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If you're unfamiliar with hot pot, basically you order uncooked food to cook in a broth at your table. And you eat the food with sauce that you make yourself. This place is pretty authentic Chongqing hot pot! And it's delicious!
I went with two other people for lunch on a Saturday. We did the all you can eat option.
For the first person who is eating hot pot, it's $30, and for every subsequent person it's $20.
The attached photo shows everything that we ordered, and I'll just comment here on the things that I recommend and the things that I would avoid. If I don't comment on them I'm this review, I would say it was good, but nothing to write home (yelp) about.
GET THESE:
Tianxia fried meat: fried pork strips, eat them while their hot, you won't be able to stop. This comes cooked from the kitchen; you don't need to cook it yourself.
The pork belly: the best meat they have for the hot pot! I could not get enough of it!
Bean curd sticks: thin pieces of bean curd, really soft and good for dipping into sauces.
Bone and mushroom broth: I'm sure there are other broth a that are tasty, but this one was great!
DO NOT GET THESE:
Australian Lamb: lamb has a certain taste to it; some people describe it as gamey. I think their lam is too gamey. I am not a fan.
Shrimp dumpling: I've bought better shrimp dumplings frozen from the super market than the ones I got here. No matter how long we cooked them, they were hard and not tasty.
Portions are pretty generous. For the meats we got about 10 thin slices per order.
As for service, I feel like al the wait staff were very attentive; our food came quickly, and our waters and broth were refilled at regular intervals.
As with many AYCE places, they have a 2 hour time limit and charge you for not finishing your food. Two hours is definitely enough time to eat til you're full. And we had a few pieces of the lamb left, but they didn't charge us.
Overall, good experience, good food. Will probably come back.
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