Dolar Shop Hot Pot Review

The name may sound like everything is a dollar but it's not. I wouldn't try this place if it wasn't their $1 broth promo. It's ok big in there and decorated very fancy in a way. There are a bunch of snacks you can eat while you wait (eat as much as you can, you are paying for it!)

The wait was quite long, not sure if it's the promo that attract so many people or is it because it's Friday night?

When you are seated, some lady will come and ask to make this sauce for you. I have no clue what she was gonna do and all she did was stand there. I'm like WTF? Then she said a little bit? (red pepper) I said sure and she made the sauce. I didn't really like that sauce, it had a spicy taste with ginger, garlic and green onion. I got the ox sauce and seafood sauce which were good.

There were only 3 choices for the $1 broth, mushroom, spicy and tomatoe. We both got the tomatoe oxtail broth. Regular was $4.99.

                                     

We ordered only a few things shrimp pate ($11.99), watercress ($5.99), fried bean curd ($6.99) and marble beef ($8.99).

There was a condiment fee of $3.99 per person. I didn't know about it and neither did my friend. My other friend who also ate there but not with us said it says on their menu. If I knew I would eat as much "condiments" as I can. I feel like they just took an extra $3.99 from me...

The food was just so-so. Small portions and expensive. I wanted to try the fried bean curd for awhile and it was so bad. It had a strong oil taste to it which was really ew. I had to dip it into the sauce like crazy to get rid of that oil taste. It was quite expensive for only like 7 pieces. ($1 per piece...)

The shrimp pate wasn't that special but the flavour was not bad. It had a nice shrimp taste and bouncy but not that bouncy. (I can buy a pound of shrimp and make my own paste for $8.99...)

                                     

Normally the soup would give the food some flavour but I felt like I was just there for the sauce.

Service was so-so only. it's nice that they covered my jacket with this bag so it doesn't smell after. I didn't like how that guy was counting the money infront of us. Normally they take it to the counter and count or something.

We also had to ask for the ice cream, I believe that is part of the "condiment", getting as much as we can out of it! The best thing was the ice cream, so good! Yet so sad.

                                    

You should know my answer by now, NO, not coming back!