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| - I've had my fair share of hot pot before, hell I worked at a shabu shabu restaurant in the past so it's safe to say I have pretty high standards when it comes to hot pot. Though I do acknowledge the differences when it comes down to it.
YZ's is a bit confusing, it has Taiwanese/Chinese style hotpot but sell Yakitori and show cases decor that is Japanese. I ordered the Spicy Beef Hot Pot with Ponzu sauce and a side of quail eggs.
The hot pot broth was indeed spicy, came with 50% cabbage, enoki mushrooms, 3 slices of beef, imitation crab, clear noodles, tofu. The side order of quail eggs was a joke, there was only 3 and were oddly hard and rubbery in texture. Other than spicy, the broth was bland. The ponzu sauce was overly garlicky and was spicy due to it's rawness and didn't accent the flavors of the hot pot. To be honest, the items in the hot pot didn't taste fresh and my flame went out 5 minutes into eating.
The service is spotty, had to waive down the waitresses a couple of times and didn't really recommend anything or mentioned what they served at YZ.
For $12, I left unsatisfied and they had included an automatic gratuity which had caused some confusion. Since they had an optional addition of tip below that auto gratuity, I'd rather decide if I'd like to tip a certain percentage or not.
Would skip on the hot pot here and probably order some skewers or other tapas instead.
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