La Bao Tian is a newly opened personal barbecue and hotpot buffet restaurant with personal size grilled fish, chef cooked ready to eat food such as mala crawfish, steamed to order juicy xiao long bao and more than 80 types of ingredients for their dinner buffet.
At La Bao Tian, every buffet diner gets their own set of either single or dual hotpot and a bbq grill plate. You can order some of the ingredients off their menu and they will be served to your table like an ala carte buffet. Most of the shabu shabu meat needs to be order via their menu as they are sliced to order. For hotpot there are various lean and fatty cuts of shabu shabu beef, pork and sliced lamb rolls.
La Bao Tian menu has a total of 87 ingredients for dinner and 62 ingredients for lunch buffet. For dinner buffet, there are more variety of seafood such as slipper lobster, crawfish and more.
You can also pick and choose the rest of the ingredients from their display chiller. You can get various seafood, carbs, vegetables, surimi and marinated meats here for dinner buffet. For dinner buffet, if you are heading there in groups of more than 4 pax, you can try to make a reservation at La Bao Tian Clementi via their contact number 91496368, although walk-in is also available.
The seafood available for dinner are honeyed sotong rings, flower crabs, slipper lobster, scallop, prawn, white dory fish, black mussel, Asari clam, rocket squid and scallop meat(hotate). The lunch buffet at only $18.80+ for adults, is value for money and the seafood variety is lesser compared to the dinner spread.
Here is La Bao Tian review after trying their dinner buffet. This all you can eat seafood and meat buffet is value for money for lunch buffet starting at only $18.80+ for adult. Since it is a personal hotpot and bbq hotplate grill, you can enjoy this even on your own or with a group of colleagues or friends with each personal customised soup base.
There are 8 choices for soup bases such as spicy beef butter soup, spicy mala, sour and spicy golden soup, Thai style tom yam soup, tomato soup, pig trotter soup, fresh mushroom soup and herbal chicken soup. The chef recommendation is their spicy mala soup and pig trotter soup, a good balance of the savoury flavours with a comforting soup base. Soup is add on at $2.80+ for single soup and $4.80+ for dual soup pot.
They also have condiments, snacks, DIY cold noodles, DIY pita wrap, liang cai appetiser of the day, finger food, steamed rice and ready to eat chef cooked food counter. Get your satay sauce, grounded Chinese style bbq spices, sesame sauce, chilli oil, condensed milk and more here to power up your bbq meats and seafood.
For dinner buffet, you also get to enjoy stir fried crawfish in a beer base mala sauce. This is a chef cooked ready to eat dish at their condiment counter and included in this buffet. The head butter of the crawfish and the sweet morsel of meat infused with savoury saline kick and an undertone of sweet malt beer is addictive.
For dinner buffet, you can also redeem 1 set of Sichuan grilled fish in a personal size tray. Put this grilled fish dish over the grilled plate and wait for it to simmer, before enjoying it. The savoury spicy sauce with this lightly pan grilled fish makes it a joy to eat. You can also cook some carbs in this sauce after you finish the fish, such as glass noodles to soak up this spicy mala style sauce goodness.
You can also grill various thicker cut of meats such as pork belly, American beef, Australian wagyu, lamb and chicken on the personal grill plate like teppanyaki buffet style. These plates are very hot and cook the meat quickly.
La Bao Tian Hotpot BBQ is located at 321 Clementi Mall and is a popular and affordable dining spot for students and residents at Clementi. Clean and bright interiors with cosy seating and quick service from their service crew. There are booth seating with tables for larger groups along the sides of the restaurant and tables for couples as well. Every table is also equipped with suction fans to remove some of the hotpot and bbq fumes if any.
Here are some of the seafood we picked from the display chiller for our bbq buffet needs. Our top picks are slipper lobsters, half shelled scallops, prawns, crawfish and black mussels. They also have some mini snack like crispy rice crackers, bbq flavours crackers for you to munch on while you grill these seafood.
For flower crab fans, grill them in various sauce such as in chilli sauce, Chinese bbq garlic sauce or customise your own sauce from their condiments counter. You can even hotpot them in your mala soup base for that spicy mala flavoured crab. These crabs are known for their delicate sweet meat.
With so much variety of ingredients in this buffet, you will be spoilt for choice. They also have some special baked eggs in tin foil, cheese grilled corn, you tiao Chinese fried dough stick, handmade dumplings and xiao long bao which you can feast on. Do not forget to get their popsicles after your meal to cool down after this hearty hotpot bbq feast. We love the coconut flavour popsicles with bits of chewy nata de coco recommended by their service crew.
La bao Tian Hotpot BBQ buffet at 321 Clementi Mall is a great place for lunch and dinner buffet with affordable and fair prices for adults, students, children and even 30% off for senior citizens. If you love a personal set of hotpot and bbq grill plate, do give this a try.
Address of La Bao Tian Hotpot BBQ buffet:
321 Clementi Ave 3, #01-09/10/11, S129905
For reservation, pls call: 9149 6368
Price of Buffet:
Mon- Fri Lunch (last order and payment at 4pm)
Adult $18.80+
Student $15.80+
Child $12.80+
Mon-Fri Dinner
Adult $28.80+
Student $25.80+
Child $18.80+
Saturday, Sunday, Eve and PH
Adult $28.80+
Student $25.80+
Child $18.80+
Child below 4 eats free
Senior citizens enjoy 30% off buffet price.
Note: Weekday lunch buffet -smaller variety of seafood & meats.
Add on Hotpot soup (8 flavours)
Single 2.80+
Double 4.80+
Add on Sauces & condiments at $2 per pax
10 % Service charge is applicable, no GST currently.
Dine in time: 90 mins
Opening hours:
Mon to Sun – 11.00am to 12 midnight Daily
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