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Pretty good hotpot spot in Richmond. The broth wasn’t my favourite and service was a bit slow, but apart from that we had a great experience. While slow, the servers were very friendly. The sauce station is good. They have some excellent menu items, like a watermelon juice, that are unique and worth returning for. The meat platter is also a good value.

During certain evenings we crave for some hot pot, been to quite a lot of hot pot places so decided to give this place a try since it is fairy new and seen some decent reviews on it. I know, more then often I have high doubts on a lot of reviews. I remember the first time I been to this restaurant was when it was used to be the old Jang Mo Jib, fast forward it to now, a new hot pot restaurant. The restaurant has its only parking lot so parking was easy but could be a bit cleaner and quite a lot of bugs cause surrounded with trees, etc. the entrance to the restaurant has 2 statues, one on each side. Inside the restaurant has that ambience of dining at a local restaurant in China, wooden tables and benches one and side and the middle, and to one side has little stalls with tables and chairs. The sauces and appetizers are self served. Here were the food we ordered; 1. 2 kinds of flavour soup base, pork bone soup and medium spicy soup base. Average just like most hot pot places. 2. Premium angus beef. It came layered around an ice cylinder with dry ice effect and an egg to dip the beef in before cooking. Besides the dry ice Smokey display effect, nothing special. 3. Superior wagyu beef. Wagyu beef is wagyu beef what can I say. Tender and fatty. 4. Thick cut beef slices. Tastes fresh and almost as good as the wagyu, I think this is better value then the wagyu beef. 5. Lamb rolls, I didn 't quite get the nice lamb taste in this dish, but got to have my lamb cause they say, if you don 't have lamb at a hotpot, you didn 't have hot pot at all 6. Live geoduck 2.5lbs. Pretty fresh and nicely prepared but not cheap either, $79.99/lb. 7. Quail eggs. Same as everywhere else 8. Frozen tofu and tofu puffs Once again same as everywhere else 9. Duck blood. Tasted fresh but I personally prefer pork blood more. 10. Vegetable platter and bamboo shoots, fresh with a pretty generous portion. 11. Handmade noodle, fresh and nice texture. 12. Pork belly slices, quite fresh and nice fatty taste. Overall, the service was decent and the food was okay, but definitely for the price you pay here, you can get better service and food at a few other higher end hot pot places. I personally would prefer Haidila or Dolar shop hot pot more. Including tip, paid $520 for 2 people and didn 't even offer dessert like some tables got. I would give this place a honest 2 stars. Would I repeat? More then likely not. Would I recommend? Maybe worth a try if you don 't mind the higher prices.

This was our first time eating here and the experience was very pleasant. Our waitress was very helpful and walked us through how to order and notated the popular items she would recommend. We ended up choosing the trio broth flavors along with Napa cabbage, quail eggs, pork belly, fish roe bags, bean curd, emoji mushroom, fish filet and the premium beef. The quality of the food was excellent as pictured below. We were checked in on a few times and our broth was topped off whenever it got too low. Our waitress recommended the yogurt which I thought was odd, BUT IT WAS SO DELICIOUS!! This yogurt was light and had a subtle sweet flavor- it was perfect for having after eating such a spicy broth. Thank you so much for recommending. I wish I could buy a pack and stock my fridge up with it! The last thing I wanted to mention too, as we were waiting for our check, I looked around the restaurant and saw another customer at the sauce bar who was trying to carry 3 plates of sauce/snacks/fruit? But was struggling to carry all 3 and I watched another waiter walk straight over and took 1/3 bowls and helped him carry it to the table. It was such a strong act of kindness that I was very impressed with the customer service provided at this restaurant and will definitely be coming back.

Original style from Chengdu, Sichuan. You can smell when you enter the restaurant. Beef oil red hot pot is my favorite.

Awesome food and service. Very authentic favors and food selections. I would recommend anyone who wants to try Chongqing hotpot.