狂一鍋 新莊復興店
Ordered the medicinal herb chicken thigh pot (with a trace of rice wine) + flank steak 439.
The basic pot comes with a bone-in chicken thigh that needs to be cooked thoroughly before eating.
A glove is provided for easy handling.
The chicken thigh seems to be marinated and tastes quite fragrant.
The broth has a herbal flavor and is more like braised rather than light.
There is cilantro in the soup, which tastes quite like rib soup.
Although it's part of a meat-heavy group, there isn't much meat; the beef consists of only 9 small slices.
It tastes very tender.
Compared to the limited amount of meat, the self-serve area performs quite well.
Fish dumplings,燕餃, egg dumplings, small meatballs, square sweet tofu, frozen tofu, and Fuzhou balls all taste great and don't have the cheap powdery texture often found in low-end hot pots.
The vegetables, including Napa cabbage and Chinese cabbage, are washed very clean.
Taro, cucumber, white radish, and winter melon can all be easily cooked until soft and flavorful.
The purple sweet potato will make the entire pot's color look quite strange, and the tofu can turn moldy.
Baiye tofu expands incredibly when cooked.
The milkfish paste also gets super large, so it's advisable not to scoop too big a ball.
The striped sweet tofu tends to break apart on the shelf and will fall apart when cooked.
Ingredients are replenished quickly; I rarely saw any shortages at the self-serve area.
The drink area is happily stocked with a Coca-Cola machine.
When I visited other branches of Crazy One Pot before, there wasn't a Coca-Cola machine, and I had to order separately.
Otherwise, the other two beverage machines are actually quite unappetizing.
The dipping sauce area has the basics, and the Yuzu sauce with garlic is quite tasty.
It’s clean, but the plates for the sauces are extremely small, causing food to overflow.
The pot seems to have been changed; previous Crazy One Pot pots were very shallow.
A chicken leg would be stuck in the pot, making it impossible to add more ingredients.
The broth would constantly overflow. Now the pot is large and spacious.
The only dessert available is pudding-flavored ice cream.
This branch has darker lighting and a different ambiance compared to other branches.
You order using a QR code, and settle the bill after dining.
Payment can be made by card or cash. As far as I recall, other branches accept Line Pay.
A payment device is available.