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| - Not a bad place for lunch as long as you are not in a hurry. You need to boil all of your food so it takes a while. Just waiting for the "soup" to boil seems to take forever.
Here is the basic process. You go to coolers and get little foam containers which each contain small portions of various raw foods. You bring those back and cook them on a wok full of liquid what has flavor added to it. You have two halves so you can decide to have half spicy half regular. You add the raw items and wait for the water to boil and then you guess if it's cooked long enough. Most of it cooks very fast because it's mostly seafood. There is also a really wide selection of sauces you can select while your first food is boiling. This place is not for people who have trouble with basic cooking just from a food safety perspective. There is risk of cross contamination from mixing utensils and raw ingredients.
The selection of food is actually quite impressive as is the possible combinations of sauces. I was there for lunch which is about $16. I understand they do some different things on a different station at night, Lunch section included various vegetables, tofu, dumplings, noodles, pork, beef, liver, raw eggs, crab leg clusters, clams, squid, octopus, salmon, salmon belly, white fish could be tilapia, mussels, and probably a few more I forgot.
In all it's a good meal. I can see this could take forever if 4 people were sharing one cooker. The staff seemed really disengaged and barely interacted with customers, but they were quite attentive. They brought you anything you needed. They took away the dishes. Service was totally acceptable. I'll go back again.
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