八方悅鍋物 花蓮明心店(原中正店) — Restaurant in Hualien City

Pros: The meat was good (we ordered the prime beef) and lamb slices. The meat comes with a veg set. It includes all the rice/ dongfen/ noodles you can eat. There's a mince pork topping for your rice which tasted quite good. Includes drinks as well, and ice cream (altho this is just cheap tasting ice cream) Sauce is pretty nice, but if you ask me, the sauce is pretty standard across hotpot places in Taiwan.

Cons: The veg tasted bland.. I know, you might think it's just veg, but trust me, there IS good veg. Veg where you can taste the natural sweetness. This isn't it. Most importantly, this is first and foremost a hotpot restaurant, and the soup is just. very....

I like that: buffet-style sides that you can get, basically eat-all-vege-you-can, there's also ice cream, beverages, sauces to choose from.

However, service gets 3/5 stars because: the staff taking our order misunderstood what we were saying and picks the pricier menu that we did not intend to I have no idea are they doing it on purpose or simply misunderstanding. I hope this does not happens to other customers.

The atmosphere gets 4/5 star, it is still a good place to dine in for groups, however the allocated time is an hour and half, so you might need to rush and leave the seats to the...

Food was so worth it! Had the mala milk hotpot base with the seafood and meat combo for ~NT$700 (with everything else included)

This combo is rather premium, but the quality of the food was so good. Really could not stop eating. The marbled beef was so high in quality, fish slices were big and fresh, clams and squid were huge, and prawns were so sweet and juicy.

Not to mention, free flow vegetable station (wide variety of wild vegetables and mushrooms), drinks, and ice cream!

Really wish haidilao was...