Tasty Pot — Restaurant in Sacramento

When it first opened, it was good. Service was good, flavor was good and I enjoyed being a regular here. I went last winter and saw that they got rid of the asian lady and Asian man who is a like 30-40 years old. They were always so quick, attentive and cleaned so fast. Never had an issue. NOW, the servers are not good. I can tell they changed orders because they’re offering rice plates. They let us sample it awhile back and it’s mid. Nothing special about it, not sure why they still offer it. Just stick to the hot pots. The hot pots are still great! The servers are the reason I don’t continue being a regular. They take forever taking the orders, they don’t look presentable and they’re slow. It takes two of them for the whole place when the place is small. The prior servers did it by themselves and had no issues regarding of how busy it was. They need to hire them. They also added a new spot next to the ice cream and it’s all the meat they serve you like the duck or whatever. It looks dry and unappealing. Looks messy too. Go back to original servers or owner. Not sure what happened to the place.

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I've been to Tasty Pot in other locations before but this one was not a particularly pleasant experience. The food itself was fine, but for nearly $20 for a small single serving hotpot, I expect better dine in experience. First of all, the restaurant itself looked run down and the atmosphere was off, was seated near the door and told we couldn't sit other seat because of party size. So was forced to wait for 1.5 hours while heavy wind drafts blew in our face with people coming in and out. Secondly, service was incredibly slow. The order was taken out of order and the table that came in after us finished eating and paying before we even received our food. I had to stand up and ask for rice because I knew they probably wouldn't have given us it if I didn't remind. I have empathy for service workers over this workers shortage but I don't understand how pouring broth over a hot pot would take almost 2 hours to come out. I regretted coming here because it would have been faster to just make hot pot at home if I knew the wait would...

Once I heard they have new items in the menu, I had to go check it out. . The new menu items were roast duck with rice and choy sum veggies. Ox tail over a bed of veggies, with pork bone soup, rice, and a bowl of grape. . I like getting the lamb hot pot mold spicy and it was perfect bowl of comfort food. The flavor wasn't salty and hits the spot. . The roast duck over rice, the roast duck was crispy with the skin. Duck wasn't too salty. The only improvement is if the duck was served a little more temperature hot, and it would be perfect. . Ox tail was over a bed of veggies. The veggies were a little oily. There was about 6 pieces of Ox tail. Also served with a bowl of rice. Flavor was good. . Overall I had a great time trying the new items and of course the hot pot hit the spot. I would come back and get more hot pot when I'm not craving some ayce hot pot options. Hope this review helps. Thanks for reading. Have a...