Such a fun place to go with friends or family. I liked being able to choose different meats,…read morevegetables, noodles, and sauces and cook everything right at the table. The broth was flavorful and god ingredients tasted fresh. It's a nice experience when you want something interactive and different from a regular dinner ​

Didn't realize it was so long since I left a review here. Since it's been open, I've come back many…read moretimes and have tried out many other hot pot places--and I would continue to choose Soupleaf over them. They've become a well oiled machine from bringing your meat orders and drinks to the table. The quality of the produce is really top notch. They are one of the best AYCE hotpot places for sure.

Solid Szechuan hotpot place in Austin…read more Not AYCE style, which I liked, but keep in mind that sauces are extra ($5/person when we went).

This is not an AYCE hotpot place. They have a grocery type box pick up and u pay for each thing u…read morepick. It can get pricey, I ended up shelling 50$ for meats and veggies, 2 soup selections, and condiment bar. The best part was fresh shrimps and meats, almost all meat was good quality compared to frozen extreme thin sliced stuff at other hotpots. The soup base are legit af, the sichuan spicy will knock u off so beware, second one was redhot braised which according to me is better. The soup base have a lot of veggies like carrots and onions so don't waste money on those while picking. So for shrimp and meats and make most of ur time here. The sauce bar is small but again quality stuff, the suaces tasted much better than other places. Why not 5 stars, for my liking picking up and sitting and eating is a little inconvenient just want to sit an order to my liking

Why pick just one when you can have both? A pot of Q and Korean BBQ all in one spot..how…read moreconvenient! We tried both, and I'm leaning towards Korean BBQ. They had a fantastic variety of veggies and quality meats to choose from. I went with the Tom Yum for my Q pot flavor, and it was okay. Maybe next time, I'll ask them to skip the tomatoes. It throws the Tom Yum flavor off. The meat was good and the salad bar had a great selection but the food seemed a bit scarce. Perhaps because we went an hour before closing. There were still a few slices of watermelon and orange left. Be sure to try the shrimp and crawfish mix. I had attempt to go for seconds but when I came back, there was not much to get. The customer service was fantastic and very attentive. I'll definitely be back when I'm in town to give it another try..maybe a bit earlier so there's still plenty of food at the bar.

Love this place! It's not cheap and you cook your own food, but it's a ton of fun with the family…read moreand the food is really good. If you do the BBQ, be sure to order the hanger steak--it was fantastic. Also, don't forget to grab some seasoning from the toppings bar to season your BBQ. Katie was incredibly helpful and took great care of us throughout our visit. Great food, great service, and a great experience overall. We'll definitely be back!

Update August 2025: Sad day when I heard that DipDipDip was finally closing their doors. So I took…read moreone last hurrah to see if anything had changed since my visit 6 years ago. Glad to say they ended on a high note. Atmosphere: Tatsuya always nails the theming with that street Japanese style decor. This one certainly was one of the most stand outs complete with Japanese style kitchen cabinets and stylistic art. Food: If I recall the menu's did change a bit, I recall them having this flip over style but now they opted for a more simplistic one sheet style menu. With that said I ended up with the Sukiyaki, delicious. With some flank and A5 meats so I could experience all styles, this combined with the bit of truffle dipping, so so so good. Service: Per most Tatsuya places, friendly and quick service. Don't be sad it's over be happy it happened... is what I would say if I knew this is the end but it's not, because the Tatsuya staff announced they had something happening in the works, so I know this is just another chapter. Looking forward to that whatever that is.

Found this place randomly when I was trying to find a restaurant with my parents. We all ordered…read morethe multi course omakase and it was just cheap ingredients for a Japanese style hot pot where they talk your ear off for every plate that comes out. My parents barely speak English, so kind of wasn't necessary to teach us how to dip the stuff in hot water for each thing. You can upgrade to a premium plate on some of the courses which is absurd since the bill came out to be over $100 per person and we didn't order drinks!! No one should have to pay this much for boiled food. Even the normal menu was kind of over priced. The only redeeming part of this was the interior was nicely decorated to a bamboo Japanese style. But that shouldn't matter with all else.

I have accidentally become a regular at this place! I come 1-4 times a month. The team is very…read moreattentive and I love being able to freely choose what I'll be eating that day. I'm a huge fan of vegetables and feel like they have a wide enough selection that I never get bored. My favorite meats include the pork belly, pork jowl and dam-a steaks! I recently got their Tom Kha special with quail eggs and enoki mushrooms. S tier flavor. I feel like the prices are very fair and affordable for getting an all-you-can-eat buffet experience. I'll keep coming here as long as they'll have me!

Came by on a Sunday evening with a big party around 6 PM. There were people there, but it seems…read morelike you don't usually have to wait even on a weekend to get seated. We had a party of 7 and were seated in one of the private rooms with a big round table. Service was good, staff were kind and quick, quick to clear our table and keep the water refilled. Parking was easy in the plaza. This is a different setup from typical hot pot or KBBQ spots, where a waiter takes your order for specific meat cuts and side dishes. Here, everything is grab it yourself, buffet style. AYCE Dinner ($36 per person weekend price, plus tax and a 15% large party surcharge, total $47 per person) PROS: - Being all you can eat and self serve made it easy to keep grabbing what we wanted, though we were seated a bit far from the buffet area - Great selection of seafood, hot pot ingredients, fish balls, and vegetables, everything looked really fresh - Extensive sauce bar to build your own hot pot dipping sauce - Solid dessert section with ice cream, plus premade hot foods like japchae, tteokbokki, and fries, all pretty tasty - They do offer bulgogi, which was well marinated and tasted great Hot pot broths are pretty standard (tonkotsu, miso, tomato, etc.) and flavorful, though again you're cooking the same frozen meat in there, so tenderness is limited CONS: -Meat quality. Everything is frozen, so it's not the best, and the brisket in particular was a bit tough after cooking Overall, a great spot for a group get together if people are craving both hot pot and KBBQ in one place. Really good selection of hot food and dessert, my only real complaint is the meat quality. That said, $36 for a weekend all you can eat dinner is a pretty reasonable price given everything included.

*Sigh,* I don't mean this to be a knock on H-Mart or on food courts but this place has made it on…read moreMANY a list for best Korean food in Austin...I think that's more of an indictment on the Korean food scene in Austin than this place. With all that being said, the food here is serviceable. It's fine, you're getting food court Korean food so if you temper your expectations. You'll get a little a tiny amount of like two banchan. My Yookgaejang was mild-ain't no other way of putting it. You can tell that the broth wasn't cooked with gochujang so you didn't get that rich, spicy flavor. Another visit I got the bibim naengmyun and it also just didn't quite get there. Just a little on the plainer side, not just talking about the lack of heat.

Located inside HMART food court Right next to the restrooms…read moreat the far back Service was easy and quick It's rustling and bustling so it's quite loud and busy. But very convenient. We ordered the ox knee bone soup. The soup was great and had lots of meat in it! I was surprised by how many different side dishes it came with because usually food court meals come with bare minimum. I would highly recommend this place - the location is kind of hidden in comparison to the other stalls with bright signs so I can see why people end up eating the other places tha this spot.

This is definitely one of my favorite places in Austin for Asian food and soup dumplings…read more Definitely need to make a reservation because this place is small and always packed. When you arrive, everybody is so nice you give them your name and they get you seated right away. I ordered a drink called a signature tingling Daisy and it was so good. I definitely could've had so many but I was driving so you gotta pace yourself. We started off with the soup dumplings, which are just phenomenal. It's a must when you go. Also, for appetizers, we got the spicy cucumbers which were divine and a hot and sour soup, which was perfectly balanced and not watery. We also got a beef fried rice and let me tell you that rice is so soft and delicious. You literally dream about it the next day. I also got the pecking duck which is delicious there the skin is nice and crispy and the meat on it taste so good. We also got the Kung pow shrimp with cashews, which was delicious and the pieces of shrimp were gigantic. We also got the green beans which is were delicious. I love ordering green beans when they're cooked just like the ones I posted in the photo. Then for dessert, we got the chocolate mousse which is that little dog cake. I know it's so cute and they made it a little hard to eat because you feel bad in a weird sense. It was delicious now I will say when cutting it and realizing the inside had a raspberry filling, made it a little more crazy cause it looked like blood, but it was still so good. This place is definitely an awesome staple and a must visit when you're in town or just always go and have food there whether it's date night or friends catching up or anything in general even on your own.

I made a reservation for two on Resy and discovered when we got there that it was for the bar for…read moresome reason. This could have been my mistake but I don't remember any choice in the matter. The greeter wasn't very friendly and borderline surly when I asked for more details about how to not book the bar in the future. Didn't get any explanation but fortunately, we won't have to worry about that... The food was just awful. We ordered 3-4 types of dimsum (onion pancake, soup dumplings, chu shou, fried shu mae) and three entries (orange beef, eggplant and their take on ma pao tofu) for the best tasting experience. The curry sauce for the onion pancake was probably the most flavorful dish of the night sadly. The onion pancake was way way over fried-- hard as a rock. If that's their take on onion pancake... well, it's just wrong. The soup dumplings were passable but a bit doughie and the filling was full of a lot of noticeable coagulated fat -- not clear and broth-y, with light surface droplets of oil as all delicious broths. My wife enjoyed the chu shou -- I found the filling much too overcooked and tough -- difficult to eat with chop sticks. Like a tough, overcooked meatball. The fried shu Mae were just plain inedible. My wife and I each ate one and left the rest. The included sauce was basic and too heavy. And again, over fried. There was a huge delay between our apps and our mains, like 40 minutes or so. Various bar staff apologized. It wasn't a big deal, we were in a good conversation and they were super busy but our mains were not at all worth waiting for. Small portions. WAY over sauced. WAY too salty. WAY too sweet. No distinct flavors at all. The ma pao didn't seem to have any Szechuan pepper at all. How do you miss that ? The plating of the eggplant dish was really creative but I don't eat with my eyes and it came with no instruction -- my first bite was just flavorless steamed eggplant cube -- second was mixed with one note sauce. One of the better mains IMO but it was still gloopy and pretty gross. Wife did not enjoy it. The orange beef was essentially just six or seven cubes of tough, fatty beef covered in over-the-top bitter orange peel. We each had a cube and left the rest. Honestly, give me Panda Express any day over this abject failure of a restaurant. Austin needs more Chinese but if it's anything like this place, forget it. I'd rather spend a 4h round trip to Houston and go to even a mediocre Chinese restaurant than endure another meal at this place. What a waste of $165. Edit: I wish I was making this up but I literally had to pull over to throw up on the side of the road on the way home. The food did not sit well with me. I have no underlying health conditions, am not on any medicine that would have this as a side effect and only shared one beer with my wife. It was just a very, very, disappointing and gross meal.

Another good value to dollar hotpot ayce location. This restaurant focuses on meat and seafood no…read moresushi so plenty of nice cuts of meats from pork belly to beef. I ordered an extra beef ribeye vs the standard beef and to me it's worth it since you can taste the ribeye premium flavor vs a regular sliced beef. You choose your soup option flavor, I went with the spicy, you make your own sauce at the sauce bar, and good selection of vegetables and some fried foods. Seafood selection is ok, it's not a wider variety but you get 5-6 core choices. The wings are actually pretty good, fried salty wings. The vegetables are all fresh, they have quail eggs which I love, and for the price to value, it's worth it. A must try. Go support small businesses!

I recently tried hotpot for the first time and omg! Latest obsession I've been coming often…read more During the weekends there are also bone in wings, fried rice, green beans with steak and chicken curry! Recommendations: Sesame balls (I love sweet food), the crab stick by the meats in the buffet, create your own sauce (kung pao style), can't go wrong with any broth! Pork meat The staff is attentive and nice! Plus each time (3 thus far) I've gone we have been seated within a minute or two. Not too loud, it is a comfortable place with booths

We made reservations for Austin Restaurant Week and did not expect the spectacle of what was in…read morestore for us. Every step of the process was meticulously thought out and expertly executed. The specialized menu we got included 4 courses. With two people at a table we were going to share the cheese, broth, and dessert options. We also had a salad and got to pick our own proteins. We both had the lavender lemonade which was also part of the Austin Restaurant Week menu so the cost of each food/drink item we ordered was going to partially donate to the Central Texas Food Bank. Hooray for giving back to the community while trying new places! The spinach and artichoke dip was our starter. It was so fun to watch the preparation at the table. The drinks were delicious so we were already having the best time ever. After that we had a salad course and both ordered the caesar which was great. Next we got the bouillon broth and I ordered the Pacific Rim while my partner had the Land and Sea. I would choose the Pacific Rim again just for the duck, it was so tender and flavorful. There's a website that helps you time the amount of time each protein needs to cook. Every approach was incredibly thoughtful. The teriyaki sauce was the best overall in my opinion. We were very happy with the bouillon broth and also enjoyed dipping the potatoes in the creamy sauce. For dessert we had the cookies and cream. My favorite part of the meal was covering the strawberries in dark chocolate but we were so full by then I couldn't finish it all. I would come back for dessert alone. Overall it took us 2 1/2 hours and left us extremely full and satisfied.

I dropped the ball with this review, I was too excited to try this place finally that I didn't get…read moreany details on much to give a proper review so please just enjoy the pictures! One thing I can say for sure is this place was perfect! Delicious food and very cozy. Perfect for date night! Also service was excellent!

highly recommend this place for korean food. every dish we tried was yummy and will def be…read morereturning. i recommend the cheese corn, tteokbokki, tofu soup, and galbi. the kimchi rice was good but we found it a bit dry. all the portions were big but each dish is on the pricey side. the service was a little lacking as it seems like they are understaffed. they never checked up on us and we had to go up to them multiple times for when we needed spoons and more water. additionally, we were sat right next to the speaker which i get that the loud music adds to the late night bar vibe but we could barely hear each other and our ears started to hurt.

Corn Cheese 5/5 Hot, cheesy, charred flavor, creamy, sweet,…read morejuicy. Delicious! Soy Honey Chicken 4.5/5 This was crunchy, sweet and savory, fresh, and very delicious! Although I wasn't a fan of the batter, it wasn't a big deal. Good with rice and onions add freshness! Short Rib 4/5 This has a lighter flavor. The first time I went it wasn't great because it was chewy but the second time I went it was delicious! Steamed Egg 2/5 Although this was hot and soft, there was no flavor at all other than egg. I wouldn't get it again. Kimchi Pancake 4/5 This was crispy and good but it was a bit doughy and it needs more kimchi. The sauce was yummy though! I like vinegar flavors so this sauce was more salty than tangy. It also had a yummy onion flavor. Pork Belly 5/5 Although this came plain and seems like not much, it was actually very delicious! The pork belly was juicy, tender, and it had a nice fat flavor. Yang Dak 5/5 This is a very saucy, sweet, savory, and delicious dish! I enjoyed the fried rice cakes that came with it, and the sauce added so much to it! The radish was bitter but I'm not sure if there was something wrong with my tastebuds. The flavor was sweet, savory, and very gochujang. Juicy and crispy! Kimchi Stew 5/5 This kimchi stew is fresh, spicy, salty, tangy, and everything needed after a long day! Honestly, the personal serving was big and enough for 3 people. Definitely try this out! Good vibes at night, good service, not bad prices compared to nearby places, check it out!