Little Q Hot Pot

Bland and overpriced. My wife and I had the szechuan mala hot pot. Until trying Little Q hot pot, we didn't know that a szechuan mala hot pot could taste so bland. It wasn't spicy or numbing at all. It had zero flavor. It was like having a hot pot with pure chicken broth. There were some herbs and chiles floating around but they didn't add anything.

I've had hot pot all over asia (china, taiwan, thailand, japan..). This is the first time I've ever had a bad hot pot. So it's not like it's easy to have a bad hot pot. Little Q managed to do it. We usually go to a place in chinatown that begins with a J. That place is half the price and quadruple the flavor. We paid $46 including tip for two people just for food, no drinks. Very overpriced for hot pot which takes very little effort to prepare (as the food is cooked by the customer). Very disappointed with this restaurant.

Also, I just remembered. They don't provide mini tongs for the meat. We had to ask for some extra chopsticks to handle the raw meat. Like they expected us to use the same chopsticks we're eating with (or our bare hands) to handle raw meat.