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| - We heard about this place on Yelp, so being big fans of hot pot, we headed down to Chandler to check it out.
The first thing that strikes you walking in is the very pleasant atmosphere. It feels more like a chill-out lounge than a Chinese restaurant, with nice colored mood lighting and some mid-period Bjork on the sound system. This is much nicer than the typical Chandler ethnic restaurant and more of a "date place."
You are given a small paper menu (like a sushi menu) to tick off your selections on. You pick the type of liquid that you'd like (we opted for the Yin Yang) and then you select your ingredients.
We had Tong-O (a peppery green), pea shoots, oysters, several kinds of mushrooms, shrimp, bean curd skin, pork blood, rib eye, beef tongue and firm tofu. Everything was quite delicious.
Service was excellent and attentive and the owner stopped by at least three times to make sure we were happy.
We really liked the place and will definitely be back. My only criticism would be that the portions were a bit skimpy for the price. I would suggest either increasing the portion size or decreasing the price.
Our beef tongue order, for example, consisted of two paper thin slices of beef tongue, basically one bite, for four dollars. That's a bit light, particularly for an offal product. An order of soba noodles is less than one cup, which just seems a bit silly.
It ends up working out to $20 per person for a very light meal and that's a bit steep for Chandler. But since they've only been open for 16 days, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on the portion issue.
Dinner for three with no alcohol was $60 including tip.
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