We went here for Valentine's Day dinner yesterday. I have wanted to try out this place for a while since the location is so convenient for me.
iCook Buffet is an all-you-can-eat hotpot restaurant. Where it differs from all the other chinese hotpot places is that each person gets their own small hotpot bowl and instead of checking items off a menu, you go up and pick your own food items/drinks. This is very useful for those who find it difficult to decide what to select on a menu as you're not sure what it is and don't want to waste it. The individual hotpot allows you to eat by yourself here as some hotpot places require at least 2 people.
You'll start off with your selection of soup base/broth (chicken soup, fish soup, vegetable soup were free, the rest of the specialty soups add extra $). We picked the chicken soup and fish soup, but were unsure which was the fish soup as neither looked like fish soup to me. I only tasted MSG in both.
These small hotpot bowls heat up very quickly. The food selection was alright, not as big selection as some of the other places. Also some of the foods were not labeled, and some we didn't know how to cook it so we didn't pick it (there was fish in a plastic bag that I later learned you cook it with the bag). Also they only had fountain drinks (pop, nestea ice tea, water) and not the asian drinks found in other hot pot places (plum juice/chrysanthemum tea). They also had dessert which you help yourself to (mango sago pudding and sweet tofu pudding).
We found this place not as "yeet hay" as some of the other hotpot places. Not sure if it's because of the smaller hotpot bowls.
Also there is a 10% service charge automatically put on your bill. So no need to tip extra. The menu says there is a 1.5 hr time limit but we were there for 2 hours without a problem.
Overall a great place to try out if you are into hotpot, or just looking for a new buffet experience!