slices options (Mu in Thai), taken after just a minute barbeque roasted on their authentic charcoal flaming special hot pot pan (Krata in Thai) and tipping onto sauces provided here brings excellent pork’s freshness taste of eatery and the wonderful bites texturing into mouth that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised local’s Thai style Mookata BBQ Steamboat Restaurant “Xiang Shua Steamboat & BBQ” at Alor Setar, Kedah.
XIANG SHUA STEAMBOAT & BBQ
(MOOKATA STEAMBOAT BBQ)
Address: No. 8B,
Tingkat Bawah,
Jalan Tengah,
05100 Alor Setar,
Kedah.
Business Hours: 5:30pm to 12:00am (Daily)