Originally posted by mochou:
first, like Fireice said, it's more dangerous than soup.
Second, it's very unhealthy........
Third, the cost of oil is much more expensive than those "soup" in steamboat buffet.
Deep frying need to control the fire and time well, it's very easy to "chao da" outside, but inside still not cooked.
I quote myself, suggestion to change the idea to solve a few problems.
Do it in food courts like teppanyaki, one chef serve 8-12 customers. You can go a la carte buffet, or set meals like most teppanyaki.
The chef will do all the cooking, so customer wont get "shot" buy hot oil. (Dangerous problem solved)
The whole table of customer, even when new customer come, you still use that same big pot of oil. No need to change new pot of oil for every new table. (Oil cost reduced.)
Chef will know it well how strong the file should be and how long to dip it inside for each type of food.(Things will be cooked well inside out.)
Healthy problem bo bian, since oil pot sure very oily, thus unhealthy.
If you want to give customer some DIY feel, you put variety of powder/sacue/dipping at each seat, to give them more option on how their food will taste like.
Chili powder, use more than one kind, singaporean love chili.
"Jiao Yan" powder.
Chilli sacue, also supply a few type of them.
"salad" type of sacue, also a few type of them.
So the every piece of deep fried stuff will taste different based on their own preference.