2.5 Star
The cooked food (deep fried mantou, skewers, takoyaki and dessert fondue) was surprisingly quite good and even better honestly than their hot pot offerings.
Meat was not the best, didn't have much of the ingredients natural flavour? Not that much variety on the menu to choose from either. For broth, My friends picked soy milk which was really thick and took long to boil, was not like a soup at all, and not that great tasting. Others had the miso one which was a bit sour from too much miso and salty. I had the mushroom one which was fine but likely due to it just being chicken broth base.. or that is what it tastes like anyway. So all in all the soups did not help with the taste.
The sauce station was regular like others and good.
Main gripe about the place is how anal they are about their bday promotion. Staff have no idea what the policy is and kept having to go ask the manager and come back and forth. I went on Thursday and my friend's bday was the upcoming Tuesday. It's only 4 days away, within a week .... but they said it had to be within the ACTUAL calendar work week for the bday person to have a free meal . Seems quite lame. Did however get the 15% off for entire bill and they allowed us to split bill and pay on credit card individually (shockingly).
Overall I prefer morals village and that would have been my top choice but figured to try this place out since reviews were good + the discount potential.