Chongqing Chicken Pot — Restaurant in Houston

I enjoy the concept of this restaurant: you eat your meal of meat/seafood stew and then they add water and you can add your sides of additional meats and vegetables to create a hot pot.

I shared my shrimp dish (medium) with two others. I think the medium size can be shared between three only if you order at least 4-5 sides later for the hot pot. The shrimp dish had at least 12 large shrimps which wasn't bad. I wish the shrimp was already peeled because it was difficult to peel since it was scorching hot.

Our friends ordered the beef brisket which was delicious and easy to eat (no bone or peeling necessary) so I'd recommend that if you come. I thought all the dishes would be comparable but differ in the meat we ordered but our shrimp dish seemed to lack potato and we wish that it had been present to balance the other intense flavors of the dish (onion, ginger, bell peppers, shrimp).

As for the sides, the dumplings (6) did not have much filling, they weren't worth it. I really enjoyed the chiba tofu, the enoki mushroom, blood curds. We also got glass noodles, potato, corn on the cob, and Chinese cabbage which weren't remarkable.

Also to note, despite reiterating that we wanted our dishes to be mild, both of our stews ended up being medium spice level unfortunately.

Overall, I really enjoyed the quality of the ingredients and the natural flavors of the dish and hot pot!

Side note: adding rice is an additional $1 per bowl which I wasn't a fan of.

Service was alright- hot pot is labor intensive and the workers had to heat up / turn off the burner and pour water into the stew to turn it into hot pot for each table so I can understand why the staff was busy and may not have been as attentive as we'd like. While we had to call the waiters several times, either to refill the water in the hot pot, to give us napkins, or to give us the bill, they eventually got it done with a great attitude.

Overall, it's a decent place for hot pot! It's not the cheapest nor the most expensive place ever but the ingredients were great quality and the dishes were...

Chongqing Chicken Pot is located in one of the newer strips in Chinatown. It offers a variety of meats from chicken to frog legs, which you can add broth to and eat as hot pot after.

I have been to Chongqing Chicken Pot numerous times with my friends, and I think it has been a hit for many!

You definitely have to come with an empty stomach and a big appetite. I always get the chicken pot to eat with rice first. It comes with in a marinade with lots of onions, shallots, and garlic. If you’re vietnamese and like gà kho, then you will definitely like this part!

I like to pour in the chicken and pork based broth after finishing about 2/3 of the chicken with rice. The broth and the chicken marinade goes well together making the broth a very deep flavor.

The key ingredients you must add into the hotpot are the Korean rice cake slices, hot pot beef, and taro! I think the hot pot beef here is soft and of higher quality than other hotpot places. There is a sauce bar for you to make your own sauve to dip all your beef and other hotpot items into, as well.

The staff is always nice when I visit. You might have to wave to them when you want the broth, but other than that, they’re pretty attentive and take away plates that are done pretty quickly.

Overall, I definitely recommend this place if you want to try something unique and love a hearty and deep hotpot or well-seasoned, marinated meats. It is one of my favorite...

I thought finding parking would be the most difficult part of dining, but Chongqing's chicken proved to be a tougher battle.

Someone once told me that Chongqing was a must-go when visiting Houston. And then Mikey Chen echoed that so I knew I had to give it a try. If you know anything about this place, you'll already know how this meal works. Chicken first. Devour that. Water goes in. Hot pot time!

Between a friend and I, we ordered the chicken (medium) and beef pot (small). They come in a deceivingly large pots with lots of veggies. The first thing I noticed was the amount of oil in the dishes. The second was the amount of bones - specifically for the chicken. It was actually annoying to eat because of how many tiny bones there were. I didn't find a single piece that wasn't more than 50% bone so I was constantly having to spit them out. The beef pot was much easier to eat. Still, we killed them both.

Both dishes had great flavor but we definitely over ordered because we were full before we could even try the hot pot. Next time, I would probably just get one medium chicken or beef pot, and save my stomach for the second part of...