Vinh M.
Yelp
Here you get dim sum, hot pot AND KBBQ all in one place, and in AYCE fashion too! Too bad I came during dinnertime around 5pm on a Friday and didn't get any dim sum for this review... or I just didn't see it when I was walking around the sauce bar :(
My group of 4 got seated really fast since the place was virtually empty when we got in, though it filled up almost completely by the time we were finished eating. There's tons of tables strewn about, and K-pop was playing in the background, mostly music from TWICE. Each person gets their own hot pot and grill in front of them, and you order anything you want through a tablet, while you grab your sauces and desserts up at a self-serve bar near the back. I remember this place used to be another hot pot place, or my memory's just foggy since I don't really hit up this stretch of Chinatown very often. At the start, we all got to choose a flavor of slushie. While all my friends chose strawberry (they all said theirs was good), I got the Coke slushie, which was essentially Coke in slush form which I was pretty satisfied with.
We got a variety of meats - lamb, chicken, pork belly and sausages, most of which were for our hot pots - and veggies - cabbage, enoki mushrooms, regular mushrooms, kimchi, and others. Most meats we got were for our hotpots, with only two of them being solely for the grill. As for soup bases, I got the regular house special beef soup base along with another friend, and my other two friends got their spicy mala soup base. That base made a mess of my linen shirt but I guess that's how you know they're seriously delicious, and how spicy works with almost anything here. Personal non-meat favorites were the lotus root (fresh and crunchy), the crab sticks (which fell apart easily but was tender) and enoki mushrooms. All this came to about $40 per person, which is on the pricier end but we were all full and made it worth our money. General meat quality was nothing eye-opening but it works.
This is Chinatown, so parking is a doozy; street parking is advised but is hard to come across especially during peak hours. I'll come back at a later time to get their dim sum, vanilla soft serve and some of their other sides.