Hakata Mizutaki Hamadaya Kouten — Restaurant in Fukuoka

When its torrential down pouring out, the perfect place to go for dinner is chicken hotpot. This place is tucked on the 10th Floor of the Hakata Station Amu Mall? Unlike other shabu shabu, the main focus is chicken. The menu had a few choices for hotpot and we went for the 8 course recommended chicken hotpot. They brought an amuse bouche of vinegared chicken meat and parts. Excellent palate cleanser. Also, a plate of three things including braised veggies, homemade tofu with edamame and a piece of ham on skewer. We started off with a local Kyushu sake which was seasonal and paired very well with the hotpot. The entire time, they serve you so you don’t really have to lift a finger. What they do is they start off by bringing a pot of chicken soup base. They serve you a tea cup of the chicken soup at its most basic with spring onions. This is basically for you to taste how it is before all the stuff is put in. It’s so simple but flavorful.

Chicken They start you off with chicken thigh and breast meat. The chicken meat was so tender even the breast meat which generally tends to be on the tougher side. You have a choice of condiments like salt, yuzu kocho (a yuzu paste), and a chili paste. For the most part I used either salt or yuzu.

Chicken Karage This was lightly flash fried. The chicken was juicy and tender with barely any breading. The way I like it...

Chicken Meatballs They bring a plate with chicken meatball paste laid flat and they use a spoon to make a ball shape and slide it into the soup base. The texture of this was amazing. They mix all the bone and cartilage into the chicken meatballs giving it an amazing texture so you’re not just eating a ball of mush!

In between each different cut of meat, they come and skim off any fat on the top layer of the soup and we tried the soup each time in between adding food into soup base and the intensity was amazing.

Pork This was served with long thin shaved spring onions. You basically take the long slab of pork and roll it up with he spring onions on the inside. Yummo.

Veggies After the meat came the veggies. This included cabbage, enokis, yam noodles, chives, etc. This added sweetness to the chicken soup.

Rice Soup To end things off, they served up rice cooked in the chicken soup base with an egg over it...We are generally Lo carb but this was carb worthy.

Service Being that they did all the heavy lifting of cooking and serving, I definitely have no complaints. They were friendly and accommodating. I would def recommend trying this whenever in this...

"Mizutaki" is a kind of a one-pot dish cooked at the table a local dish mainly eaten in Fukuoka Prefecture and does not use any seasonings in order to make the most of the chicken broth.

Mizutaki had chicken soup, chopped chicken, minced chicken, vegetables, and finally "Ojiya" course. I also ate fried chicken. Both were excellent dishes.

The rice cooked with the leftover juice from the chicken boiled in white water is called "Ojiya". In Japan, it is made with leftover juice from various hot pot dishes. They are all very delicious.

At this restaurant, female staff dressed in kimono will cook the food in a pot on the table. I was able to eat deliciously without knowing how to eat. I was blown away by the...

The restaurant is conveniently located in Amu Plaza, 10th floor (the same building as Hakata station) but its not super obvious if your rely on gmaps. Just gonna drop it here so that anyone who does not read Japanese can find this gem easier.

This is our first time trying mizutaku, and it did not disappoint! We obviously didnt know the proper way to enjoy the dish, but the staffs guided us, and we got to appreciate how the taste of the soup developed over time as we added more ingredients. We went there around 3pm so the restaurant was empty except for us and one other guest. One of the staffs speak fluent english, allowing us to learn how to savour and...