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| - At $12.99, this is as cheap as it's going to get for AYCE hot pot. But as you can guess, the quality of the food is not the best. If you're looking for the best value for hot pot, this is definitely THE place to go. If you want higher quality food, go somewhere else. Don't get me wrong, the food is edible and very delicious. Each person gets 1 free plum drink.
The Menu:
Fatty beef defines a typical hot pot experience. They also have chicken, pork and lamb for meats. They have various dumplings, vegetables, tofu, and noodles. The menu selection is pretty standard.
The Place/set up:
I actually like the flexibility of making my own soup base. This way, I can't blame the restaurant for poor seasoning and it saves the restaurant time. Most importantly, I can make the soup as strong/mild as I want. Don't worry, they have recipes if you don't know what to use.
The Food:
This is where I can start to list some flaws with certain items, though most of them were decent. The beef is not as fatty as I'd like. But it's still delicious. The chicken was fine. Didn't get pork or lamb. The various balls (fish, squid, beef) were fine. I really liked the home made squid balls.
The biggest problem was with the dumplings. The so called shrimp dumpling was stuffed with a lot of ground pork. I understand shrimp is more expensive and you can save $$$ this way, but that doesn't explain why the chive dumpling also had pork inside. I thought chive is cheaper?
The fried fritter was terrible. It was fried maybe 2-3 hours ago. It was hard. Not edible.
There were only 2 of us and they serving of vegetables was too much. They used a basket and filled it up.
Overall:
Like most Chinese places, don't expect much in terms of service. They also screwed up our order once by adding rice cake to our order of udon. But at such a good price, all these can be overlooked. Just don't overlook your bill because they include gratuity in the bill. Recommended if you want value.
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