Seoul Garden @ IOI City Mall (new wing)

My colleague aka partner-in-crime invited me for a dinner after work. She was so eager to have buffet again after a few years (since lockdown).

The cheapest yet affordable buffet that we can find around the vicinity (from our office) is at IOI City Mall....

We reached there slightly after 7pm and the place was still empty. Lotsa seats available, hence we chose the one nearest to the food counter. 

But before that, we need to pay and ordered our preferred soup base. Dinner buffet priced at RM63nett per pax on a weekday. Different price range for weekday and weekend, as well as for kids & senior citizen.

For those who has no idea what sort of buffet is this, well it is a combination of steamboat and barbeque. Hence each table is equipped with stove & grill.

The food counter consists of marinated meat section (where you picked the chicken, beef, fish for barbeque), steamboat section (with lotsa seafoods available as well as fishballs/fishcakes/crabsticks/processed meat), fresh produce section (with all sorts of lettuces, mushrooms, tofu, eggs, etc to heat with the steamboat soup), ready-to-eat-dishes section (which serves fried rice, fried noodles, nuggets, deep fried finger food), salad section (which has ready-to-eat salads).

There is also desserts corner where you can have unlimited helpings of ice-cream and ais kacang/cendol.

For drinks, there are coffee, tea and all sorts of carbonated drinks available.

here are our picks...

Did our own cooking once we picked our food items.

While waiting for the food to get cooked, I had these ready-to-eat stuff as starter:

Fried rice, fried noodles (plain), nugget, potato salad, deep fried spring roll and some raw capsicum.

These are my picks for the steamboat later on...

We chose kimchi soup and creamy seafood soup.

Here are the marinated meats (chicken, fish, beef) waiting to be grilled...This is only my portion.

I only occupied 70% of the grill, whereas my colleague had the entire grill full! But we both had a second round afterwards too.

let's dig in....halfway eating and grilling the meats

we fully utilised the entire 2 hours to keep ourself occupied with eating, barbequing and cooking (steamboat).

By the time we finished, i was too full to have desserts...but nevertheless i still went to try out their ice cream.

Overall a good meal, and quite worth the price with a variety food choices.