Excellent service and fantastic food…read more For soup bases, we tried the tomato soup and spicy hotpot soup. For sauce, we paid for the make-you-own-sauce station and I made a mixture with garlic, XO sauce, and soy sauce. You can't go wrong with adding whatever you like into a sauce! For meats and veggies, we tried several types of beef, mutton, fish balls, fish, beancurd, and Chinese veggies. You can order whatever you want on their tablet. We also got the all-you-can-drink tea option with their delicious lemon tea. The waitress was extremely attentive and even gave us a free fried man tou dessert that came with condensed milk for dipping. The mantous had a crispy exterior and soft, warm interior. I couldn't help but indulge. Because we opted for the better quality meats, our total was about $100 USD. A more expensive meal but extremely satisfying and it was money wellspent.

Excellent service!…read more The hand-pulled noodles were the reason why we came to this restaurant; and it did not disappoint! We had a table-side pull of the noodles and it was very entertaining. There is a variety of different cuts/quality of meats that vary in price; so it is easy to stick to your price point if you want. The only thing that would be a bit more expensive; is that if you wanted extra sauces or certain sides; they do charge you per person for those things. I found that with the tomato soup base; there was no need for any extra sauces though. The soup base was flavourful and matched well with all the ingredients. It is important to note that this place is not AYCE; but a-la-carte ordering. We were still quite full nonetheless. All in all; was a great experience and the service is really above and beyond.

I love hot pot, and this place is so delicious! It was my first time eating this type of chicken…read morehot pot. Unlike standard hot pot which starts with a pot of broth, here you first received a sizzling, spicy chicken pot. The waitress asked us to wait a few minutes before lifting the lid, so the chicken gets to caramelized and the aroma to intensify. After you finish the chicken, they pour some broth into the almost empty pot to deglaze it, and viola, a flavorful broth is ready for you to begin your hot pot experience. This place offers a lot of varieties of ingredients for dipping into the pot, as well as a variety of drinks. Even though the place is really busy, the staff is pretty nice. The walls are decorated with cute cartoons and even the placemats too has a cartoon showing you how to properly enjoy your chicken hot pot.

THIS CONCEPT IS SO COOL. First you order a half/whole order chicken that is pot roasted in an…read moreamazing sichuan pepper sauce (mild is already crazy spicy). You eat the chicken first and then your server adds in the chicken stock so you can hot pot with stock that is now flavored with leftover chicken juices and yummy sichuan spices. Honestly, this should be the only way we should hot pot from now on. But then again, Hong Kong is already on top of it. I'm American. It hasn't reached our shores yet, but it damn well should. On a Monday night (8PM), the wait was an hour long for our party of five. We ordered more food than we can handle, including a whole chicken, and paid HKD $200 (USD $27) each. Notably delicious foods included the chicken (duh), yin yang cuttlefish paste (very bouncy texture), and herng lings (deep fried soybean paper rolls that you dip into the soup for a second). This location is a little weird in a small street, but if you have Google Maps, you should have no problem finding it. Also, this is a chain so you can find one closer to you. P.S. Dishes are half off after 10PM. Ask your server for clarification.

Our friend used to come here all the time so when I asked for his favorite hot pot joint in TST, he…read moreimmediately brought us to Hot Pot House. The atmosphere is definitely old school with tons of pictures of celebrities up on the walls coming up the stairs to the restaurant. Get there before the dinner rush or you will be waiting a while to get a table! There are English menus if you ask your server. Their broth is really good - I'm told it's boiled up to about 5hrs every day! The service is okay. They get really busy so you might have to track them down to get served. Their signature dishes are: - diced beef - osmanthus mussels (soooo good!) - goose sausage (but we didn't try this) Every table I saw had chicken testicles, so we went along and ordered a plate. It was different; chewy. I'm glad I tried it, but I don't think I'll order it again. There are two or three private rooms located toward the back of the restaurant. There is a 10% service charge, so no need to tip!

Hot pot restaurant in Hong Kong - Came here due to a friend's recommendation. The idea of having…read morefresh seafood in tanks that you could cook in hotpot sounds better than reality. Everything was just okay for the high price they charged. None of my family members had anything to say about the meal so I don't think we'll go back. It's a bit hard because there's so much competition in HK.

This place the THE BOMB! If you go during hairy crab season, you must get the crab roe hot pot. It…read moreis a small bowl within the hot pot full of crab roe and then the soup is crab and seafood and I think some chicken. It is amazing. Must make a reservation and reserve the soup. I think off season, they have another hot pot that is also very good. But make reservations for seating and the hot pot. It was $350 HKD when I was there last year for just the pot. Then you order the seafood at the little market that is inside the restaurant. They make it like you are sitting outside. The atmosphere is really cool. Food was so fresh. Loved everything about it.

Halloween is fast approaching, so this seems like an appropriate time to review this restaurant…read more Wait but why? This is just some hot pot place. Nah. Da Hong Pao Hot Pot in TST has literally the scariest bathrooms I've ever been in. No, it's not that it was dirty, but those bathrooms can pass for a haunted attraction at Ocean Park. If I wasn't drunk, I'd be terrified. Anyways, more on that later. Da Hong Pao Hot Pot is one successful hot pot place. The TST branch is only one of its locations and I'm hoping more open up. When your method of cooking is literally dunking raw food in boiling water, you better be using the freshest ingredients. Da Hong Pao delivers and exceeds! Knowing this, they also serve sashimi along with hot pot. As a girl from landlocked Toronto, I'm already amazed by the variety and quality of seafood. I've rarely had geoduck and it has definitely never tasted as sweet as it did here. The razor clams were so fresh and chewy, the fish balls were incredibly bouncy. On top of that, ingredients I am familiar with were just as great, like the beef and salmon. Now I haven't been to many hot pot places in HK, but I'm also gonna go out on a limb and say some items here are quite unique. Foie gras stuffed squid balls and black truffle wontons anyone? They've got all your expected condiments and soup bases like mala spicy, satay, cilantro & thousand year egg, etc. But they've also got their specialty: "金屋藏嬌: The Beauty Hidden in the Golden House". It's basically a whole chicken sitting in a winter melon, which acts as both a dish and a subsequent soup base after you eat the chicken. Very nourishing and something I definitely haven't seen before. Service is spectacular. Food and drink came promptly and there were easily 4-5 people serving us that night, despite the full house on a Thursday. The blonde man in charge was so fun, he felt like one of our own. At the end of night, he even helped us take photos and an Ellen DeGeneres style selfie. Oh yeah, the bathrooms. Walk past the tables, the bar, the kitchen and down the isolated hallway. Open the door and you're greeted with a black-painted room, lit only with dim red lights. You can barely see your own face, but you can make out the outline of a hundred of your faces within the back-to-back mirrors. You can now do your business while you wonder if one of your reflections might turn around slowly to stare at you with demon eyes. (76/100) - 2017

My first time at this restaurant! Apparently it was one of the up and coming restaurants as they…read moreopened serveral branches within a short periood of time. I also had to make a reservation one week ahead of time for a table of four. We had the chicken and water melon soup base. Chicken was half so don't worry you can save room for beef and other stuff. I liked the soup base and everything in it.. we got the usual stuff for hotpot like beef, dumplings, veggies, etc. I recommend the beef in wine because it was unique, and the deep fried bean curb sheet rolls because it was really fresh. Price was reasonable too. Tip: Make reservation!

We have tried Haidilao all over the world and wanted to try it in HK here in Causeway Bay. The…read morerestaurant is located in the Lee Theatre building, and the view alone is worth asking for a window seat. We ordered two flavors of soups: Thai soup and tomato soup, which I usually ordered. What stood out most was the service. Everyone was welcoming from the moment we arrived, and our server was incredibly attentive throughout the meal and they were always quick to help with anything we needed. The food was solid and they have a lot of options to choose from, and all the ingredients tasted fresh and high quality. We ordered a large Wagyu beef and it was melt in my mouth tender . Their veggies were fresh and delicious Overall, we really enjoyed our hot pot dinner with excellent service and yummy food . I'd definitely come back the next time I'm in Hong Kong.

This mainland Chinese chain restaurant is known for their good service. How do I know? Besides…read moreconstantly checking on us, my all-you-can-drink plum juice glass was never emptied. One of my chopsticks was dropped on the floor and before I had a chance to look down the floor, I already got a new one. They also offer rounds of hot towels and a wipe to wipe your glasses in case the steam gets in the way. Besides the impeccable service, the food was also very fresh. Half portion was recommended so we could get a variety of food. My aunty ordered a toad (??) for me to try. Super tasty like chicken. You can choose up to 4 broth ranges from water to super spicy. The restaurant gets very crowded and busy and they do not take reservations. For dinner, we arrived at 530pm and there was no wait. The restaurant environment is very lively. Serving robots moving around, face-change performers, dancing noodles, happy birthday song singing... My eyes were very busy! If you end up having to wait for a table, they serve you fruits and tea while you wait. I even saw a manicure station there! Some locations open 24 hours a day so give it a try when you are in town.

This is one of the more popular hot pot places in the Nathan area. Prices are very reasonable. It's…read moreall you can eat with unlimited can drinks for about $20US. It's located at the Chuang's London Plaza, but I can't remember what floor. We ordered two broths, the satay and tomato. They were both savory without being spicy. The ingredients that we chose and that they brought out were extremely fresh. I kept ordering the head on fresh shrimp. The two other items I enjoyed were the fishcake with cheese filling and fishcake with tobiko filling. They had a variety of canned drinks that you could help yourself to. OMG, they had this one drink called Milkis. It was a milk soda and I drank around five cans. I've never tasted soda so good in my life. I wish they had it here. The only thing that I didn't like about this place was their dipping sauces. Hot pot places tend to have a plethora of dipping sauces. This place only had two: peanut butter and satay. I mixed the two and it was kind of gross.

Very busy on a Sunday night at 7:30pm. AYCE for around $20USD. Good food, good variety, quick…read moreservice. Cheap beer at 3 cans of Heineken for $18HKD I would go back

Our first day on vacation in Hong Kong led us to a pretty awesome shabu shabu experience here in…read moreMong Kok. Yahataya is located on the 10th floor of a complex with tons of other hot pot and sukiyaki restaurants all vying for your attention. My friend and I were attracted to their AYCE (and drink!) deal which allowed us free range of the goods. Depending on the time you start your 2-hours, the price may fluctuate a bit. We came at 16:30 so we received the $180 per head deal for the shabu shabu goodness. Even on a Saturday, it was fairly empty inside with servers that looked nonchalant as they were passing out food to tables. Upon seating, you choose your main stock and have your go at the vegetables and cheaper-meats lying on the counter. There's also soft drinks and beer included in your price. The biggest trick here is that you're supposed to order off the "RicePon' app on your device. WHAT!? It took us about ten minutes before we realized that nobody was going to come to our table until we downloaded the app and ordered online. This explains why the service was pretty meh at the beginning- they don't come to you until you order. Nobody even told us we were supposed to do it this way, and I can speak/understand Canto. The app is fairly straight forwarded and if you can't read Chinese, they have photos associated with a majority of their items. Once you select the premium items including thinly sliced beef and pork, sushi, sashimi, etc. they'll bring them out to your table one by one. We ended up ordering three rounds of meat and seafood for our pot and had a blast. The slices of beef were definitely good and the freedom to order non-meat items made this one for the books. If you're looking for a good shabu shabu spot with minimal staff interaction but plenty of food and drinks, definitely check this spot out.

Before embarking to Macau for a day trip, we decided to come here for an early 7am breakfast. Since…read moreI didn't get my HK Style French Toast from Australia Dairy Company the other day, I was excited to try it here. Kam Wah Cafe is also famous for their freshly baked Pineapple Bun and Butter. Can't start your day without some HK Milk Tea and Iced Ovaltine. My son said it's a good thing the nai cha in the states are not as good because he was starting to develop an addiction. Lol. For those of you who don't know, it's made with Ceylon leaves, evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk. The French toast was so damn delicious but a bit indulgent. I do wish I could taste more of the peanuts. My son loved his bolo bao. We also shared a hot bowl of macaroni soup with Spam and lettuce. Thinking back, I regret not trying the Spicy Satay Beef Instant Noodle. I will have to look for this back in the states. The aunties working here are just the most adorable, very kind and welcoming. One of them took the time to help us navigate the huge menu and recommended a few items. I would come back again and again if I could. I have a mad love for these iconic HK Style Cafes aka Cha Chaan Tengs. These affordable quick-paced restaurants were influenced by the city's 150 years of British rule. Aside from the classic breakfast items, they also offer many delicious rice and noodle dishes in the afternoon.

Came here just for their famous pineapple bun with butter! This is a classic HK cha chaan teng…read more(cafe) serving up favourites like satay beef with vermicelli noodles in soup, sandwiches, and of course, a strong HK milk tea. We got here fairly early, so we didn't have to wait for a table. Service was as expected - quick, efficient, and no nonsense. A tell-tale sign of a good HK cafe. The food just hit the spot for me, bringing me right back to my childhood memories of eating this on weekend mornings at our local HK cafe. Note that they don't accept foreign credit cards, so be prepared with cash, Octopus, or Alipay.