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| - I LOVE hot pot. It was my favourite thing to do when I was a kid. We'd set up our pots and all the food we were going to make. This was all at home, before the invention of places like this.
This was my first time going to a hot pot place in which each person had their own individual pot to cook in, instead of the communal pot. I do believe that this trend started right after SARS hit. It never made a difference to me since I always went with my family but clearly it came in handy when going out with my fellow Yelpers.
We waited for approximately 10 minutes, which wasn't bad for a party of 6. While we waited they gave us the menu to tick off what we wanted to order so we could sit and have our order placed immediately. There was a bit of disorganization after we sat down as we should have gotten our pots first to start boiling the water and then have the food come. But we ended up getting our food with no pots to cook them in, uh hello water needs time to boil.
Another thing was that there were drinks on the menu that we could tick off but found out much later that drinks were serve yourself and the menu clearly stated that there was hot tea, I did not see any hot tea and I think that you had to ask for it but what's the point of having a beverage station then?
As always, you get to go up and make your own sauce. Allergy sufferers beware, there is peanut sauce in the sauce bar and well, let's just say that sometimes people use the cutlery for more than one thing. And cilantro lovers/haters there is raw cilantro and you will get a whiff of it as you pass.
If you've never been to hot pot, it's quite simple. Order food (meats: beef, lamb, pork; veggies: napa, spinach, watercrest...), put food in to boiling water, wait for it to cook, take it out of boiling water, add your special 'homemade' sauce and devour. It is all you can eat and there is no extra cost if you don't finish everything.
The service was ok, there were many times when I would look up and not see a server in our area and had to wait to wave someone down but it was busy in there. There were some funny misspellings like "Spinash" for spinach, the rest of the night it was called spinash and I do believe I will be calling it that for the rest of my life.
Reminder: don't wear nice clothing unless you want your dry cleaning bill to be high, I left my jacket in the car which isn't smart for the 2 degree weather but it was for the sake of my nostrils for the rest of the night.
They need to get better ventilation in there but hey, maybe they have a great one but people just keep cooking up a storm. Just don't go in here freshly showered with nice clothing on that you will be wearing out.
All in all a great time had with great friends. Definitely will take my parents here one night, but I do miss the communal ones as it lets my laziness creep in while my mother makes my food and feeds me.
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