Famous Hot Pot Buffet

I just had dinner there with my parents and the building reminded me of when I lived in China. I think it was all the neon lighting. This place is huge. It’s like there’s a North side and a South side. We sat at a table that had individual pot spaces! I’ve never seen this before –but it’s a really good idea since my Mom is allergic to shrimp. So having 1 big pot would be bad for her since everyone else loves eating shrimp. They have a sauce bar with lots of different kinds for you to mix yourself (sesame, oyster, soy, peanut butter, scallions, garlic and more). The only thing that needs to be changed is the dessert bar. There’s definitely room for different kinds of dessert, but sadly they only had canned peaches, canned lychees, fermenting watermelon, and some dessert soups. It would be better if they had desserts like the kind in a buffet?

Don’t ever go there! I saw two roaches! Very disgusting. A person who looked like the manager did not even care about our complaint. I was told this wasn’t the first time they found roaches in their food.

Hotpot only here. Unlimited hotpot with limited selections (special items are extra) — there are no individual dishes here. They do open later than their regular store — sign on Labor Day had them opening at 2pm.

Actually haven’t had their hotpot yet… almost did on my birthday, but it was too crowded so we went to the one on 8^th with the ram on the sign. have had some of there dishes though. they do fuqi feipian pretty well and there was cold cumber dish that was good, also the lao hu cai (tiger vegetable). the space is cute too!

this place is on the corner of 59^th street and ft hamilton parkway
all you can eat for $ 18 DOES NOT include fish balls, this is extra, u kidding me? it does have a large selection of veggies and meats, can’t complain too much, the price is actually $ 20 for the weekend but we were charged the weekday price of $ 18, for some reason i think we ordered extra stuff but they didn’t charge us :)
the broth was decent, if you want the spicy one, be sure to have some milk next to you or a similar drink cuz its a good offset of the hot stuff so u’re tongue won’t be burning like fire
we went early but it gets packed at about 7, don’t know how clean the things were cuz i had a tummy ache when i went home

This place is definitely worse than what I have experience at Hottest 86. The quality of meat is terrible and I hate the fact that there is less selections in the menu. There is either spicy pot (which is wayy too spicy) and the non-​spicy one (which is wayy too bland). The waitress messed up the order and gave us fish instead of chicken and glass noodle instead of ramen. How can she possibly get that wrong? There isn’t much to choose from anyway. The lamb was disgusting and came in an ice block. The clams were gritty with sand. The ‘special beef’ was nothing special. The chicken wings were mostly bone. The crabs had very little meat (they gave mostly the legs which has the least amount of meat). ALSO they have no drinks selection. Where is the bubble tea? My boyfriend has severe diarrhea the next day and I left the place unsatisfied. I can’t believe they charge extra for things that are available in other hotpot buffet places. Besides the cheap menu and quality, I hated the table we were sitting in. It was so cramped and small that if the person in front of us bumped into our scalding hot pot, I will severely burn myself. Never again.

Did they change the name of this restaurant? We used this address on Unilocal to get there and the place was actually called SPICY HOTPOT or something like that…
All you can eat hot pot for $ 17/​person was a trick they played on us… most of the things we usually order at other all-​you-​can-​eat-​hotpot places were only available if we pay extra…

Unlimited hotpot for $ 17 per person for 2 hours! This place is good for groups. And you get, from their menu:
Choose your favorite Pot
— Spicy red oil pot
— Half and half pot (we got this and the broth was just so tasty)
— Delicious broth pot
Choice of Meat
— Sliced beef
— Sliced lamb
— Sliced chicken
— Fish filet
— House special beef
— Chinese bacon
— Canned ham
— Shrimp
— Beef triple
— Duck kidney
— Meat ball
— Chicken wings
— Red tofu (blood)
Choice of Veggie
— Corn
— Agaric
— Dry tofu
— Potato
— Lotus roots
— Cabbage
— Bean tip
— Spinach
— Eggplant
— Shanghai cabbage
— Seaweed knot
— Tofu
— Frozen tofu
— Fried tofu
— Sweet potato noodle
— Instant noodle
— Radish
— Lettuce
— Baby Pumpkin
— Chinese lettuce
Choice of Sauce
— Garlic oil
— Sesame furu
— XO shacha soy sauce
They have more ingredients to add on but those will be additional. It’s more than enough food as you can see the list above. Very casual place and it gets pack by 7 PM. I went at 6 PM and there was barely anyone.

A very good hotpot buffet. This place has about 8 to 10 tables, and their hotpot is better than all the ones on Flushing. Reasonably priced with a 2 hour dinning limit.