*4.5* stars This…read morerestaurant has a very unique taste and dishes that aren't really seen anywhere else in the KW region (not that I'm aware of at least!) I saw it on Ubereats and saw there was a BOGO going on so I ordered it. I was pleasantly surprised at the complexity and variety of dishes they had! If you crave Asian food, I definitely recommend this place. This place seems to primarily be for hotpot, but I can understand with covid it's harder to see that side right now. Nonetheless, they have many options outside their hotpot as well. I got the seafood with vermecilli noodles for my partner and a Mala spice with fish noodles for myself. The beef pho was a BOGO option so I got them for tomorrow's meal. (the BOGO list was quite limited). They were delicious and I found the portion sizing to be quite nice! The soup was very very flavorful and hits the spot. Again something that I haven't found in the KW area at all until now and would crave (since it can be found commonly back home in Toronto) Packaging, wait time and everything was fine. Why it's not a perfect score is because of its price point. It's a lot pricier than some other places. Their primary feature is hotpot and noodles. The hotpot options seemed fairly nice but there's also a few other hotpot places just around the corner too. With the noodles, you can get the same large portion (but different noodle type, same richness in broth though) for half the price that they set it at here. I personally see this place as somewhere I'd get ever so often, or special occasions only. For student prices, I'd probably look to go elsewhere. However, you can't deny how good their broth is, so it's not a big enough deal to knock off a star completely.

This is the best AYCE hot pot place in KW in my opinion. Even though the restaurant is slightly…read moreinconvenient, I always look forward to visiting. This is one of the rare late night grabs that is not fast food. Environment: Like I said, it is not the most convenient restaurant for students, but trust me, it is worth taking the trip. The restaurant does offer free parkings for those who drive. On the inside, the place looks like those traditionally looking Chinese restaurants. The ventilation is not the best, so wear something you don't mind getting dirty and getting smelly in. Food: AYCE hot pot. The price doesn't include lamb however, it costs extra. The beef, chicken, fried pastry 面筋 are my favorites. They make a lot of the ingredients themselves, so it's always fresh and they are super tasty. Their slushies are really good too and the portion is quite big. The price for hot pot includes tips and tax as long as you pay cash. Service: Yeah...this place is notorious for the bad attitude of the owner. He's manageable as long as you don't piss him offer. Don't mess with the heat setting and find someone who can speak Cantonese and you're good to go :P

Since I've been hearing about the hype for this place, I decided to try it on a Friday night with 3…read moreother friends. I would recommend coming here if you have 4+ people since the table does fit large groups. First, make sure you make reservations at 5 PM when the restaurant opens - they only allow reservations if it's 4+ people. When we arrived at the restaurant it is very busy and not a lot of parking spots so you'll most likely have to park on the street adjacent to the restaurant. Pros: This hot pot is Hong Kong style which just means it's mainly chicken broth and the ingredients are catered to Hong Kong taste but there are still the essential ingredients to a traditional hot pot. The price is amazing you really can't beat $26.50/person + taxes for anywhere within the GTA for AYCE. Cons: Unfortunately service is terrible. Since it's very busy in the restaurant the owner will give you a time limit which is about 1 hour and 15 minutes which I thought is sufficient time to eat but would differ for others. He literally was watching us to the second and the environment felt very rushed. I don't mean to question management, but there are limited tables at the back room and the front area (waiting area) has so much space where you could literally set up more tables.

Tasty food, and lots of it!…read more First off, it's not really $30 AYCE hotpot, as you have to pay an extra $4-10 pp more for the broth, depending on how many you choose and what size. A quick note, their communication is poor. They're not being mean or ignorant or rude or anything, but for some reason it's just hard to figure out how to order, or to get supplies, etc. Even the signage isn't great, and their servers just seem kinda perplexed that you don't just know what's going on. Like, what is this extra $4 charge? What drinks are included, and for what prices, in the AYCE menu? How do you turn on this induction stove? How much food will we get? How much should we order? Can we choose spice levels for each of the broths, or just the one? Is dessert included in the AYCE? etc etc. Anyway, communication aside, there was a lot of food, and it was tasty! We underestimated the amount of food they would bring us after we circled our selections on their paper menu. We were afraid to get charged for leftovers so we just kept eating, and eating and eating. The meats seemed fresh, and there was plenty of it. We really appreciated having the hot food too, like the fried tofu, chicken wings, etc. We also ordered the popcorn chicken as part of the AYCE but they forgot to bring it. Overall, now that we understand how this restaurant works, I'd come back again for the quality and quantity of the food.

After so many month of planning and finally, First time visiting this place with my friends for…read morelunch and I'm in a mixed feeling not sure how I feel about it lol. The place itself is nicely structured... BUT, everything was so messy and cluttered w pile of papers boxes.. It didn't give us vibe of being at restaurant but rather visiting at my old uncle's Roger's house. The food wasn't too bad, had lots of great varieties of stuffs, meat and vegetable options to choose from, everything was neatly stored in container for self serve. I had tomato broth and it was super sweet like dessert. DO NOT ORDER IT! I replaced to pork bone and was so much better. The service though.... The servers weren't attentive, lack of attention, no instructions, no communication, lack of service over all and I was pretty confused to the point I felt bad kept interrupting them asking for almost everything... menu, plates, utensil... chopsticks, napkins.. literally EVERYTHING to start off my meal. They were probably owner's kid? Idk.. they didn't seem like to care and were hanging out at their own table w computer, device and eating their meals... . We weren't mad, just thought it was so hideous cuz no one seemed to care. The other customers at other tables.... Were filled w bunch of Highschool kids hanging out, they weren't really eating.. yet some were laying on table napping.. playing W phone... listening to music quietly.. (not much noise) . It reminded me so much like school detention room. Over all, they weren't rude or anything, so we just minded our own business eating away w girls and left. We did had a good meal thoughts cuz we were in our own zone cuz no one really disturb us or no interaction, made us felt like HOME to do whatever we needed.. helped ourselves! There is lots of room for improvement to bring more customers if they care enough to give better ambience and service. Will I come back...? Hmmm, if I'm so desperate for hot pot and around the corner May be... otherwise.... I won't even recommend it.

Soup base is pretty good. Tried the half & half (tomato & spicy beef tallow). They had a good…read moreselection of skewers and other hotpot ingredients. I really liked their brown sugar jelly for dessert. Prices were a bit expensive as you also have to pay for soup base. The service was okay and restaurant was decorated nicely.

2nd adventour to Happy hot pot but brought a Newby along with me…read more What is hot pot? Basically you order all raw (frozen meats) thinly shaved and veggies (fresh) and cook them in a small boiler at your own table. Happy hot pot the servers give you a menu which a marker is included you simply choose dinner or lunch menu by ticking a small box continue by following the menu down choosing from an assortment of items 1st: choose your broth from normal to ultra spicy 2nd: choose from : bok choy, mini bok, fungi, mushrooms, enoki, spinach, winter green, baby corn, rice etc. Meats: chicken , lamb, pork, beef, kobe beef. 3rd: While waiting for your order to come your server places the broth and it sets to boil in 10mins. During this time go to the back room (sauce/drink station) opotsite the bar area. You will find asstmt of sauces here from seaseme seed, BBQ, satay, peanut, hosan, Siracha, minced garlic, mined onion, coriander, leek sauce... Mix and match the sauces how you want then grab grab a drink and head back to your table. Going forward your yummy foods will start arriving, simply start placing your item in the boiling soup with chop sticks provided (they give a scoop for those not so good with chop sticks) the veggies cook much like your own home so don't leave them in to long. Meats that thinly sliced and rolled in rolls cook quickly like dunk in boiling broth for 1 min and done. Dip in your sauce and smile!!! Happy hot potting!!!!!

They had very fresh fish!! They literally purchased the fresh alive fish in the Chinese super…read moremarket next door after you placed the order so that they can ensure that the fish was fresh. Their BBQ fish is much better and cheaper than any other BBQ fish places that I have been to in Toronto. If we visit London again, we will definitely give it a try their all-you-can-eat hot pot.

Good AYCE option for hotpot. It's a good alternative to HDL if that's getting boring. Long line,…read morebut fast service. Kind service.

Tips: - The lunch hot pot is $20.99. The dinner hot pot is…read more$28.99. Both don't include broth. - There is a promotion going on (May 2025) where if you get the dinner hot pot for lunch or dinner, pay an extra $1 to get broth. - I'd skip the meat at the self-serve area. You get enough beef and lamb already. Last Wednesday, our departmental meeting was pushed from its usual 1 pm start to 2:30 pm. Our team meeting was cancelled due to this move. I asked my friend what his schedule was like. It was clear, except for our afternoon meeting. It was the same for me. We had talked a while back about going for hot pot. I asked if he wanted to do hot pot for lunch. He said yes. Yay! We found three hot pot places roughly twenty minutes away from the office. We decided to try this one. We both hadn't been here before. I drove us over here. There was lots of parking in front of the restaurant. I backed into a spot and we walked in. We were promptly greeted by a woman. We got a table of two. We were quickly seated at table 37. Our seats were comfortable. The table was large enough for our hot pot, and all our food and drinks during our meal. We got menus. The lunch hot pot was $20.99. The dinner hot pot was available for $28.99. The only difference is that there's a section in the self-serve area that has dinner items only. We were told that there was a special going on. If we each got the dinner hot pot for $28.99, we could add $1 for broth. We said yes. Broth is separate. It's an interesting pricing structure. We wanted two types of broth for $9.99, but we added the $1 on the dinner hot pot to check everything out. For the broths, we got clear and curry. The woman said that she'd bring the pot out with the broths and we could help ourselves to the self-serve area. We liked both broths. My friend liked the clear one better. The curry tasted like Japanese-style curry, which had my heart. There was a lot of food. I made the mistake of getting dumplings and beef meatballs that were raw. I also got fish balls that were cooked. I recommend sticking with the beef and lamb slices, and skipping the proteins in the self-serve areas. There's enough protein already. Lesson learned! The fountain drinks are at the back. My friend loved the orange juice. He said that it was addictive like Tang. Oh, wow! I alternated between the Diet Coke and plum juice. They were excellent. I was happy with getting veggies, udon, and rice sticks. The mushrooms, potatoes, and sweet potatoes were fun to cook and eat. Any green veggie also worked well. We got thin slices of beef and lamb. They cooked quickly. I liked the beef more. The lamb was gamey even after you dip it in whatever sauce you have created. We felt that the pot itself was up high on the table. The depth of this pot was probably three inches. The cooking element was not sunken into the table. Trying to figure out where our food was swimming and whether it was cooked took more care than usual. We are fairly tall people and the added pot height took us by surprise. The pot also wasn't centred properly. Our curry broth was boiling away, but the clear was at a low simmer. I shifted the pot, which seemed to have made a difference to get both broths to do the same rolling boil. Sadly, one of my huge lamb dumplings wasn't cooked properly when I checked because of the weird discrepancy with the boils. I ended up putting it in a small bowl, pouring hot broth on top of it, and cooking it that way. I had already opened it up to check for doneness and didn't want to drop it back in. I felt like I overdid the cooking, but at least it was fully cooked! I somehow managed to get some dessert, which was a small section in the self-serve area. I got a small chocolate cake square, which was delicious. There were also peaches that were clearly out of a can. The honeydew melon chunks were fresh. I frankly feel that the lunch hot pot with a broth purchase would have been sufficient. I was happy to have tried mini corn cobs, enoki, and more from the dinner section. I would have been fine without it because there were so many food options. Our server asked if we wanted ice cream. It came with our meal. We were so full that we skipped it. The washrooms are in the back, just before you hit the beverages. The women's was clean. My friend paid for both of us at the front counter. I ended up paying him back when I got us back to the office. It's not bad paying roughly $35 after taxes for such a feast. We had a good time. It was a lot of food. We learned what not to do, so we'll be back to perfect our hot pot skills and try to squeeze in some ice cream! (160)

when you see the staff outside every day smoking and throwing their buts on their patio (god knows…read moreif they are washing their hands) I know I would never step foot in that restaurant. If they can't keep the front of the store clean I can't imagine the inside being clean.

Great hotpot! So many options on the menu. My very Irish boyfriend got to try all sorts of dishes…read morehe wouldn't normally have and he liked everything. It was my first time doing all-you-can-eat hotpot and the server was very helpful with explaining everything.

Formerly Waterloo Star. Great value. Clean. With purchase of an entree, you get free self serve…read morefountain drinks, rice, pickled daikon, bean spouts and cabbage salad. Scan the QR code on the table to see the menu and order. Food brought out promptly. For what you pay, it is a good deal.

Decent food, good deal for students with unlimited rice and side dishes. Pork hock was made with a…read morelittle too much vinegar and portion sizes could be bigger for the price.