心心石頭火鍋 — Restaurant in New Taipei

1st impression at entrance is, wow, really a very small restaurant. NT399 comes with 2 choice of basic soup. Others, you need to top up a small premium. 18-minute walk from BanQiao Train Station. 90-minute buffet steamboat with some really very basic selection, no seafood like fish,prawns, Claims etc (refer to my pictures). Staff is really strict. They started clearing our table & utensil & we were told to leave exactly at 90mins. Not even allowing some chill time after a meal to chit chat. This is a total turn-off. Really regret to say, I will not return. Advice to take their reviews with a pinch of salt. We were offered some free fish slice if we gave a 5 Star rating, but I rejected the offer. So, my reviews are true to the core...

We made a reservation at 7pm, but went to the ximen branch by mistake before 7pm. Ximen branch staff helped us to call this restaurant to let them know we are going there by taxi, but they said our table was given to other people already. It's normal practice for restaurants to hold you booking for 5-15 minutes before giving away your table, but they did it immediately at 7pm! If they do not allow any buffer for late arrival, they should have state this clearly in the booking confirmation, or call the guests before canceling their booking. This is completely unacceptable and ruined our birthday celebration!! Do not recommend this place with such poor...

Stumbled upon this all-you-can-eat hot pot place after going to the famous Xiaopan pineapple cake bakery. Such a nice surprise! Lunch (before 4pm) is TWD $369 (about CAD $15) for all you can eat meat (beef, pork, lamb, chicken, octopusball [pls try!], eggs), veggies (taro, enoki mushroom, king oyster mushroom, frozen tofu, a variety of fish cakes) and carbs. Seafood is available at extra charge. They do have a promo of 2 free scallops for 5-star Google review (declaration of interest), but I say they definitely...