雅香石頭火鍋(西門總店) — Restaurant in Wanhua District

Stone hotpot - stir fry soup paste (fixed) n onions then add in clear soup to start. Customers choose ingredients fr fridge chargeable by colour of plate. Base charge of NT 100 for soup base n NT 20/pax for sauces.

古早味, a different experience for d young. I didn't like d part - d meats (choose fr chicken, pork, beef n mutton) were cooked not in my presence - I was told to pick up d ingredients fr d fridge. We were left to eat, no time limit.

Only 9 tables of 2-3 pax occupied while d rest of d customers were still made to q outside. Reason: not enough staff to handle so many customers so they didn't let all in to fill up all d tables. Restaurant also opened late @11.36 coz short-handed. We were left standing in d cold...

Food wise, it's a little more pricey n there's also little transparency in d totalling of d...

Nice Taiwan local style hotpot near Ximen. The staff will ask for your order of meat first, help stir fry the meat in the pot and take it out half-cooked. Meanwhile you go to the fridge and take whatever dishes you want to add. Then they add in everything else, pour the broth and soup. Then you add in the half-cooked meat again when it comes to boil. The vinegar, garlic, chilli, cilantro and magic sauce mixture is a must, if not the food won't taste complete. A little cramped. Will be good to add an english name or pinyin to the shop for those who can't read chinese so that we can find the shop again next...

Very old school claypot steamboat which taste fantastic. They are using black pork oil to fried the food before putting in the soup to give more flavours to the steamboat. Had the chicken, pork belly, fish, mushroom, dumplings and yam. Highly recommended the fried glutton and fried chicken. Do note that the place is pretty smelly from the oily smell from frying, so do not expect it to be a clean environment. But overall, I would still definitely...