I had the pleasure of going to their pre-opening event to get a feel and give my honest feedback before they opened for the Montreal community.
First of all the location is prime, right next to Concordia university it's smack downtown and the decor is modern and clean. A must stop for a unique dinning experience.
The concept is unique and different for most Montrealers, it's not your classic Italian pizza joint or Greek souvlaki it's something completely new in the downtown core. This type of cuisine is super popular in China and I'm very happy they are introducing it to Montreal. Basically you can order a preset pot or make your own. We made our own, first we chose the special sauce and then we chose our proteins: shrimp, chicken wings, octopus and bacon wrapped enoki mushrooms. We also opted for the 8$ surcharge to make it a soup afterwards and for that we chose the vermicelli noodles, broccoli and seaweed.
Now that our order was placed we waited for the server to come back and start the cooking right in front of us! It was like a show, first she put the vegetables in the pot (it's a standard premix of yummy veg). Then she laid the beautiful proteins we had chosen. They mixed the sauce and poured it over. It was quite the experience seeing your food made in front of you!
The end result was extremely tender chicken wings, juicy shrimp and the best bacon wrapped mushrooms I've ever had. The braising technique imparts to much flavour and the sharing of a pot brings a community feel and makes you engage and eat slower. I love how they added water at the end to make it a soup, it was SO tasty.
You are sharing a pot with 1-2 people so make sure you know them well or want to get to know them well haha.
It's a fun and different dinning experience for us Montrealers!