Sizzling Pot King
| Cuisine | Chinese |
|---|---|
| Price | $$ (16-30) |
| Rating | 4/10 |
| Last Visit | March 23, 2023 |
| Location | SFBA: San Francisco: Downtown + SoMa |
General Notes
A dry-pot style restaurant. Essentially, you choose the ingredients + flavor + spice level that you want, and it's all stir-fried together and served to you in a sizzling pot. It was alright, but I've definitely had better dry-pot before. Still a very satisfying experience (it's hard to go too wrong with dry pot places), but I wouldn't necessary recommend this place.
Positives
> Overall decent flavor (I ordered the 香辣, which was solid)
Negatives
> I ordered the lamb, which was dry and badly overcooked.
> I'm not a fan of the fact that you can't really choose your side ingredients and are confined to the vegetables they provide. I really don't like Chinese celery, and I really should have asked them to omit it. In my opinion, bean sprouts really don't work in this kind of dish too. Additional ingredients rack up in price quickly.
> There's a large pool of oil at the bottom of the pot, which makes things more greasy than it needs to be.
> They'll light a flame underneath the pot so that it stays hot ... which also has the added side effect of way overcooking some of the ingredients that stick around at the bottom.
Dishes Tasted
- ★☆☆☆ Sizzling Pot -- I ordered a sizzling pot with lamb, the default vegetables (potato, broccoli, celery, bean sprouts), rice cake, lotus root, and quail egg.
