We were both feeling for hot pot for a while and decided to try out celebrity hot pot after work on a Monday. We left work fairly early and ended up going to eat around 4:45pm when it was not busy at all.
I have never eaten out for hotpot before so I was interested to see what the hype was about. We were seated right away and had he menu explained to us. There were two menus; one for the choice of broth, and the other for items to cook in the broth. We were also told about their free self-serve drink, as well as a sauce station with a good number of ingredients to make your own hot pot sauce. I just went with water and some garlic hot pepper sauce.
We ordered slices of chicken, beef, sausages, beef and fish balls, seafood tray, instant and vermicelli noodles steamed rice and some random veggies. Honestly it wasn't bad, but there was nothing amazing about the food. They did forget to bring us our rice and vermicelli...so we had to remind them.
Overall the food was just like any other hot pot. I think next time I crave hot pot I will do it at home with friends versus going out and spending $24 per person after tax for AYCE.