I'd been wanting to try this place for a while and decided our Valentine's Day date was a good time. We never go out to eat on Feb 14, but usually choose a random date during the month of Feb to celebrate the "holiday". I'm glad we chose a different date and made a reservation because I didn't realize how small this place is! Everything went well with our reservation, seated very quickly exactly as expected. The smallness of the place is actually really nice but it means you need to plan ahead and have a reservation. They suggested getting a reservation a week in advance if you want to come on a weekend.
Each seat has a hot pot built in to the area in front of it. You get a bowl of broth and you are to cook you veggies in there and then cook your chosen meat in it. Really fun! Kind if like fondue but better. I really liked the experience of the meal, just really fun and something different than the usual.
After doing this once, I recommend to dump all the veggies into the broth at once and let those cook because they really flavor the broth as they cook. When you've cooked them a bit, then start cooking the meat. As we found out, the broth gets more flavorful as the meal goes on so you want your meat to get all the flavor from those veggies as you can.
The portion sizes are perfect. I had the seafood and my hubs had the beef. Along with the small place of 5 spice chicken we got - was the perfect amount of food.
By the end of the meal the star is the broth. I still had my udon noodles in the bowl so I just scooped out all the broth I could from the hot pot and put it right over those noodles and started slurping those things up. So delicious and so perfect for a cold night.
Basically, I can't wait to come back and try this place again. Next time I might try the vegetarian portion and just focus on that broth/noodles at the end.