I've had great experiences at Hot Pot City! The food is delicious and the variety is amazing! They have a large buffet of hot pot items including seafood (shrimp, mussels, oysters, variety of fish, squid, crab), tofu and bean curd, so many fresh vegetables, udon, ramen, wontons, dumplings, meatballs, fish balls, quail and regular eggs, the list goes on and on! They have some cooked items on the buffet including fried rice, egg rolls, crawfish (seasonal), fried chicken, French fries, and more. The sauce bar was also extensive and included too! I liked that they had fried garlic and fried onion. They also include fresh fruit, a variety of Vietnamese che, and ice cream (green tea, red bean, cookies and cream, vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate) in the buffet. There's six soup bases to choose from, and you can choose whether you want the table to share one large pot with up to two flavors or if you want to do individual hot pot at no extra cost. I loved that they had both options. My favorite broth was probably the tom yum - super savory with great flavor. The staff is very friendly and check on you often without being intrusive, and they bring the meats you order quickly. They also refill your drinks proactively which I appreciate. The restaurant is large and could easily accommodate big parties. The restaurant area, buffet area, and the bathrooms were all really clean. The music wasn't super loud, making it easy to talk. It's located on the end of a big shopping plaza, so parking was easy. There's also specials during the week and for birthdays (see menu photo). I'd highly recommend! read more

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I received a message from the biz owner asking me to try Hot Pot City again. Few weeks ago, I just so happened to be in the Viet Hoa Center hungry. Since my previous experience was over 8 years ago, I decided to give it an update. I walked in and searched for somebody to hopefully give me instruction on how to order or start but couldn't see anyone. Then, I looked over the high counter to find an employee buried his face on his phone. I guess he was so involved with his stock market trading, he didn't notice my presence. He guided me to the first table by the door. He must know that I was very hungry. I had to squeeze between the table and the booth. Not sure why it's so tight. I am not a big guy either. I ordered chicken and lamb to start my meat crave and Chinese herbal soup. He brought me a tray of some kind of beef and a tray of lamb. I didn't challenge him because I was hungry. Then, I ordered chicken from a lady. It took a little while and I almost told her forget it. The meat was very lean and kind of thick. Not easily seasoned with the sauces there. I actually ate more fish than any other protein. The catfish fillets were pretty fresh. Except, I don't like to watch flies crawling on my mussels. Not sure why health department has not come here yet. There are fly traps hanging above the seafood and dessert aisle. I also spotted some mosquitos or gnats flying around the sauces. I am sorry but I definitely not coming back. This got me so disgusted. I had to leave. read more

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There is so many good options to choose from for the hot pot. The service was so friendly and helpful. The ambiance was nice and quiet because I got there when they first opened. Definitely worth the stop. read more

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They know people order a lot of food for hotpot and had a double decker to make room. I like their thinking. The hotpot is good but I think their chicken wings were good. I tried so hard to not eat as many as I should because I wanted to make room for the hot pot. It's very busy during meal times. It's good that it's a spacious place for a wheelchair. It's really loud too. read more

All a round great. The spicy house broth was a burst of flavor. Just amazing. The service was great. Great meat choices. Abundant vegetable choices. I also like that they have hot prepared food like braised beef, chicken curry, wings, lo mein, and fried rice. The ice cream selection was top notch too. Highly recommend. read more

Hot Pot City - Chinese Near Me - Houston, Texas

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If zero stars was possible. We came as a party 9 and they offered us 1) a round table with 3 pots, 2) 2 tables of 6 with 4 pots. When we arrived, we saw tables of 8 with 2 pots where we could've sat. We asked if we could sit there. The server said "you can ask my manager?" And pointed where the manager was posted up against the wall. The server waited for us to move to get the manager and when we didn't, we asked if he could get the manager, he reluctantly walked to the manager, asked our question then came back and said "she said no". We turned around and the manager saunters over, very annoyed that she had to come address our question. Service is absolutely awful. read more

The flavors are amazing. I tried the Tom yum one, and it was delicious. I also recommend the Shabu soup. They have many toppings that you can have with the broth. Staffs are friendly and helpful. The store is clean. However, the desserts were a little bit dried. read more

Hot Pot City - Chinese Near Me - Houston, Texas

We went during the soft opening time. The food was great, and the space was clean. We liked the taste of the soups. Great options too. The price for lunch special is very reasonable:) read more

I'm not a fan of buffets and cooking your own food in a hot pot. If it's your thing then this place is probably 5 Stars. It has a wide variety and the service is great. It's just not a concept I like. read more

Give this place a chance!! Our go to AYCE hot pot joint is shabu zone but they've recently raised their prices.. I heard about Hot Pot City on Instagram and instantly came to check it out. Staff is super friendly and we got seated right away. They are new only from 1-2 months since opening so perhaps not a lot of people know about this place yet because there wasn't a lot of people. But that was great for us because that meant no wait time and I could go get my food quickly. It's very clean, the stations are clean, and the raw meats/vegetables are fresh. The shrimp is HUGE! They also have a dessert station along with a cooked meats section- The wings were very good! The only thing I didn't like as much was the hotpot is shared. It's not individual hot pots. You share with the table. But they do they split hot pot bowls where you can get two different soups. I'm going to tell all my friends about this place! It's $20pp here for lunch. I think it's a steal honestly. read more

Just came back to Hot Pot City since they changed to AYCE. The awesome broths have not changed and the ingredients were fresh. Service was very attentive and quick. Thank you for keeping a good experience. read more

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Horrible food, bad service, food is not fresh. The taste is bad. Server not helpful. Server couldn't even turn on hot pot for us. Never go back. read more

Found this gem that met everything I was looking for in All you can eat place. They have all you can eat made to order bbq skewers, fried wings that were crispy and juicy, and hot pot dishes with many varieties. Did I say the price also included the fountain drink that tasted normal! Not weird soapy taste nor water down. I'm especially impressed by their service. We came with two toddlers, they offered additional hotpot for the kids to share without charging us. We were so full and still could not pass on their delicious ice creams! Highly recommend! Will return soon, even just for the wings! read more

Hot Pot City - Chinese Near Me - Houston, Texas

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This hot pot restaurant is excellent! They offer a wide variety of food options, allowing customers to choose from a diverse selection of ingredients. read more

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Great food, item fresh, and a lot of items you can choice. Buffet includes soft drinks too. read more

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Hot Pot City is located right at the beginning of the plaza containing Viet Hoa International Foods, which is how we found out about it. We were grocery shopping one time and thought, "We should try that place some day!" Houston's hot pot scene eclectic in the sense that each restaurant has something different or unique about it. I think Hot Pot City's style fits the mold for some customers. For us, it's not as ideal. One, the concept is not all-you-can-eat ... which is fine if you don't want to feel pressured to stuff yourself so full until you're about to explode. However, our bill for two people ended up being more than if we went to an AYCE place. But what's nice is that it leaves you the option to take food home if you don't finish. Two, I wasn't too impressed with the taste of meats. I got the Beef Ribeye Steak and my bf opted for the Assorted Meat Platter (a good choice if you want to try a variety). We both thought it was okay -- not terrible, but nothing that blew our minds out of this world. I will say their thin Canadian Egg Noodles were delicious. As far as broths, our server explained that the Thai Suki and Vietnamese are best if you are big into seafood. The Mongolian is more of a beef-based broth (Very tasty and a good choice, if you're going the non-seafood route). The Japanese Shabu and Healthy Chinese Herbal are on the lighter side. With sauces, I was hoping there would be a soy sauce or shoyu-based option for our meats. But there wasn't. We did sesame sauce for vegetables and ordered one of each for the rest of the sauces. They're only $0.50 each, so it was worth a try. Thai Chili is sweet, Garlic Sesame Oil is exactly what it sounds like, Sha Cha is pasty, and Sa Te is your chili oil sauce. Our server, Tran Hong Anh (the name on our receipt) was super helpful in explaining their menu and concept to us. She was very attentive and patient during our first experience here. My only complaint is the staff didn't bring two items that we marked down on our order sheet. But we didn't say anything, because we ended up with enough food anyways to get us full. Would I come back here? Sure, if a friend wanted to try it. Would I go out of my way to seek it out again? Probably not. read more

Hot Pot City - Half & half broth (Vietnamese & Mongolian), Beef Ribeye & Assorted Meat Platter, Canadian Egg Noodles - Chinese Near Me - Houston, Texas

We came in for dinner during the weekday. We were seated immediately and our server, Ethan was extremely polite and helpful to us. He explained exactly how to order and what was included in each option thoroughly. There was no surprises or extra charges later. The place itself was spacious, clean, and beautiful. The layout of the tables and booths were well thought out. Our family had enough space for the five of us in our booth with two burners ready on the table, albeit we only needed one. We are two adults and three children, ages 12, 7, and 4 so we ordered the Surf & Turf. This option was great because it included cuts like ribeye, lamb, chicken, and seafood. Really, it was a great way to have everything you need. The only thing we added was beef tendon and an extra noodle add on. Vegetables such as Napa cabbage, bok choy, pumpkin, and daikon are our favorites so they were great compliments. Our choice of broth was Thai Suki and Japanese Shabu. We loved having the choice of something spicy for ourselves and something mild for our younger ones. Both soups were delicious and flavored perfectly. I loved being able to head to a hot pot and not worry about having to add soy sauce or fish sauce to my broth while I'm eating. If I wanted to do that, I'd just stay home and cook myself. Being able to just add the protein and vegetables as I eat saved a lot of time that I used to enjoy myself. Service was amazing, not just from our own server but from all the staff. Love the atmosphere! I plan to return again with my family and when our extended family come into town, this will be one of the places we will love to treat them to. read more

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Ate here for a birthday party and the food was alright. The all you can eat style dining was nice, the noodles were good, lots of greens, and good seafood. However, when it came to ordering meat, the meat looked oxidized like it had been sitting for a while and overall felt poor quality. The meat has little to no marbling but was edible. If you are big on meat I would not recommend coming here but if you like seafood this is the place for you. The waiters were nice, they were always walking around cleaning up our table throughout our dining experience. The restaurant was nice, I liked their decoration and how spacious everything else. The restaurant was good however the main part of hotpot is of course the meat which was a let down. read more

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Hot Pot City tọa lạc tại khu Viet Hoa Food Market, với món lẩu ngon tuyệt vời ông mặt trời. - Add: 8300 W Sam Houston Pkwy S #180, Houston, TX 77072 - Local guides: https://goo.gl/maps/YDW1zS2ZmW4ARPKM8 read more

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Overall delicious, filling hot pot (not AYCE/buffet) and awesome customer service. Shoutout to ETHAN for being so attentive and friendly! The meat lovers hot pot combo was perfect - comes with half and half soup base, sorted platter of meat and sorted platter of vegetables. I absolutely love the Vietnamese broth it's like canh chua - tomato base, sweet and sour soup. If you ever want hot pot this is the place to be. read more

Came here for the combo - seafood and meat. It also came with a platter of veggies. Service was fast and friendly. We got 2 different broths - Vietnamese Lau and Chinese Herbal. Both were excellent. We opted to get one of these spicy. The portion sizes are generous, and this was more than enough for 2. Can probably feed 3. We also got the lamb skewers, which were super flavorful and tender. read more

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Can't believe I haven't reviewed Hot Pot city yet, considering how frequently I eat here. During this visit, we ordered half/half of Mongolian and Thai broths. The Thai broth was amazing as usual, being sour and spicy, whereas the Mongolian was a little bland. The meats and vegetables were fresh as always. And we always have oranges for dessert! For a party of 3, we picked 2 sides of veggies, 1 portion of scallops, 1 mixed fish balls, 1 portion of beef, 1 lamb, and 1 Canadian egg noodles. The portions are generous so we didn't even finish the hotpot. Another plus is that they provide to-go containers for your leftovers. The chicken wings and beef skewers are quite tasty as well. Service was amazing with frequent refills. read more

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Loved the hot pot experience in Houston. Low in carbs very good for gluten free food. I love hot food and this suits best for me and especially on a cold day read more

Listen. The hot pot looked amazing on each table with all the additions but I was alone and didn't want to order all that just for me. I went with the Asian wings. Wow. I mean head shaking good. I want to say they have a seafood sauce on them and you can choose your flavor level. If you like it hot, get 5! I did. My stomach didn't agree but they were delicious! I'm going to go back and try the hotpot. And get more wings of course! Buffet is closed due to covid. Friendly guy helped me. Kuddos to him read more

Hot Pot City - Asian spice wings - Chinese Near Me - Houston, Texas

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Hot pot city all you can eat hot pot service is one of the best in the city. Love the BBQ skewers as well.

Awesome food. Great service. A lot of variety of selection. Definitely will come back again!

we just stopped by here with table for 5. We have 2 herbal soup and 2 thai tomyum. The flavor is really good, and there are also salmon and fresh seafood. The servers are great service and food !! We are highly recommend this restaurant. read more

Me and a friend decided we wanted to eat Chinese so we decided to come back to this place because it used to be open before but it looks like it's ran by some new folks and it looks really great and interesting. We got excited by the advertisement that someone else posted for $19 a person for lunch, but as we went in, the ladies that greeted us told us oh no that picture that's on there is too old. I understand that they also have a posting for $30 a person but $19 seem to be about the right price for lunchtime. We understand it's the weekend but come on. We just thought $30 Bucs A person was too steep even for dinner. We showed the ladies the picture that we seen on yelp but they just immediately said oh no no no we thought well at least maybe they could've honored it. You know since they're new maybe we could've had a chance to taste the food and maybe give it a better rating But OK nevermind. read more

With Houston's warm weather nearly all year round, and hotpot being a tradition for cold, winter season, there is definitely a lack of hotpot restaurants in the city. You can say the hotpot scene in H-town is pretty much dominated by Little Sheep Mongolian Hotpot. And if you compare the two side by side, Hot Pot City doesn't fare so well in my opinion. The only positive feature I found in Hot Pot City was that they had more than two flavors of soup to choose from. However, it was a bummer that the soup lacked the authentic flavors. Although they had a decent, but not large, selection of veggies and meats, the freshness and quality of these items were just not up to par. The meats were not very fatty and could be sliced thinner. The cabbage was flimsy and looked a bit withered. The seafood was far from what you call fresh. For less than half the price, I could probably get much better ingredients and throw my own grand hotpot meal at home. #190 read more

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Hot Pot City was amazing - Service, Food and Drinks. We ordered the crawfish, hotpot Thai, crab special and sake. EVERYTHING was delish. Crawfish was fresh and so yummy. Thai hotpot was paired with egg noodles which made it even more tasty. We will definitely come back again. read more

Hot Pot City - Chinese Near Me - Houston, Texas

If it is your first time going, ask a lot about the flavor of the broth. Don't go there with less than 3 people. I went with just my husband and me and there was a lot of food leftover because we couldn't finish it all. Overall the place wasn't bad, but average. The service was pretty absent, the waitress came to take our sheet, give us our cups of water, then that was it. They didn't come back to the table at all besides giving us the food. No refills. For the menus, it was pretty self explanatory, just wish there was pictures so I could see the portion sizes. And for the broths it doesn't explain the flavor at all. Just the names. Not like "beef" or "chicken", just "Mongolian" or "Vietnamese" or "Thai". I ordered the Mongolian and it had a ton of chili, green onion, cloves, ginger, and garlic in it that I had to spoon out before I tried it. Also, they were playing a horror movie on the TV's with a lot of blood(a demon possessed girl licked a box cutter knife in the movie) and gore on the SYFY channel. They eventually changed it to the food channel but I lost my appetite a little bit. read more

Decent hot pot place if you don't wanna be obligated to eat until you're about to explode at an AYCE spot to get your money's worth. I had beef, vegetables, and shrimp. All good, but nothing that would warrant a return. My waiter was nice and fast. read more

Hot Pot City - Food - Chinese Near Me - Houston, Texas

Very satisfying experience here recently. Great selection, came at a non-busy time, service was excellent. One surprise that amazed our group was how good their wing appetizer was. Will definitely come back. read more

This is a hidden gem! Who knew they had such a great variety of foods and the happy hour deals are amazing! What I ordered: Hot pot: 5/5 Mongolian soup was on point the flavor was all there and on the same level as their competitors 4/5 Thai soup it was good but for me I need spicy and sour it was lacking the sour department The hot pot comes with a variety of meat and/or seafood. Fresh veggies and crack sauce to compliment with! 5/5 Crawfish with garlic:Pleasantly surprised! Fresh live and huge full of flavor! Only 5.99$/lb during happy hour! 5/5 Chicken wings: my favorite dish there cooked exactly how I like it with just the right amount of flavor ..I didn't even need the ranch sauce! 5/5 Lamb and chicken skewers: tender fresh and flavor was all there. Staff was greatly attentive super friendly location has plenty of parking! Great for large group, parties, and even have a few private rooms for privacy or events! They even cater!! read more

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Excellent hot pot menu and very fresh food. Being there several times and will going to there more often. In addition to the fresh food, Very friendly environment for enjoy your food while you sitting and eating. read more

Hot Pot City is a great value and perfect for groups! When you're seated, you get a paper menu and peanuts and sweet pickled vegetables to snack on. For one hotpot, you choose a type first. The type is what protein you want. They have seafood, meat lovers, surf and turf (combo of meat and seafood), tofu and mushroom, and a few others. Then you get to choose up to two broth flavors. There's Mongolian, Thai, Japanese shabu, Chinese herbal, and Vietnamese lau. My family loves the Mongolian and I love the Thai base. You can request a vegetarian broth as well. Then you choose a level of spiciness. All hot pots come with veggies and a little bit of bean thread noodles. Add ons: always order the thin Canadian noodles, this is a staple for most tables! Appetizers/others: they offer wings, beer, and crawfish, etc. Tip: ask for scissors to cut up the veggies!!! All of the employees were wearing masks and there is plenty of space and tables. This is a great place to eat a healthy and hearty meal full of fresh nutritious vegetables! The garlic, vinegar, and soy sauce now comes in individual plastic containers instead of communal dispensers where everyone touches them. read more

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We find the food really good and would recommend eating here. The service was amazing and they were really kind and helpful. The ambiance was pretty nice, 1 side where each station had its own food type and I find that really well organized.. I really love the place and would recommend coming here! read more

i'm usually a shabu shabu person, so i'm used to having more of that flavor profile for the sauces. there aren't really any sweet soy sauce kind of options here, which makes me sad. we ordered the ribeye, shrimp, tofu, fried fish cakes, and more seafood options they let you order half portions for any of these. we liked their egg noodles the most. their udon noodles were meh: wings were also meh. it wasn't that busy when we went but it was difficult getting their attention again after our initial order. the ambiance was very calming compared to the ayce options like shabu zone. read more

Love Hot Pot City! Food is fresh and tasty, and service is exceptional! I've dined here for years and have never once been disappointed. If you are looking for a special dinner different from the traditional norm, try this restaurant out. If you like seafood, I definitely recommend the seafood combo platter. You will love it! Enjoy! read more

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Food was delicious!! Can't wait to go again! The people there were nice enough to explain how the whole thing works! Oh and the beef skewers are amazing!! read more

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