This spot has a pretty unique and fun concept. You grab a bowl and make your way down a wall of fresh (and some not-so-fresh) ingredients, customizing your bowl just the way you like it. From veggies to proteins to noodles of all kinds, there's definitely a solid variety to choose from. Once you're done stacking your selections, you head to the counter, they weigh your creation, and you're charged accordingly at $3.29 per 100g. I went with the spicy bone broth as my soup base, and it was flavorful, with just the right amount of heat for myself personally. Most of the ingredients held up well, though the seafood was a letdown. What really stood out, though, was the service. There was one lady pretty much running the entire floor, and she was friendly and efficient. That definitely added a positive vibe to the visit. While the DIY format is cool and the food tastes good overall, the price tag is a little hard to swallow. Our two bowls came out to over $50, which felt steep for what we actually got. It's a fun one-time experience or something to try with friends, but in terms of value, it doesn't quite hit the mark. read more

Bone Soup Malatang - Chinese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Build your own hotpot bowl! it's a bit pricey but worth it if you're not feeling all you can eat. I always get takeout through uber and portion sizing is reasonable read more

Bone Soup Malatang - Chinese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Food - $$-$$$ the concept of this restaurant was mentioned to me from a friend. He described it as a build your own soup with items of your choice & then the resto adds the soup base to make it into soup. Toppings include veggies, meat cuts, fish balls assorted, beef, seafood balls, noodles, etc. everything a hot pot place has to offer. You take your selected items, weigh it, then they charge you~ I got a little excited so mine rang up to approx $35. So be careful of how much you're really putting into your bowl!! After they take your items, bring it to the back and make a soup (takes about 10 min) & you are able to choose your spice level as well. Overall flavour was great, toppings were very good as well. Only flaw was the pricing of how much it can get. It can get pricey if you want to dabble in plenty of items. But worth it in a sense ~ Service - self serve Parking - back lot! Free. Or Green P if you wanna pay Come here if you love a build your own soup customization. I would come back if I was feeling some good custom soup ! read more

Bone Soup Malatang - a bowl of soup and chopsticks - Chinese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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Got mild spicy with Chili sauce on side and non spicy soup base. Got a bowl full of tasty hot pot I credit ga that I picked from various bowls and then they weighed it and cooked it in the back. Honestly I wasn't expecting much and two bowls was over $40 which seemed a little pricey since I didn't put too much in the bowls. But was it tasty? Yeppp and I will be back! Love their soup base! read more

I absolutely loved the enormous amount of options to choose from for the malatong broth. There were so many different types of fish and meat balls to choose from, as well as vegetables, meats, and noodles. I definitely had the urge to want to grab everything. The broth was also a good amount of spice for choosing the medium hot option and was pretty flavorful! You will need to be mindful of how much you choose to include in your malatang for weighing as it is somewhat pricey. Overall, I would definitely recommend this place for malatang and will most likely come back for more in the future! read more

Bone Soup Malatang - two bowls of soup on a tray - Chinese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Taste wise, I'd give it a 4-star, but the steep prices it charges makes me subtract 1 star. If you're a small eater or only here for a snack, then you'd be looking at low $10 with tips/tax. If you eat slightly more you'd be looking at more than $15. If you want to be completely full or if you're a big eater, then a minimum of $20 is for sure warranted. They even charge $2 for rice, which is quite ridiculous given how most people just add noodles to their malatang (maybe that's the point, they want you to add more weight instead of getting the rice). The process is easy. You gather the ingredients (veggies, hotpot material, meat, fish balls, noodles...etc), give them to weigh, and get charged on how much you take. They would then do "malatang" and adjust the spiciness based on your liking. The food was delicious and I really liked the sauces and the soup. I support the concept and the freedom of "building your own bowl". The store is small, but decorated nicely and clean. You need to strategize on what you get in order to minimize the cost while maximizing the value. Avoid the heavy veggies, tofu, corn...etc, and take more meats, enoki or spinach. Even then, it's hard to gauge how much you should take and the price stresses me out when I'm taking my food. This is why I'd only give it 3 star. Malatang is a popular Sichuan streetfood and shouldn't be expensive at all. It's very easy to make (you can do this at home too) by literally dipping the ingredients in the soup until it's good to go. It is very similar to hotpot, so I cannot forgive the expensive prices. A solution for them is to put a scale there for customers to measure themselves before finally paying up. read more

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You pick your ingredients, weigh it and they cook it for you with the selected broth. The ingredients are fresh and the service is good (the server was helpful). You get your own water from the side station. Basically this is a mini hot pot that costs $2.99/100gram (minimum of 400 gram-$12.99 and no maximum). Overall decent but found it a bit pricy for what it is. read more

Bone Soup Malatang - a plate of food with a fork - Chinese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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I love Bone Soul Malatang !!!!! Their soup is the greatest. I love the location, easy access. I love the various options to put in and make my own version of Malatang. I also love the spicy level and cleanness of the restaurant as well. read more

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It was my first time coming to the restaurant. Love the restaurant design, so cozy. New way of eating malatang. You get to pick whatever you want for your bowl, and they would cook It for you with the bone broth. You have a choice of really spicy to non spicy. Lots of selection for veggies, meat balls, noodles etc. Soup was nice and hot, not salty.. perfect for this weather. Would definitely come again as customer service was awesome and they keep it nice and clean!!! read more

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This place reminds me of hot pot where you pick your own ingredients, own soup base, but then you don't have to do the cooking (which is actually the fun part IMO) We tried their bone soup and their hot spicy level. The hot spicy was a little too spicy for me to fully enjoy. The plain bone soup was pretty good. Their ingredients cost 2.99$/100g and there's 4 soups to choose from : original, mild, hot, extra hot. Our bowls were around 15$ each. You just have to be careful not to get carried away when getting ingredients at the station as they give you a big bowl to choose ingredients- and it can get pricey (we witnessed someone filling up the whole bowl and it cost 176$ - ) read more

Bone Soup Malatang - Chinese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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This is such a convenient and neat place to get your quick fix of noodles. They have a several shelves of ingredients that you personally pick and add to your bowl. It costs only $2.99/100 grams so you can practically add anything you want. This is great because the options included seafood items like clams and mussels as well as sliced meats and fish balls. They essentially have everything that you could find in a hot pot restaurant. Once I picked my ingredients, I went to the counter to weigh in my items. There is are several levels of spice that you can choose. I opted for the medium spicy broth. They give you a small wooden number which you place at your table. All you need to do is wait as they prepare your soup. My bowl was gigantic. It was steaming hot and very aromatic.The broth was not super oily and had a great sesame flavour. The spice level was perfect. I found all of my ingredients to be cooked very well. I overall enjoyed my experience here. read more

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I don't get the 3 star ave reviews here. Their bone broth is so fresh, delicious, and cheap when compared to ordering frozen ones from the grocery. The toppings are what add costs. Toppings we love and recommend: any of the sausages (excellent flavour for broth), black fungus, any of the balls (fish, beef, etc...), sweet potato noodle What to avoid as too small or not worth it: oyster, any cheap veggies you may already have at home, including mushrooms or the extra sesame oil TIP: order 3 broths and extra noodles and it will be worth your order. read more

This is a very new recently opened restaurant located near north york subway station. For the uninitiated and people not from china, this place looks strange. Basically, you come in and they have a bunch of meat and veggies that you have to choose. but be careful because the ingredients are weighted by gram so it's very easy to get too many ingredients and end up paying a lot of money. after getting the ingredients, they will cook it for you and bring it out for you. I think the final dish is decent and pretty good. It was tasty and I don't have any complaints about it. I would come here again. read more

Bone Soup Malatang - Chinese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

This place is pretty much a mini hot pot in a bowl. You basically pick raw/frozen items along with a variety of vegetables and noodle types then head to the counter to pay for it based on weight and wait for your bowl to be served with their special bone spicy broth. It doesn't sound like anything specjal but it tastes pretty good. I always get their regular spice level which to me is perfect. Anything spicer would be overwhelming. Just make sure you slurp the broth slowly without getting it down the other pipe in your throat otherwise you will be coughing for awhile. I've been here maybe 4 times already and will definitely come back for the 5th! read more

Bone Soup Malatang - Chinese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Not worth the money you'll be spending. Remember Menchies frozen yogurt, it's like that. You can only weigh your items near the cash and by that point you'll be reluctant to dump things back after you see the price. All you can eat hot pot places easily provides more options for condiments/soup/and unlimited refills of food + dessert. It just doesn't make sense to come back. Quality is relative to all you can eat...so unfortunately that doesn't justify the price either. However I do love their giant bowls. Lol read more

While we thought the place features its soup base, the soup turn out to be actually bowl full of msg. My friend and I drank so much water after eating there. On top of that, this place is overpriced for its quality of food. They put out all the veggies and meat in a open fridge for customers to choose from. While I was eating there, a guy sneezed to the open fridge, making me worry about the sanitization as well. read more

All you can eat Malatang! You can customize your own order by picking everything that you love in your bowl. I added fish ball, cilantro, taro, beef tripe and rice noodles! Then they will add delicious bone soup in your bowl! They have ramen, vermicelli, rice noodles, sweet potato noodles, etc. Their broth is soooo addictive! I really love it! For drinks, they have peach alcohol drink! And I picked the coconut drink This is their new DT location near Wellesley and Yonge that I went too. They have another location in North York! read more

Bone Soup Malatang - Bone soup ! - Chinese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

How was the food? Okay so this place is actually pretty interesting and tastes decent. They don't really have a menu. The way you do it is that you pick all your ingredients from the ingredients section, they will then weigh it and charge you accordingly. I'd say if you are a person with big appetite it may cost you close to $20 dollars, but for a normal person, it should come to about $16 dollars to get full, small appetite people can run pretty cheap, one of my friend's bowl only costed her about $12. After they weigh it, you just need to tell them how spicy you want it. they have 4 levels, no spicy, mild, hot, and burning hot. Level hot was pretty okay for me already. By default they'll give you noodle soup, but I believe you can ask for no soup and eat your food like dry noodles if you wish. I found the way you eat very interesting, it is kind of like an alternative to hotpot, if you don't want to go full blown hotpot. The soup they use is very similar to hotpot taste. Would I recommend? Yes! read more

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The place is clean and neat, good for young people, families, and kids. The soup is delicious and one of the best I have tasted. Meat and vegetables are very fresh. Soup is natural taste without additives. Recommend this for everyone. read more

A newly opened malatang serving buffet style at $3/100 grams. The rate might seems to be kind of pricy at first, but their election includes beef and lamb similar to sliced rolls you see in hot pots. There is a great variety of selections, including many items you don't see often, such as green beans. And all the veggies are either frozen or soaked in water, there isnt any brown oxidization. However, this place fails hard at heat control. Perhaps due to its thick slicing, my pork belly were partially red. They did offer me a second heat, and it wasn't enough (it's no longer red but certainly could use more time to get more tender) and later on I also found the same issue with taro, and a chunk a peanut butter not dissolved into the soup yet. In general, heat control is hard because different ingredients are thrown into a boiling pot at the same time. Therefore it's important to slice some stuffs thinner. read more

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It was a pleasant night and we were looking to have something warm, when we stopped by here. The place is easily found and is surrounded by other restaurants serving mostly Asian food variants. It was our first time here and we walked in just because the large bowls of soup people were eating from looked very tempting. It's similar to a hot pot, just that you get to pick your veggies and meat but they make the soup for you. It was pretty cool, we were shown to the bowl and tongs and asked to pick any number of veggies and meat we would like and noodles if any and then The soup would be served on our table There was no poultry and that was a bit of a let down apart from that it was a great choice of vegetables and meat. We picked the ramen noodles to go with our fare of a lot of variety of mushrooms, broccoli, lettuce, bacon and Basa fillets. we chose medium spicy for the broth and the finished product was delicious. There were no strong flavors a hint of peppercorns and the now cooked veggies and meat were a perfect blend. It's slightly expensive but it's more than enough for two people and came to about $26 for two people. read more

Bone Soup Malatang - Chinese Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

I'm a big fan of northern Chinese Mala style soup base so I really wanted to try this place out but was quite disappointed. The idea of picking your own ingredients is nice just like other restaurants uptown like deer garden or chef papa, but this one was more hands on and weight base like salad bar at longos or whole foods which seems gimmicky. And if you are not well versed in gauging how much 100g is approximately then you may fall into the trap of over loading your bowl and creating a $25+ bowl of noodle. (Which would normally be $12 at most anywhere else) That aside I also thought for a place that had "Mala" in their name, their soup base flavour wasn't that great. It was plenty spicy but lacked the actual "Mala" feel and herbs that goes it it that actually numbs your mouth after eating it. So that was a bit disappointing as a fan of Mala soups. All in all i feel they need to improve on the soup flavor and perhaps adjust the pricing a bit, but at least their location and service is good. ( A Star for each of these things) read more

Came here with my wife because her friend recommended it. We ordered two bowls of the soup and picked out the food we wanted from the fridge to put in the soup. After each of us picked the items. We brought it to the counter to get it weighed. It cost over 50 dollars. ( That's really pricey). But I paid for it. We ate the food. But it was just spicey and salty. No other real taste to it. I can say I tried it now. But wont be going back to it again. I guess it's just not for me. read more

New and clean. Selection is good. Soup base is good. Fast service. However, their bowl is bigger than other places so be careful. It will be more expensive than you expected!! read more

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It tastes pretty good but it's not worth the price. I could've gotten AYCE hotpot with the price I paid for my food. The highest spiciness level is not even spicy. If you're craving something like this, I'd look elsewhere as there's plenty of places with better food and prices in this area. read more

I went to this store with my friends last Friday, Nov. 8th. I picked two shrimps and over 10 pecs of rice cakes and other fish balls and vegetables. I paid for what I got . But when I got my cooked food,I found I just got ONE piece of shrimp and Three pieces of Rice cakes plus the rest. I just wonder where the other shrimp and other 10 pieces of rice cakes went? read more

We were excited to try this place out as we really liked the same concept store with further location. The variety of food was good. We picked medium and little spicy bowls. But the soup tasted like fast noodle soup and with lots of msg... not the good bone soup it claimed to be. And we all felt a little uncomfortable old (kind of like you ate somebody's mucus...) flavour in the mouth and stomach for a while. So definitely won't go back... read more

Friendly staffs Great broth Good concept Could improve on the pricing and topping selections Overall great experience with great food! read more

Foods are not fresh, stain on chopsticks, chemical capsaicin in soup will result in diarrhoea

Really wanted to like this place because we loved the restaurant it use to be before this place took over. It is a nice place that allows you to sit down and relax without being rushed out. This style of food is pretty common in the area so this is what I am comparing it to. They have a very good system of getting food out to the right people so it is very well organized. Their advantage is the variety of food items they have. They even have items like oysters and decent amount of other seafood items. You pay by weight and there is a 400 g minimum which i found surprising. They only really have 1 soup which was fine, the soup was okay. The issue is the actual price of the meal, having getting the typical amount I would usually get came out to $30. The only way to make this meal worth it is if I just got all oysters which I wouldn't want to do. On top of this they literally just boil your food and put it in a bowl. At this price point I might as well go for all you can eat sushi. There is just too many much better alternatives in the area at one third the price. Won't be going again. read more

非常差劲的服务！强制性消费 并且不允许有变更数量！比起这家麻辣烫 其他的麻辣烫 在collegestr 或者chinatown 好太多了！非常不建议 请大家慎重! 环境丑炸～ extremely horrible service, the service is very UNFRIENDLY just because I think I have accidentally got too much food and they became very AGGRESIVE. Personally, I dont really write a bad comment about the restaurant but this one has literally brought my experience to the lowest level. for so much better, I think the ones in chinatown and the college street is so much better! this one has forced system of making you consume and the scale is somewhat i think super cheating, one more woohoo, the environment is just looking like somewhere a jail. honestly, THIS ONE IS HORRIBLE AF! read more

The soup is very delicious. My family came here for lunch, and they loved the noodles and soup. They picked their own ingredients, and the bowl of noodles was made for them. You can ask for mild or no spice if you prefer not spicy. There was lots of selection of ingredients. The staff was friendly. I would definitely come back for the soup and noodles. read more

This restaurant is the best one I've been to so far! It's got good amoung of different foods you can pick from. Incredible I would highly recommend it. read more