[JB, MALAYSIA] This is one claypot dish that I am willing to queue for an hour plus for.

Dai Tao Lala Pot is probably familiar to most people, looking at the enormous queue of roughly 50 people that doesn't seem to end! We had the signature lala pot with a couple of seafood ingredients and vegetables and we left absolutely satisfied.

The 1kg worth of fresh clams were stir fried in very hot oil under a charcoal flame first, before soup is poured in. This gives the soup an iconic smoky flavour, coupled with the natural sweetness from the clams. I believe there was some shaoxing wine as well, hence the slight alcoholic flavour too. The soup was incredibly flavourful and I'm so glad that it is refillable! The other ingredients that we ordered, such as tiger prawns and handmade prawn balls were very fresh as well. The handmade prawn balls were also one of the highlights, as it was made up of almost completely minced prawn meat.

Queueing up for the lala pot isn't too much of a hassle, as seats and cold sweetened tea was provided for everyone. Service seems to be very prompt as well, as they regularly came by to refill our claypot with soup.

We spent a total of RM143 for 2 pax, which is actually really affordable considering the amount of seafood we ate. This is one comforting dish I can see why people are so willing to queue up for!