1. Broth (An additional cleaning fee of 20 yuan will be charged for each type, and some broths will have an extra charge)

【kombu and bonito broth】
Includes a small piece of kombu
You can add more broth yourself
Overall performance is average

【pepper pig stomach soup】 +59 yuan
Another cup of soup is provided for you to add
The first sip is very "peppery"
(For someone like me who doesn't enjoy spicy food, it is overwhelmingly peppery and spicy,
but my friends enjoyed it quite a lot)
After adding vegetables and something else, it becomes less spicy
🥹 Just my personal nitpicking: I only got two pieces of pig stomach

2. Main Course

【Large Portion Three Cuts of Beef】 388 yuan
Marbled, tender shoulder, bacon
The marbled beef is quite good, the tender shoulder and bacon are average
👍 The portion is very filling

【Clam Hot Pot】 288 yuan
👍 Very fresh, and the sand is cleaned out very well
🥹 Just my personal nitpicking: the portion is a bit small

【Self-Service Bar】
Not many varieties of vegetables and hot pot ingredients
There are also curry, Italian beef stew, and braised pork for mixing with rice
Beverages, ice cream, and desserts (hot green bean soup)
Overall, it's the standard selection you would find in a typical self-service bar
👍 The Italian beef stew mixed with rice is really very tomato-flavored! The acidity comes through, which works for someone like me who loves tangy flavors

✔️ Ordering method: QR code scan
✔️ Payment method: Cash, LINE Pay
✔️ Free WiFi available
✔️ The self-service bar has a notice that waste will incur a 150 yuan fee
✔️ Dining time is 90 minutes, with a reminder before seating, but since it wasn’t fully seated later, we weren't rushed
✔️ Located in the alley off Jingping Road, next to a community, it feels primarily like a food street for the neighborhood
✔️ Parking at the nearby Daiso Jingping store; after eating, you can get a discount on parking when shopping at Daiso
✔️ Dining before 1:00 PM, with about 5-7 groups of customers on site, no need to queue, and it maintained about 6-7 groups until we finished eating
✔️ There are many seats available, with tables for 10, 6, and 4 (which can be divided into 2-person sections with dividers), and there are also wall-side personal booths.

Random thoughts 👄
I happened to pass by Zhonghe and saw online recommendations to give it a try,
But while on the way, I took a brief look at everyone’s reviews
And found that some ratings were not high...

After eating, I felt that while it wasn't bad,
The ingredients and overall aspects are just average
The overall price is not as high as extravagant hot pot restaurants
But it’s also not as cheap as stinky hot pot
(I also saw some normal portion meals costing over 200, and weekday business lunches priced over 100)

It falls in the middle in terms of price,
And the quality is also in the middle
There’s nothing especially impressive.

Maybe if you live nearby,
And want a bit more food without spending too much,
You might come here;
But for outsiders passing through Zhonghe, there are probably many similar or higher quality places around, so they wouldn’t go out of their way to eat here.

🔅Actual meal date: 2024/07/14
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Personal pot method, self-pickup of tableware, QR ordering
(There are also children’s tableware)
Self-service bar vegetables/hot pot ingredients/drinks/rice/pasta/dessert/ice all you can eat
Specially priced pot base with fixed amount of soup
The remaining soup is self-service kombu bonito soup base

▪️Pepper pork belly soup +$59
The seasoning is quite strong, with a peppery spiciness.
The cooked food is quite delicious, but I can’t drink the soup alone.
▪️Dongtian Top Tender Shoulder Signature Beef $368
The meat is not tender enough, the texture is quite heavy, and there are large chunks of fat.
▪️Salmon $48
It tastes better when cooked and has a strong fish flavor.

Braised pork and rice are delicious
There are not many leafy dishes in the buffet bar and they will be replaced.
Dessert that day was mung bean soup. It was a little sweet but okay.

▪️Tomato bone soup $59
▪️Large Portion Keto Meal $388
· Plum pig + chicken roll + tender shoulder signature beef
The above soup base and meat were ordered by friends.
I've tried it and thought it was quite satisfactory.

Overall, a lot of points were deducted because the meat was not tender enough. There was nothing else amazing about it. The pork belly soup base was actually pretty good, but it was a bit too heavy. For me, it was just a one-time shop. The above is for reference.

·90 minutes of meal
·No service fee, only $20 cleaning fee

Comments from people with braces: There is only one sink, which is inconvenient when there are many people

First of all, it’s too hot... The more you eat, the hotter it gets. The table next door also said it was very hot.
You have to be sure about the hotpot restaurant.
Shouldn't it be cool?
The store clerk told me that it gets hotter when there are more people.

Closer to home
I ordered it for the first time today
There are seven kinds of soup bases
Ordered pepper pork belly soup $59, tomato bone soup $59
There will be a 20$ cleaning fee added to the soup base.
meat
Dongtian top tender shoulder signature beef $368
Large-portion Ketogenic Set Meal (Plum Blossom Pig + Chicken Roll + Tender Shoulder Signature Beef) $388 (Pork and chicken are good, but for beef, you get a lot of pieces with bones, which is a bit annoying
Single Point
Salmon 48$ (don’t like the fishy smell)

The dishes in the buffet area are quite fresh.
There are also some hot pot ingredients, including prince noodles, winter noodles and pot-roasted pasta.