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| - One of my favourite hot pot places downtown! Chine is all individual pots, they have a great menu, sauce selection, and a variety of broths.
The food (4/5): I've had 3 broths here: mushroom, black chicken, 3 ingredient. All the broths I've had have a very distinctive taste so definitely worth trying them all out. In terms of the menu its pretty extensive and will happily fulfill any hot pot customers taste. From the many variety of meats, vegetables, noodles, and other sides you can't go wrong here. They'll give you exactly what you order so be careful ordering 10 lambs and 10 beef knowing you're only 4 people lol. The sauce station is my favourite as its all laid out pretty neatly for you to pick, choose, and experiment. However, the sauce station does get alittle hectic when the places is packed.
Price (3.5/5): like many other hot pot places, there is a set price and then you add on extra for the broth. On weekdays its $23.99 + ~$2-$3 for broth. On Fridays and weekends expect the set price to be $2 more. I wouldn't say this was cheap, but it's pretty standard for hot pot nowadays.
Service (3.5/5): Hit or miss depending on when you go. From M-Th the restaurant isn't packed so you'll always have the servers attention. However from F-Sun it'll definitely be harder. I'd suggest coming with a Chinese friend because it's much easier to communicate with the servers that way lol. Food comes in pretty quick tbh, then later on you won't be able to keep up haha. Overall the service here isn't anything short of what you'd find at any restaurant along Spadina.
Ambience (4/5): Chine fairly clean, and its great that they've got an roll out shelf to hold extra food for larger groups. Some of the booth seats may feel cheap, but the restaurant itself has got decent seating capacity and clean enough for my liking.
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