Coca

Coca restaurant is a well known steamboat restaurant, which origins from Bangkok, Thailand. It offers Thai-​style ‘Suki’ steamboat dining. It has 3 outlets in Singapore, with the RWS and Kallang serving ala carte buffet. Today I am visiting the Kallang outlet with a friend for lunch. The place is stylish looking with 2 private rooms. Reservations is recommended for big groups especially when there is only 3 big round tables in the main dining room.
The buffet lunch costs $ 27++/adult and $ 20++/child. The restaurant also offers buffet dinner at $ 43.80++/adult and $ 25++/ child. As I have the entertainer mobile application, I will be using the 1-​for-​1 buffet lunch promotion at this restaurant. The buffet style is to tick the items for the steamboat and pass the form to the staff. The staff will serves the dishes all on a big tray, setup next to the table. One can do this as many times as you want. While making our order, the staff also tells about 1-​for-​1 promotion for soursop drink ($ 6++). It is thick and fruity with lots of the fruit in it, but a bit too sweet which we solve it by adding more ice cubes.
The choices of soup are Tom Yum soup and Clear Chicken soup which are pre-​served on the table. Each of us is served the signature COCA sauce, the spicy dipping sauce to complement the meal. The food is served on the tray with some wrapped with clear sheet. For the first round, the staff also assists by putting the items into the hotpot. We could see how skillful he is by the way he scraps the fish glue 鱼滑 off the paper, after a few times with the hot chicken soup over it. However I notice that this service is done when the restaurant is not too crowded.
The vegetables and seafood which are served are quite fresh. The sliced fish 鱼片 is quite meaty. I also try the Garlic Rice 蒜蓉炒饭 which smells quite good when served. It looks like normal fried rice, but tastes not bad.
Overall the food is good. Service is not bad too, with extra chair placed next to me to put my bag. Soup is refilled often. Although the restaurant is packed it is easy to get the staffs’ attention. Actually I am quite surprised that the restaurant is packed especially it looks quite quiet the last few times when I walk past the place. No wonder the staff asks if I have reservation. Do remember that there is a $ 0.50++ per wet tissue charge.