Golden Roc Hotpot — Restaurant in Melbourne

美味 ! 美味 ! 美味 ! 美味 ! 美味 ! 美味 ! 美味 ! 美味 !

Unique: Fresh Killer Pig's Blood Cubes to Die For. Fresh young Bok Choy like young Chinese school girls bursting with cute & sweetness. Dragon Hotpot Prawns that jumped out from the depths of the ocean love to be eaten by you.

Fresh crunchy Bittergourd with slight bitter sweet taste of Japanese Okinawa longevity.

I love how the rice is well cooked, QQ even when soaked in yummy soup & 粒粒分明.

Solid long strands of Rice Vermicelli that symbolise longevity and taste shiok when soaked in the broth.

The chilled Rock Sugar Pear Drink unique to Dragon Hotpot tastes heavenly and is a thirst quencher in hot days.

Wide selection of ingredients to choose from - you can eat for more than a year everyday and you won’t go bored with its permutations.

Health Benefits: Prawns are a rich source of selenium, one of the most effective antioxidants at maintaining healthy cells. They also contain high levels of Zinc, which is important to develop a healthy immune system. Pig's blood curd is rich in riboflavin, vitamin C, protein, iron, phosphorus, calcium, niacin and other minerals. Moreover, it is easy for the body to digest and absorb. It also contains a certain amount of lecithin and can curb the harmful effects of low density cholesterol. Bok choy also contains vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta-carotene. These nutrients have powerful antioxidant properties that help protect cells against damage by free radicals. [ Reference: Dr Google ]

Best Deal: Share a $18 Hotpot (Vegetables, Meat & Seafood) and a bowl of rice with your Partner to keep your budget friendly and uplift your mood.

Love the almost unlimited paper napkins n condiments. I stole 5 pieces of free paper napkins.

Guaranteed quick service by the immaculately presented, neat & smiling young waitresses.

Atmosphere: Well decorated & Clean. Temperature is Climate Controlled. Toilet is clean. Great Music at the right volume. Lots of occupied seating space.

Crowd: Professionals, Locals, Tourists, Schoolgirls, Schoolboys, Caucasian, Asian, Africans

Place is packed full of people eating and queuing thus the food must be good. The food turnover rate is high thus the food must be fresh.

If you don't like queuing, why not order takeaway from Uber Eats / EASI and enjoy in the comfort of your home to binge watch movies? The delivery will come in a flash.

I give it 5 / 5 Gold Stars.

I want to eat everything, well, except the staff :P . I will return to try different ingredient combination & unique drinks as they all look tasty.

🙂

Disclaimer: I don’t own any shares in the restaurant or get paid for writing this review. Then again, you just have to trust my words as you can’t read my thoughts.

I really did visit this restaurant as I have the photos paired with this review (though one could download photos from Google Images).

On the other hand, I would give less credibility to text only reviews (may not even have visited the place) which may serve as an outlet for pent up frustration for a tiny minority of other people. I used to do that in the past as I was impetuous.

Many things in life are only opinions - not facts.

On the other hand, in consideration of your mood then, different people at the place, your life experiences & a myriad of infinite no. of variables and their permutations that rapidly age / change every micro second to and fro between unlimited levels of ripple effects, certain aspects of this review will be different from your own experience due to other people’s biases and stereotypes.

You have to visit the place to determine if the review is accurate.

I highly recommend you to schedule into your reminder to bring your family, colleagues and friends there this week for a pleasant gastronomic experience.

🙂

Best regards, Jianfa Ben Tsai

Fat Guy with 35 years of Restaurant Dining Experience 35 years Loyal Supporter of the same Footie Team with my Boss whenever he changes his team with...

My friend had ordered from this place yesterday and recommended it to me as I had never tried it. On ordering and receiving it today via delivery, it looked quite pleasant. Right when I was going to pour over the broth, unfortunately I saw something strikingly vile and unhygienic - a piece of hair. I don't know how it got there, nor do I want to find out - but it immediately put me off the food, especially amidst the coronavirus right now. I called up and the person who picked up the phone wasn't apologetic or showed any understanding of the situation. They offered to replace my next meal. However, after this experience of seeing the hair, as well as the phone call, I felt as though I wouldn't want to order from this place again. I asked instead whether I can drive there and return this meal as I am not going to eat it. The lady mentioned she'd offer a replacement in return.

At this point, it would have been better if they could personally deliver the replacement meal, given I'd already paid $8 for delivery. Nevertheless, I picked up the replacement meal and upon arriving home, presentation wise looked nothing like the original order, and it was missing the garnishes (coriander, spring onions, fried golden beans). In fact, it looks like even in the original order there were no noodles at all.

No other compensation was offered or provided e.g. no extra items (e.g. 1 extra prawn or something would have been nice) as a courtesy of me driving all the way to their store, especially given the rainy conditions.

Will unfortunately not be returning to this place which is a shame, I really looked forward to it.

Food: Good but nothing special; broth was nice and creamy, but the experience has ultimately coerced me into giving...

How it works is: Get yourself a pot and a tong Variety of ingredients to choose. Different kinds of meat balls, seafood, veggies, rice cakes, noodles and meat to choose from. Take it to the counter to get weighed and choose your type of way your ingredients get cooked. There is Mala stir fried, Mala soup, collagen soup and picked soup. Each you also choose the level of spiciness. The only non-spicy is the collagen soup.

My favourite is Mala stir fried (mild) still pretty spicy and top it off with a collagen soup to balance the spiciness. Of cause all this was shared among 3 or 4 other people.

We came in on this particular day just before 6pm. Been here many times so we jumped straight into it. Got to step 3 weighed our ingredients and choosing our stir fried and collagen soup, we were told that the stir fried wok was in use of cooking the chilli oil. Pretty disappointed to think such busy restaurant And you only have 1 wok, and not to question why would you make your chilli oil at a busy peak hour?

Payment option: cash, eftpos, liven and few other Asia apps. (One this day eftpos was down too)

If you like a bit of a hot and spicy, I highly recommend you to try. After 6pm gets quite busy, the front seating might be minimum but they do have seatings...