I visit other steamboat places regularly too, including Hai Di Lao monthly which is near my home. But I feel Longqing serves the best soup base, including their mala which has a more complex herbiness to it compared to the more single-dimensional mala at HDL (which I felt was just spicy).
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Being a friend of Longqing's owner James, @bigj_james, I've also tried all other soup base they serve - lotus root and lily bulb, pork bone clear broth, tomato soup, wild mushroom, and shark's fin melon herbal soup, and I found them to be thick and deep in flavours, and has none of the artificial flavourings.
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I also found they have several gems that you should order - Japanese flying squid ($16), handmade pork balls and fish paste ($12), and pig stomach ($9), just to name a few of my favourites.
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