You can pick your own ingredients, then decide on the cooking method. There are options for stir-fried and soupy dishes; I chose the soupy "mala" dish. It arrived with the soup warm, not very hot, and the hot pot base wasn’t heated either. The taste was okay; I ordered it mildly spicy, but it was much spicier than the mild option at other restaurants! The soup base wasn't oily, but the prices were a bit high. You can get unlimited white rice for twenty yuan per person.