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| - Coming into the place, I honestly didn't have much expectations, as fellow Yelpers haven't had tooo much great things to comment about.
The ambiance and decor was great. A mesh of current and vintage Taiwan pop culture.
The service for me was actually pretty good, it was dinner and fairly busy, yet the servers would come around a lot and ask if our hotpot needed to add soup or add fuel to our fire. We were asked various times, how was the food etc.
I agree with my fellow Yelpers that the menus are HUGE.
The food was not too bad. Well I guess maybe what we ordered was ok. Probably cause my friend had visited before and did the ordering.
We ordered the seafood cheese hotpot, pork jowl donburi and Taiwanese popcorn chicken.
We all got a pot of their brown sugar longan and ginger black tea.
The hotpot was actually quite tasty. Using a cream based soup with tons of veggies, tofu, some frozen seafood (not super impressed with the seafood, but I'll get to that in a bit) bonito flakes and a little bit of processed cheese.
The soup overall was nice and was very much like the soup base that you would find in a mussel dish. The addition of the bonito flakes gave it a very nice smoky flavour. The seafood seemed to be the frozen kind, while large in size had very little flavour to it's meat. They served it all in a small wok like pot over a blue brick of fuel. The servers would come around to ask if we needed to add soup to the pot or they would replace the brick when they walked by and noticed that the fire was out (which I can appreciate instead of having to constantly wave someone down to do it).
The hotpot also came with a half of a thing of instant noodles.
The donburi was...eh ok. The rice and sauce was fairly bland and the egg that's usually on top of the meat was kind of a poached style egg in the corner of the bowl. The saving grace to this dish was the pork jowl itself. The pork was very well marinated. Not too salty.
The popcorn chicken was a bit of a disappointment, I mean this is a staple in most Taiwanese restaurants. It reminded me of westernized popcorn chicken. Taiwanese style should have more seasoning, the one we got was more like fried pieces of chicken.
The tea was wonderful! Not too sweet with the addition of the ginger. Served hot and on a metal rack with a tea light to keep it hot.
Overall experience wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Would I come again, well not a hard no but not something I would be itching to go to a lot.
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