Whilst waiting for the kway chap, I couldn't help but be intrigued by the stall next door, One Pot, and returned at night to check them out.

At night, the food centre is kinda transformed. Everyone is here for one thing only - One Pot's hotpot and it kinda reminds me of the steamboat restaurants in the pre-developed Marina Bay area where you sit in the open in the sweltering heat enjoying the piping hot steamboat.

One Pot serves restaurant-style hot pot in a hawker setting. You start by ordering a base set based on the number of pax. There is also a wide variety of other ingredients to add on (which can add up rather quickly).

The ingredients are then beautifully served in a Japanese-style wooden box and you can see that much care has been taken to choose the freshest ingredients - no yellowing vegetables etc. They also have an in-house meat slicer to ensure that you get the freshest slices of meat.

The base set is about $15-20 per pax and the add-ons can be a little pricey. That said, we felt that the quality of the ingredients do justify the price and it would cost more in a restaurant. But theres something idyllic and romantic about having steamboat in this old school food centre where time seem to have come to a complete standstill.