Jiuding Flavor Restaurant

Really good spicy beef tallow hotpot soup base. Some other highlights we enjoyed: Kobe beef, boneless duck feet, frozen tofu, handmade noodles. Mushroom/veg were fresh too. Spicy marinated beef portions were very generous. Really loved the sesame sauce at the sauce bar as well - tasted really rich and fragrant. Service was great too! Would come back again.

Awesome hot pot here! The soup base selection was good and you can have each broth for a specific person which was nice. The meats they had were quick to cook and turn brown and were really tasty with the sesame sauce and soy sauce they also mixed once you were done cooking the stuff in the pot! The broth was really sweet and a little spicy on my end but you can go really spicy if you wanted to! They have meat selection for lamb to beef to pork! Veggie selection was also great too! There was a handy cart for putting away used and finished dishes on the side! All in a nice windproof tent and this was a pretty pleasant hot pot place! Be wary it can get spendy quick if you overfill yourself and you can't keep the hot pot broth when you're done.

Went here with my partner expecting a 4.5 rating meal but was met with a huge disappointment. Immediately, we noticed the utensils were grimy and had suspicious black speckles. The tables were close to one another without much space, and when the food came, a separate cart had to be placed next to the table. However, this was blocking the entrance back to the seat when one of us had to head to the restroom. When the food arrived, we noticed the ingredients looked stale as if they were batches that were scheduled to be thrown out. The broth, mushroom and spicy, was bland, except for the spicy soup which contained mala. That is, a type of spicy and numbing spice; however, in the soup, only accentuated it's numbing agent. Throughout the meal, we ate expecting it to be better only to realize after that we were trying to convince ourselves that the meal we had was not that bad. On its own, the meat was fine, but it was just that. Have never regretted and felt sad that I ate here as much as I did after. Would not come here again.

So far the no.1 hotpot place for me. I came to this place five times in one month, tried almost all the different soup bases. Every single one is good depends on your personal preference. The thing is, everything taste fresh and the soup is not too strong, or too salty or too sour, like some other places. I prefer the tomato soup base. The appetizers are also delicious. The lunch special is my new favorite. They have rice plates and hotpot in a small stone pot.