Rana E.
Yelp
This is my fav place. Their broth is amazing. Very deph in flavor, and a soothing aftertaste, pleasant on it's own, which is very fun to drink at the end of the meal. My sis was starting a cold, but it got zapped away from all those herbs in their broth. Awesome comfort food. Spicy Heaven.
I bought their broth package from a grocery store that had this restaurants logo on it, and it was not the same at all. It was just the basic base :"oil, salt, fermented soy beans, berries, and chemicals", the restaurant adds a lot more herbs to their version, and you can clearly see it. I inspected a large seed in the restaurnts broth, even bit into it, and it was a eucalyptus seed, which explains why it zapped my sis's cold. They probably put in a lot of other herbs too, which is why I always feel so good after :3 I love their broth xp
A lot of fun variations in their menu, even when they've ran out of certain items. Their lotus root and cow stomach (lower/softer tripe?) are my fav items, never tried them before experimenting here xp
Their blood pudding was bland, and their baby squid was tough as well as their rice cakes because I don't know how to cook all of these lol So better order what you know about. But after looking on youtube, I'm going to try the rice cakes again, and cook them much longer.
They refill your pot with non-spicy broth (always on time for us). Since we always get the half non spicy and half spicy broth, which is usually very spicy (yet amazing), I think next time I want to try to ask for the same half divided pot, but both sides with their spicy broth so i can separate the seafood from the land meats. Their non spicy broth is good, but I prefer the fire broth cause it has a nice kick to it :) Would be nice if they could place all the large chilli peppers in a tied mesh bag though, as well as their other large seasoning pieces, so it's easier to find our smaller added items. (Fk it, I'm emailing them lol)
Like all AYCE places, they "forget" parts of our order, but after awhile, I caught on why. We order too much in one order, so it makes sense that they try to "help" out by leaving some out so that we're not stuck with force feeding ourselves so we don't get stuck with paying for left overs that we can't take home. Was annoying at first, until I actually appreciated it by the end when I would get too full to finish. It's just best to go slow and try not to order too much on each round.
They have a "make your own" diping sauce area. Not labbeled though, which is bad for me, cause I don't know what I'm doing, and made a disaster. I had to beg the waiter to make me one, and what he brought me was BOOM awesome! I tipped him extra just for that to encourage them for the next time my dumbass comes in lol or at least label it. I guess they never had a problem with labeling because the people who go there already know what everything is, since it's not knew to them.
This may be my fav place, but my family doesn't like coming here as often as I do because they don't like loosing food in the broth and having to find it. It would be nice to have a type of "net" to hold small items together so that we can stop them from overcooking easier or at least put them on scewers, I don't know. I wonder if they would let us bring our own...
Seating is comfortable, service is fast as long as the place is not full. Careful about ordering a lot, it's hard to fill the small tables, so pace yourself since you don't want to waste anyways. Suggest to save the noodles for last, to get the flavor of all the ingredients you added.
The "Buffet" station is where you get your desert, make dipping sauce, and free soft drink refils. Desert are simple crispy pastries, but good with the heated sweetened condensed milk you get to pour yourself, nothing to really brag about, just helps with digestion after. But the best round pastries run out, so I don't suggest you go late if you care for it.
Because I'm tempted to eat so much here, it's better to go early and spend the rest of the day burning off everything eaten. If you're not a big eater, 30$ is a lot of money but worth it if interested in having many diff items that are normally separated because they're expensive. This is a nice place to take your time and eat slow in, really enjoy your conversation with your peers and have fun managing the food in the hotpot.
I wish we could take the remaining broth to go home with, it's that good! But they don't allow it, probably because they rather people pay to eat there. But for someone like me who doesn't eat out often, it would have been nice, instead of them throwing it out.
I would love it if they had the stretchy type of rice cakes here! I think they can be frozen, so I'm sure they could manage it.