My friends and I came here for a hotpot dinner and we all ended up with diarrhea and sore throat. I had the worst symptoms among all with a fever as well, sick for a week and still not fully recovered. I am suspecting this place to be unsanitary and food mishandled in the kitchen. I am making a complaint to the NY Department of Health and hopefully they get audited to ensure others are safe from dining here.
My friends and I came here for a hotpot dinner and we all ended up with diarrhea and sore throat. I had the worst symptoms among all with a fever as well, sick for a week and still not fully recovered. I am suspecting this place to be unsanitary and food mishandled in the kitchen. I am making a complaint to the NY Department of Health and hopefully they get audited to ensure others are safe from dining here.
TL;DR:Do not go to this place. If you're looking to eat hotpot, find another joint in Main Street to cater yourself. Prices are way out of proportions and meals are less than ideal in portions. You'll be looking at paying 50% more than what you would normally spend at a better, if not comparative, restaurant, including all-you-can eat hotpot places.Full Experience and Review:A party of 3 including me went to try this place a while back when it first opened. We thought it wasn't bad, but we immediately identified the price as the main issue of the restaurant. Since then I haven't crossed the restaurant enough to warrant another time to try until recently.Coincidently, the same party which I had dined with joined me again for a second time, and my formal review of the place is hence:The prices to experience a hotpot dinner here are still way overblown. A can of soda will cost $2.50, a platter of meat will cost $10 (a normal price yes until you realize the portion doesn't even reach 20 slices), and they even charge you for sauces (really?! No other hotpot places here in Flushing does that I believe...). Broth choices and their respective prices are normal though; however, all other items on their menu are still ludicrously expensive.In the main dining area, there are fridges lined up nearby that stocks the usual miscellaneous ingredients to boil and eat besides thinly sliced meat for hotpot, but the prices there are still exorbitant. Platters of dried tofu or imitation crab or more will range from $6.00 to $10.00 depending on the colored platter they set it in, which I ask: why? A platter of enoki mushrooms and maybe some corn may equate to a platter of meat (not in fridge by the way— ordered separately) in terms of pricing, which isn't even abundant in the first place. I know this isn't an all-you-can eat hotpot joint, but me and my friends' verdict on our satiation later on in this review will make it clear that eating here at a reasonable price is not negotiable.Besides the platters, they also have some of the usual hotpot ingredients on skewers, in the case you want to select your own portions I guess? They mainly try to appeal you with the price-listing of $0.60 per skewers, but some are just downright not worth that price. They had two slivers of fish tofu— not even half a centimeter thick each— pierced through one skewer as a serving; isn't a whole block of fish tofu worth $0.60 instead? If you're looking for a diverse meal to eat during hotpot here, those skewers are the only legitimate way to experience such and they can really stack up to improperly proportional prices.At the end of my company's meal, we left no waste, really, and truth be told, we weren't completely full— only enough to call it a night. And the bill totaled to be approximately $180 excluding tips and taxes: $180 for 5 plates of meat (red platters), 4 plates of vegetables (green platters), maybe 2 yellow platters, and the rest skewers and food from the kitchen (i.e., chicken wings and spicy fried tofu). My friends and I could have gotten to an all-you-can eat hotpot in Mainstreet that charges at most $40 per person instead and we still would have paid less!Do not go to this place. Every conceivable option in an attempt to enjoy hotpot are price-tagged and nothing is given (charging sauces for hotpot, my god...). It's such a shame because the restaurant's interior is actually appealing and besides the hotpot, the food we got from the kitchens were good. Regardless, skip this place to save yourself a significant amount of money and disappointment...
(Translated by Google) After eating, I went home and pulled my stomach two or three times. The stuff is expensive and the portion is small.(Original)吃完回家拉了两三次肚子，东西贼贵 而且份量少 锅底快烧干了也没人来添
(Translated by Google) I ordered a Fat Niu Mala Tang 12, a large plate chicken 19, a total of 37 cash, said that the other is tax, I don't know which country the tax is so expensive. . . I asked and told me that the large plate chicken is 21, and your menu is all 19, so you can raise the price with me casually? Even if the price increases, the tax will be higher than 10%. . . Your home is quite funny. Take a closer look at other reviews. There is indeed a tradition of slaughtering customers. . . It’s not someone who’s missing the one or two yuan, it’s just that the business is not honest(Original)点了一个肥牛麻辣烫12、一个大份大盘鸡19，一共收我37cash，说其他的是税，咱不知道这是哪个国家的税 这么贵。。。问了一下，跟我说大盘鸡是21，你家菜单上都是19，在这跟我随口涨价？就算涨价了，这税收的也高于了10%了吧。。。你家挺逗 仔细看看其他评论 确实有宰客的传统。。。不是谁差那一块两块的，只是做生意不老实
法拉盛第一大坑。又贵东西又少
体验相当差，没点啥东西160，服务差，签百分15小费还嫌少，强行让顾客给签20！！中年妇女态度极其恶劣！
This place is really overpriced. 1 skewer is like $0.70? And the stuff on the skewer are worth like $0.10. Like..... also, there’s like green boxes and red boxes for a certain price. Portions are very small and very pricey. The total was $90. Without tax and nobody was full. It tasted okay tho. The fried pork had too much spice peppercorn taste and when we ordered a second plate of beef. They forgot about it. But, food tastes okay.
Piss flies, house flies everywhere. Place is nasty.
Piss flies, house flies everywhere. Place is nasty.