Ultimate Hot Pot Experience Haidilao is renowned worldwide for their hot pot, I have personally been recommended to try haidilao by many of my friends. Hence, this is my first visit and experience dining in haidilao Gancit. During this visit, we ordered 1 Ma La soup, 1 Mushroom Soup, and 2 plain water. We decided to only ordered 2 out of 4 pots of soups as there are only 3 of us, would be a waste if we fill up the whole hot pot. For the toppings, we ordered some Beef Shortplate, Pork Samcan, chikuwa, lotus root, kangkung, and shitake mushrooms.
I was quite surprised that the portion for the beef, pork, and vegies were quite big. Bigger than what I had expected. The quality of the beef and pork are top notch, juicy and tender, and it doesn't have that meaty raw taste even when cooked rare. Meanwhile for the soups, the Ma La is quite good, we ordered it to be less spicy, but still have that unique Ma La numbing spicyness. I would recommend ordering at least 1 Ma La soup for dipping with the meats. Meanwhile the mushroom is soup is very rich and umami. It's a light soup, perfect to be sipped after you've boiled everything in it. Additionally the plain water base soup is not actually plain, as they do give some chinese herbal ingredients within it, and is actually quite useful if you'd find the Ma La is too spicy, perfect for washing/rinsing some of the Ma La oils.
For the service, I would also say it's very top notch. Super friendly and helpful staffs, as it is our first time in haidilao, they would assists and recommends us on what and how to order. Additionally, there are free mineral water, and the staff would be very attentive and refill our glass once it looks empty.
For the restaurant itself, it's quite spacious inside, plenty of space between the tables so even if it's crowded, its not cramped. The tables are quite huge as well, the bigger tables could fit up to 8 people (but maybe only 6 during...
Read moreBest Hai Di Lao Outlets in town!
Been a fan of Hai Di Lao since I tried it first abroad and here in the outlets. Compared to any other outlets this outlet offers a lot of first facilities such as they used to have the all you can eat, one of the first manicure station, and lots of other offers such as gifts, snacks, and food + drink items! So in terms of variety this outlet are, in my opinion, superior!
For their food, I can confidently said Hai Di Lao is pretty consistent across outlets, in Jakarta at the very least. They have fresh ingredients for the hotpot and side menu items are cooked consistent and always delightful to eat..
So for the difference maker, I believe this outlets is very spacious for its customer since I never really have a waiting line during weekdays and their vip room is also available if needed be.
And lastly for the biggest difference between each outlets, the people. I believe HDL has set a high standard for customer service and waiters are held highly accountable through their SOPs.. However coming from experience this outlets is just on another level. All of workers are highly coordinated with one another, super helpful, and always fun and friendly too! Grateful also for Rahma as supervisor in attending needs for me and my guests every time I visit without a fail.
Thank you HDL GanCit, will always come back here! Highly recommended
My recommendations food items: the gandum soup; milky and rich in flavor the 3 combination soup; clean and savory broth shrimp pancake; tofu with cheese shortplate
and don’t forget about their free ice-cream for dessert
NB: There is secret code during my time of visit which you can get the gift below.. you can check out tiktok or instagram reels of people revealing those...
Read morelove this place, bumped here all of sudden and almost not going here but my hubby convince me that this in good. entering this place with Chinese vibes, they offered if my son can play in the playground with their staff stay there to play with the kids and also to keep them safe in case there's some dominant kids over another, the broth variant so yumm, i tried the collagen and mala, but i ask to lower the mala spicy into Indonesian spicy standard because i knew the main land mala taste literally awesome and I can stand over it 😅✌️ the mala is 10/10, for the collagen also 10/10 but i still prefer the mala cz i love spicy 😜✌️ the meat literally have a lot of variant and you can choose many things there. but because i am a Moslem, so yes definitely im not pick the pork or blyes0000000000000000090000000000000009000⁰ⁿ11 because i simply am can not eat them 🙂 the lamian noodles dance so awesome, i fact the manager came to my table and said no one ever choose the song like me and my hubby choose for the last 2 years 🤣🤣 well, we basically just love hard music 🤭. for the rest i just love this place so bad. superb recommend for family gathering. OH OH, when this place having lots of customer, they'll give us the Bian Lian performance 😍😍 this part is what i love the...
Read more