Hornbill's Corner Cafe

Hornbill's Corner Cafe is a popular steamboat eatery. The steamboat at this place is not just the soup bowl kind, but the type with a hot grill flanking it, as is the norm nowadays.

I went there with six other friends for dinner and I liked the buffet style food layout where you take a plate and pile it up with whatever strikes your fancy from the many food option areas:

There's a seafood counter with whole fishes in a variety of marinates as well as other seafood fare like cuttlefish, squid, clams, crabs etc.

The meat counter has beef, lamb, chicken, pork and other more esoteric fare like liver, gizzards and so forth.

There's also all kinds of balls, pardon the unsavory association.

There's even a vegetable counter where all sorts of greens are available. There's also fruits like watermelon. I was surprised at the sheer options this eating establishment provides.

The requisite sauces are also provided, as well as butter for cooking on the hot plates. There's also spare utensils for the clumsy ones amongst us...I swear I dropped my chopsticks four times that night...

Finally, there's also an ice cream bar where you can something sweet to finish off your meal.

This place is usually very packed and business is very brisk...food gets eaten at a rapid rate and it's only replenished several times before they close for the night. The way it operates is that your plate is tabulated transparently when you go to the food counters and you get billed at the end of the meal.

What I mean by this is that, it's not a buffet ie eat all you can for a set price, but rather, a self service steamboat where the waiters unobtrusively adds to your bill when you stock up on food. I find that this is a good system because all this is done transparently. [Edit: My mistake, this establishment is a buffet style bbq steamboat for a set price.]

I loved the place, the ambience is wonderful and the food is great. Do try their marinated whole fish. It's delicious!

The crabs are good too. Steamboat and beer...mmm...

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

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