| rev:text
| - Location: in the "Chatime plaza" -- best way to describe the plaza and exactly the whereabouts of this restaurant entrance. It is right next to the Chatime and makes it a very convenient stop after Hot Pot to grab a drink after.
Parking: Don't worry about parking. We came here on a Friday evening and didn't have any issues.
Atmosphere: Small sized hot pot restaurant and enough to fit 8-10 small tables of 4 seats. Probably best to make reservations first if you are trying to come with a large group. We came with a party of 8 on a random Friday night and they did their best to accommodate us in such a short time frame. Although we sat at 2 separate tables of 4, we were lucky to be seated. There was a lineup waiting outside after.
Service; I would say that the staff was very attentive. We simply filled out our order on a paper menu/place mat. The order just consists of check marked boxes for the choices of soup broth, the type of ingredients, any drinks to add on or other special items that is charged different than the basic menu price.
We had personal hot pot with the gas burners. The staff helped set it up and refill the butane tank if empty. They always came around to check if we needed to fill/top up with more soup broth. They came around to help refill water as well.
I would say that the service was quite good.
They also took into account our 20% discount b/c we showed that we wer part of the MARKHAM FOOD on instagram.
FOOD: I selected the spicy signature broth. The soup was very red in colour and the flavours were quite good in the beginning. After cooking and eating longer, I began to feel like it was too salty. I was given the mixing ingredients to make my sauce but found that I didn't need to use ANY AT ALL b/c the broth had so much flavour. I didn't enjoy the "NUMBING" sensation in my mouth when I accidently bit into the peppers. I can't imagine what the other broth selection that has 4 pepper EXTRA SPICY would taste like.
In comparison to the other orders at the table, the pork bone broth seemed to be better for a more simply flavour. After having too much of the spicy broth, I got tired of cooking my food with that flavour and instead used my hubby's hot pot instead. Some friends said the pork bone was "TOO MILD and tasteless"... hmm I guess not everyone can be satisfied.
I selected the basic $12.99 ingredients. It only had 7 pieces of beef, a big bowl of my choice of noodles (I chose vermicelli), a piece of shrimp, 2 bean curd, 2 fried tofu, 2 pieces of lotus root and some cabbage and lettuce. Surprisingly, it seemed like so little at first... but as I kept eating, I was quite full already.
I can't say that it was that yummy though.
At least the price was not too costly. But I rather have other HOT POT.
I liked the idea of personalized hotpot, but did not enjoy my broth.
Thank you for your service though. You guys were wonderful and attentive.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)