5.4.9 Shoo Loong Kan Hotpot
Avenida Dom João II Lote 1.15, Oriente
Location HERE.
It’s on the ground floor of Gare Oriente!
It’s a hotpot restaurant. What that?
OK, you get a table, and in the middle of the table is an induction hob. After selecting the two or three flavours for your hotpot, they are brought out in a large metal bowl and placed into the induction hob. You order a selection of meat, fish, and veg, which you then cook as required in the flavoured broth, which may be (for instance) tomato, beef, or maybe spicy.
The trick with the spicy broth is to leave the spicy bits when extracting the cooked food. Or what you eat will be even more spicy.
As there is one pot, and seats around it for at least four people, it follows that it’s better value when it’s a group visit. Providing you can agree on the flavours of broth in your pot.
Everything should be fresh, as you’re cooking from fresh ingredients, and cooking each portion, or indeed just a part of a portion, as you need it.
CAUTION All the flavours of broth are prepared from a pork base. If you’re not a meat eater, SAY SO before ordering.
Well situated when you’ve arrived in town by train, or even by plane, as Oriente is just down the road from the Airport. Also convenient for long distance coaches, which is where the restaurant achieved recent notoriety, after an unattended FlixBus coach rolled past the bus stands, bounced over the raised kerb into the taxi rank, and then finally embedded itself in the eatery’s front entrance. There is a YouTube video of the event (HERE).
Hence the jokes about FlixBus’ Favourite Restaurant™.
Metro and heavy rail services close by at Oriente; buses 26B, 705, 708, 725, 728, 744, 750, 759, 782 and 794 also close by.
Location HERE.
It’s on the ground floor of Gare Oriente!
It’s a hotpot restaurant. What that?
After the FlixBus visit - and still open
The trick with the spicy broth is to leave the spicy bits when extracting the cooked food. Or what you eat will be even more spicy.
As there is one pot, and seats around it for at least four people, it follows that it’s better value when it’s a group visit. Providing you can agree on the flavours of broth in your pot.
Everything should be fresh, as you’re cooking from fresh ingredients, and cooking each portion, or indeed just a part of a portion, as you need it.
CAUTION All the flavours of broth are prepared from a pork base. If you’re not a meat eater, SAY SO before ordering.
Well situated when you’ve arrived in town by train, or even by plane, as Oriente is just down the road from the Airport. Also convenient for long distance coaches, which is where the restaurant achieved recent notoriety, after an unattended FlixBus coach rolled past the bus stands, bounced over the raised kerb into the taxi rank, and then finally embedded itself in the eatery’s front entrance. There is a YouTube video of the event (HERE).
Hence the jokes about FlixBus’ Favourite Restaurant™.
Metro and heavy rail services close by at Oriente; buses 26B, 705, 708, 725, 728, 744, 750, 759, 782 and 794 also close by.
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