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Alright, guess I'll begin my real Yelp journey with this review.
3.5 (3.0, plus 0.5 for service attitude)
I am long aware of my loquacity(talkativeness), since I've been battling it for years;
So here's your TL;DR summary, your Grace:
*All you can eat Hotpot(AYCE)
+food is decent, fresh and abundant, with a wide selection
+service really attentive; convenient way of ordering food
+FREE refillment of soup base with its ORIGINAL ingredients (not just adding water)
-BUT PRICEY(low $40 per person, and can easily rise above that), in comparison with other similar eateries; you may, I'm afraid, find it not quite worth every buck.
-accepts cash and Debit, but not Credit.
Recommended for you if you:
*Have no experience of Toronto hotpots before, but wish to have a safe start
OR
*Long for a better AYCE hotpot journey and do not care about spending some more bucks
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For a long, long time I am a big fan of hot pot, and especially when it is bundled with an AYCE experience - means I get a chance to claim as "eaten" as much food as my little stomach can! And that was what led me into knowing of this restaurant and finally deciding to drop by myself this Wednesday, towards sundown.
It was quite empty when I arrived; assume it was because it is already spring(not a typical Hotpot season) and it was not weekends. Nonetheless the servers did not appear to be unattentive. Seated by friendly staff and introduced to their way of ordering food. Like what others have written in their reviews, You get an IPad to place your orders by yourself for whatever makes you drool - no old-school sheet-filling with a pencil, like you do in most AYCE joints; nor do you have to ask servers to forward your order everytime you want something.
They have 5 types of soup bases available, and if requested yes you can combine two into one, making it a Yuan-Yang (in Chinese, analogically, "a couple") / Yin-Yang pot.
Now, beware: THE SOUP BASE IS THE MAIN CULPRIT BEHIND THE EXPENSIVENESS. Compared with other AYCE hotpots, which ususally set most of their soupbase prices at $3~5, this restaurant offers their two main kinds of soup at prices of $12(spicy) or $6(vegetarian), which is relatively overpriced.
If you want to save some bucks, ask for a combination of two different soup bases. It results in a reduction of price by roughly $4, not to mention that you can enjoy two flavours at the same time.
The decrease in the portion of each flavor gets compensated for by their service, upon request, of refilling your hotpot with original ingredients, FREE OF CHARGE. That is, literally, not just pouring more water into your soup, like other restaurants do. This happened to the spicy half of my YuanYang pot when it kindof lost its numbness a little.
For the part of food, you actually get a really wide selection. Most of them are AYCE items; some, such as Kobe-grade Wagyu beef, will need you to squeeze your pocket a little bit more, though. For the AYCE, their meat is freshly prepared, with other items being pretty fresh and fine. If you have had some experience of Torontonian hotpots, everything you expect to be on the menu will not elude you. If not, this can be your safe entrance into it: HPT101 - Introduction to Hotpot Eateries.
A free icecream after your meal, of course.
Ended up paying $50, after tax, plus tips(15%). I would say most of it is an enjoyable experience, only that it is too dear for me to fully embrace it.
Give it a serious shot if you'd like to march into the hotpot world at a good angle, or you just don't care about your meal being a bit pricey.
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