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| - Here it is. A rare 5-star review from me. I do them, but not often.
So, we've seen several YouTube videos about hot pot and we've been wanting to try it for some time, but there are no HotPot places that we know of in our area. Visiting family in Urbana gave us a chance to visit Hot Pot Lab and we were not at all disappointed!
My wife and I shared an ingredient bowl and got the meat lovers which had a lot in it. I have an allergy to mushroom so they were able to modify our bowl to reflect that.
The broths that we selected were the Tonic Tomato and the Szechwan Spicy Broth with the level 2 spice.
The meat lovers bowl had beef, lamb, nappa cabbage, hot dogs, spam, and meatballs as well as seafood balls.
We also got an extra side of meatballs for checking in on Instagram, so those were free. I also have always wanted to try lotus flower root, so we got that too. Those are amazing. Love the crunch, but they take the flavor of the sauces.
Because of my allergy, they took out the mushrooms and added udon noodles, glass noodles and potatoes.
The sauces are on a rolling cart where you can build your own concoction or just keep it stock. I used the sesame sauce which had an almost peanut flavor.
The way this place is set up, each setting at the tables have their own burner with controls on the table face.
Out comes your broth in a small stock pot and a bowl with your ingredients.
You get your broth boiling then start putting your ingredients in to the stock.
Everything from there is pretty standard. You cook your ingredients and enjoy!
I have to say that this place is really good, our service was awesome and everything is clean and in place. Even the restrooms are clean. They are single use restrooms with locks.
Overall, very very very good. Highly recommended.
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