tasty pot — Restaurant in Milwaukie

5/5 for ambiance, price, and location. 4/5 for service. 3/5 for overall food quality.

It's a wonderful addition to this section of SE 82nd Ave. It's well price for variety of pot options. The sides are mid-range. Drinks are on the higher end.

The hotpot size is more for individual though still enough to share or for family style with added sides. They go around to refill broth to your pot as requested. The hotpot stayed hot throughout our meal.

We ordered Seafood Lobster with original broth for $21.99. You can get Seafood Lobster with Thai broth. It's super affordable and cheap for a whole lobster tail! The original broth was clear, kept its flavor and taste through the end. I never understand or care for the imitation crab!!!!! Loved all the mushrooms and knots seaweed came with it. Didn't care much for the fish ball. Extremely disappointed with only 1 small piece of taro!!!!! The price included clear noodle and a bowl of steamed rice. You can get instant noodle for $1.50 extra.

Size ordered: Tempura, Pork Blood Rice Cake, Fish Tofu, $4.70 each. I wouldn't order them again. I didn't taste any actual pork blood; more like sticky rice paste in cubes. The fish tofu looked tofu like fried and texture tasted like fish balls. Tempura was soggy but I expected lightly bread and fried.

Size of Quail Egg, $3.00 for 8 canned quail egg saved the day from disappointment of tempura, pork blood rice cake, and fish tofu.

Two bottles of sauce at each table. One is soybean paste. The other is water down soy sauce I barely tasted any flavor.

Milk Creme Black Tea, $6.75 with 0.75 cent for each topping (pudding and grass jelly), total of $8.25: it was alright, nothing stood out. I was able to select sugar and ice level on this drink but not all drinks have this option.

You order from a tablet and pay for with a printed receipt.

The drink order on tablet would be useful if they list main ingredients instead of only name...

First time here. We came came in and we’re told to sit where we wanted. There were three of us and she came over and she said she wanted us to move to a different booth. We said we didn’t want to and she said she wanted us too. So we picked our stuff up and moved to a different booth. That was our first impression. Then we ordered and when you order you’re given an iPad and you have to put the order in yourself, not sure I like that. They also don’t give you the option of leaving anything out of your meal, let’s say cabbage as I can’t have cabbage. We ordered potstickers, the vegetarian hot pot and the lamb hot pot. The potstickers were good the hot pot not so much. The broth was very watery on both of them and tasted like squeezed out soy water no flavor and what flavor was there was fishy tasting. then we all had to pick out what we didn’t want or could not eat want because we weren’t allowed to make any changes or requests.

Service – she was not real friendly, and not helpful at all. Felt like she was annoyed we were there.

Overall – None of us will return, there just wasn’t enough flavor in their small menu for the hot pot broth and no deviating. But if you want potstickers, they were good. Gave 2 stars for the pot stickers otherwise would...

I wish I had better things to say, but we paid $40 for just two bowls and found a piece of plastic in the food. It looked like an oil packet. When I showed staff, they simply swapped the sauce bowl i put the piece in, without any apology or explanation. The restaurant is loud, staff rush everything, and they occasionally yelled at each other in Chinese. The experience felt uneven, as if larger parties or people who spoke Chinese were treated better. Overall, definitely not worth the price or...