Go-In Hotpot Train

Highlights: The novelty. The handmade noodles. The tofu puffs. The enoki mushrooms. The dumplings. The delicious, bubbling, laksa broth. Laughing as you try to sneak some kind of giant fried thing off a plate that came around on the train. A belly full of tasty soup.
Lowlights: The waitress was useless, couldn’t answer our questions, we hadn’t been before and she didn’t explain anything about how it worked so we floundered a little at the beginning. You couldn’t seem to turn down the gas burner, it was either off or on really high.
I’d say go-​in and have a go! You choose your soup base off the menu (I recommend the laksa) then you order your proteins and noodles. Vegetarian options come around on the train. You can also help yourself to a large variety of sauces and herbs. We spent about $ 25 each in the end, including a couple of Heinekens. You will burn your mouth and you will be confused, but you’ll have fun.

I’ve been here once.
Food is not expensive, it is a fun place to talk to friends (maybe just one or two as everyone sits in front of the train). the broth is ok but gets amazingly revamped with the add ons, both vegetarian and the flesh kind.
I wish there were signs for the ingredients passing by, but other than that it is a nice, fun, and tasty experience (depends on your skills — no cook to blame but yourself — aha!), .
Give it a try!

I came here for the novelty factor. I love styles of dining that involve moving trains, sharing, make-​your-​own-​dish-​options, and unidentifiable foods on small plates. Hot-​pot is designed for people like me, arseholes who can’t just order off the damned menu.
There used to be a really crap sushi train place on these premises and when they shut down, Go-​In Hotpot entrepreneurially set up a Hot-​Pot train. You don’t want to floudner when you walk in, so this is how it works. You take a seat at the train, or at one of the booths with your group of friends (in my case just one other friend). From the menu you order your choice of hot-​pot base — I would recommend going for something simple like a pork broth. You wanna let the flavours of mysterious meat balls and lotus roots emerge. Then you order a selection of meat/​fish plates from the menu — these (thankfully) don’t go round the train.
I stupidly chose the intense ‘chicken and beancurd pudding’ base. This was sort of like drinking a bottle of chilli oil. It wasn’t bad, but I’d much prefer a lighter, clear broth. Anyway, so the waitress brings out your hotpot and sets it on a teeny-​tiny little fire in front of you. Then you cook shit in it. Yeh, I know right? FUN. I would recommend going with a big group of people so you can order loads of little plates of thineys to cook in your pot. Or go with one other person, order way too much and blow a bit more cash than you intended (like I did).
Advice on cooking in your hot-​pot: if you’re running out of broth get them to do a little top-​up with hot water. If you’re cooking something that might get soggy quick, like delicate chicken balls, just hold them in the bubbling hot broth, don’t let them swim off. Use your second bowl as a cooling area — your soup is like Mount Vesuvius right now you don’t want to try and drink it straight from the flame. Get the lotus root — that that looks like sliced potato with big holes in it. Get the egg chicken dumplings — the wrapping is made of a wafer thin omelette. Imagine that! Oh and handmade noodles — trust me.