Jpot @ Vivo

It's one of those days that Gracie and I have cravings for steamboat and decided to just meet for lunch. Vivo is our regular lunch meeting place as it's nicely located just in between our workplace. I have been to Jpot a couple of times and I enjoy it so I decided to drag Gracie there. In fact, this is our 2nd visit there. =)

We ordered one lunch set to share and some other ala carte dishes. Lunch set consist of soup base, 1 meat (pork loin/ marinated beef), 1 vegetable, 1 rice/pho/bee hoon, handmade fishball (2), handmade prawnball (2), prawns (2), clams (2). On top of that, fatty beef, Tang O, fried prawn dumplings.

Pork, Fatty Beef

Fried Prawn Dumpling

Tang O and fried beancurd skin

Superior soup base

Pho

Reason why we both adore this place, is their fresh ingredients and customizable sauces. With a good soup base and fresh ingredients, what could go wrong?

Pork loin, being the loin, is not the melt in your mouth kind. It's more inclined to the leaner kind of meat and has a nice flavour to it. It's actually our 2nd time ordering the fatty beef, the 1st time was heavenly but 2nd time the meat seem to be lacking in flavour and abit tough. It might be due to the different parts of the meat. Because of our happy 1st time there, they are forgiven for that.

Fried beancurd skin is a MUST ORDER item there, it will soak up the soup nicely and when you bite it will fill your mouth with the heavenly juices. Word of caution, let it cool awhile before you bite else you will end up with a burnt tongue just like Gracie. Hahaha!

Just in case you're wondering, the seafood items don't come immerse in the soup, as you might have realised, we tend to act faster than our cameras, so they landed in the soup once they hit our table. Seafood tastes fresh and our 2nd time there, they replaced the clams with sotongs maybe because they run of clams.

Overall experience there is enjoyable, service are prompt with little hiccups, total spending per person for lunch is about $20 after member discount. It's under the Jumbo group and maybe that's why they emphasize on freshness and quality of ingredients. There's once my mum commented that the vegetables are abit rotten at the edges and they immediately replaced a fresh set. That's what I call good and prompt service. One thing to add is that they offer vegetarian options. Only complain, the place is always crowded during meal times so do remember to reserve early.