Mia K.
Yelp
This is not a hands-on dipping hotpot but individual pots with already arranged ingredients and decent soups that just need to be brought to a boil over own individual chafing fuel fire.
Portions are filling and with 10+ ingredients in each pot, the prices here are very reasonable. Lunch is $1 less than dinner prices and comes with a drink. Love the Garlic Bean Paste Sauce at the table.
No Reservations
this popular place usually has some wait. Enter your phone number in the kiosk by the door to get in the que and wait for the text alert that your table is ready.
Choose
1. one of 10 varieties of set hotpots (can add on ingredients or do meat exchanges)
2. rice or vermicelli noodles for the hotpot
3. complimentary for lunch: cold Green or Black Sweet Tea (get a large for $1 more)
#1 House Special
napa, fermented tofu, sliced pork, enoki mushrooms, fish cake, pork balls, clam, quail egg, fried taro, pork intestine, nira, preserved veg, tomato, cilantro, peanut $15.79
#3 Korean Bean Paste
tempura, soy bean sprouts, pork belly, fish fillet, fish tofu, fish cake, lobster fish balls, nira, rice cakes, zucchini, enoki mushrooms, crown daisy $15.70
#5 Lamb Hot Soup
lamb slices, tempura, imitation crab sticks, clam, fish cake, firm tofu, fried tofu skin, vermicelli, Napa, enoki mushrooms, fried taro, mistake mushrooms, pickled green mustard greens, egg, green onion, cilantro $15.79
#10 Thai Tomato
pork slices, shrimp, cuttlefish ring, cuttlefish ball, fish fillet, clam, mussel, spam, taro stem, cabbage, corn, straw mushroom, tomato, coconut milk, cilantro $19.75
History
2004 -1st store opened in Hacienda Heights, CA in with Taiwanese hot soups
2008 -Bellevue location opens
2015 -central kitchen opens and have a soup holder patent.
Now 22 stores with the majority in CA and 5 in WA
Parking
can enter the plaza parking on 6th Ave S and get the ticket validated for 2 hours
Located
-in the Uwajimaya plaza (west side of it) on 5th Ave S between Dearborn St & Weller St