Tan Hotpot — Restaurant in Melbourne

🍲🔥🌶️Diving into the Heart of Spice at Tan's Hot Pot! The star of the show? Their signature spicy soup and the unique, must-try Duck Blood Jelly

🍅🍅 Double the Flavor, Double the Fun🌶️🌶️ Our adventure began with a pot divided: Tan's traditional spicy soup on one side, igniting our palates with its bold flavors, and a soothing tomato soup in the middle, providing a comforting embrace

🥢 The spicy soup includes slices of Duck Blood Jelly and Braised Quail Eggs, each bite a revelation of textures and tastes. The Duck Blood Jelly, in particular, was a standout, with its silky consistency and ability to soak up the spicy broth

**Savoring Every Slice 🥩Wagyu Beef M9- Chuck Eye Slice melted in our mouths with its tenderness

🍖The Kurobuta Pork Slices A treat for meat lovers

**Unexpected Pairings 🪷The Lotus Root Slice with Pork Mince was a first for me. The crunch of the lotus paired with the savory pork mince was a perfect match 👌

🦐Prawn Mince Crowned with crab roe, boasted freshness in every bite

🫘 Crispy Tofu Skin a delight in texture and taste, generously portioned and perfectly fried

🥔Yam Sticks A healthy and tasty addition to the mix

If you're ever in the mood to challenge your taste buds in spice, this the place to be :)

Thank you @tanhotpot for the invite 💌* Went back to Tan's Hot Pot for round 2 !!🔥🍲

This time tried the combo - half spicy, half tomato soup! Such a smart way to enjoy both worlds! 🌶️🍅 Love how on my first visit I tried their signature Duck Blood Jelly and Braised Quail Eggs in that fiery spicy soup! The Duck Blood Jelly soaks up all that amazing spice! 🌶️

The meat selection is seriously next level! 🥩 Got 3 types of wagyu! The quality is great!

The seafood is SO FRESH! 🦐 Got prawns, prawn meat, spiral shell slices, and fish slices! Everything tasted so good with the soup base

The Prawn Mince topped with crab roe was another standout from my first visit - so fresh and flavorful!

The Crispy Tofu Skin soaked up all that...

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It's hotpot weather! Try Melbourne's classic Sichuan hotpot with premium ingredients and delicious soup base.

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Featured in video Double flavour soup - tomato and chicken ($32.8) Seafood platter ($88.8) Fish mince with roe ($11.8) Quail eggs ($10.8) Chinese white cabbage ($8.8)

The soup base is so good, I would rather drink the soup instead of getting dipping sauce. It's rich and flavourful, especially after adding meat and seafood. I personally didn't like how the restaurant refills it with plain stock water instead of soup. It waters down the taste a bit, but you can ask them to not refill, and turn down the heat instead.

I usually see meat featured at Tan hotpot, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the high quality of the seafood. Everything was fresh and clean with no fishy taste. The prawns were big and juicy, and I liked the tiny lobsters a lot. It's perfect if you're not fond of meat, but still want to get hotpot.

The viral fish mince with roe was shaped like an actual fish! That was so cute! It was smooth, and full of fish. It went well with the tomato soup base.

It's not cheap, but it's good value for money. I went with one friend, and we went a bit overboard with ordering and ended up too full. I would say that what we ordered would have been good for 3 to 4 people.

10/10 would be back again, especially for the seafood!

The ventilation was excellent and I could feel the wind blowing at me the whole time while I was in the restaurant. It didn't feel stuffy at all, there was no smell of hotpot in the restaurant as a whole (only at the tables themselves), and the great ventilation really helped to prevent the smell of hotpot from sticking to...

It’s still winter in Melbourne, and what better way to stay warm - with hotpot! Pretty reasonable prices here, hence we kinda went ham and we were sooo stuffed 🤰🏻 shared amongst 5 people, there was more than enough food! The highlight ingredients were the snowflake beef, kurobata pork, and mashed prawn! All the dishes came out quite quickly and it was convenient to have a side shelf for dishes that didn’t fit on the table/empty dishes!

🍲 Double flavoured soup - Mushroom & Sichuan Pepper [$29.80]: the sichuan pepper may not look spicy but let me tell you we all had perspiring noses 🥵 don’t be fooled, those green peppers were deadly 😅 we enjoyed the mushroom soup, should’ve ordered it alone! This soup duo was definitely a challenging experience for our spice tolerances 🤩

🫙 Self served seasoning [$3.80 p/p]: loved the DIY sauce station - chuck in as much garlic as you want! 🧄

🥓 Kurobuta pork slices [$14.80]: recommend!! Such a tender cut of pork 💯💯💯

❄️ Snowflake beef [$18.80]: recommend! another delicious tender cut!! 💯💯💯

🐟 Fish minced roe [$11.80]: how cute is the fishie!!!

🤍 Fresh tofu [$8.80]: beautifully sliced tofu looking like a flower 🌸

💛 Crispy bean curd skin [$8.80]: defeats the purpose of it being crispy, but once dipped into the soup and it goes all soggy, that’s the best!!! 😍

🐠 Fish balls platter [$10.80]: assorted fish ballzzz & fish roe lucky bag 🤑

🦐 Mashed prawn [$16.80]: one of our faves! prawns are essential for hotpot 🤤🤤

🐙 Squid tentacles [$12.80]: only needs a short minute of cooking time to keep its silkiness 🫶🏻

🐚 Scallops [$16.80]: silky and doesn't need a long cooking time

🥗 Vegetable platter [$13.80]: corn, chinese cabbage, tomato, radish!

🥔 Potato noodles [$6.80]: literally the best chewy noodles 🤤🤤

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