Friends have been sharing drooling pictures of mookata and one has even embarked on a quest to find the best in Singapore. So what is mookata? It is Thai barbeque-cum-steamboat using pork lard to keep the aluminium dome-shaped centre "non-stick", with the oil from it and other barbequed items trickling into the surrounding shallow ring of water to form a sinfully flavourful broth for the steamboat. Exact opposite to what we might be more familiar with, barbequing on the hotplate (with a hole in the centre for a bowl of soup) around a hotpot in the centre. Have yet to try until it was featured in a recent The Sunday Times article, from which I shortlisted a few. Read rave reviews about MooJaa, along Keong Saik Road where Taratata Bistrot is also located, and called to reserve for two last Friday. When I tried to postpone my reservation because my dining companion could not reach in time, was told it was full. But it was not, based on our observations throughout dinner.
