Photo courtesy of David Z. on Flickr.
If you like labour intensive food experiences, the new Mongolian Hotpot on Bank St. is the way to go. I’ve got to admit I knew nothing of the Mongolian Hotpot experience (the chain has more than 350 locations worldwide) or that this was a relatively new restaurant when we decided to try it. For a Sunday evening, I was surprised to see it so packed. We were two and waited for approximately 30 minutes before being seated.
Once we got to our table, our waiter was kind enough to explain how things worked. On each table there are elements that heat up your food. You pick one or two broths, and a type of meat; either beef or lamb that comes thinly sliced from the kitchen. The rest of the food is buffet style and for dinner there are lots of options: many types of seafood, chicken, lamb noodles, eggs, vegetables, tofu. You also pick your dipping sauce or you can create your own by mixing the different options. Once you have your broth, you put your different components in the broth and heat it up. For a novice like me, being seated next to one of the many Chinese patrons at the restaurant helped me find my way. In the end, I still did a lot of experimenting.
The dinner menu is the most diverse and also the most expensive at $17.99 plus around $2.00 for broths. It’s a bit pricy but was very delicious. Hope they didn’t mind the mess on the table!
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