At the Farmland Steamboat Restaurant, what strikes you at the first spoonful of steamboat porridge is the curious and naturally sweet blend of flavours from the medley of meat and seafood. Everyone may have tried the regular steamboat at some point, but porridge steamboat is something new.
       Farmland Steamboat Restaurant is located along Jalan Pudu. If you travel along Jalan Pudu from Pudu Jail, it is the row of shops on your left right before a Caltex station. The front of the shop faces Jalan Pudu itself so it will be a little difficult to find parking there. Whether you’re coming from Pudu or the other direction, it is advisable to turn in at the Caltex t-junction, take the firs left turn and hang two more lefts to get to the alleyway behind the shop where there are numerous parking lots. Parking is free at night.
       Farmland Steamboat as the name suggests serves steamboat, with a twist. A typical steamboat usually uses clear soup or stock as its base. There are alternatives such as Tomyam and herbal stock, but its most always soup. In addition to the usual clear soup and tomyam, Farmland serves up a third alternative, porridge(粥底火锅) (congee, gruel, etc. Take your pick of alternative nouns). The major difference in porridge based steamboat and the other types was the distinct lack of taste in the plain porridge base. This, however, is excellent if you have very good raw ingredients, like pamphlet fish, crabs, or fresh prawns; the plain base would not obscure the natural taste and sweetness of the ingredients like how a tom yam soup would.