Kublai Khan Mongolian Restaurant

A friend took me here who could not stop raving about this place and it did not disappoint.
For $ 28.50 each — the two of us had the Kublai Khan Special Banquet.
Entre — 2 spring rolls and 2 curry puffs each, both crispy and delicious dipped in soy sauce.
Mains — This is where the fun starts. You fill up a bowl from a selection of raw meats and salads, pour your chosen sauces over the top and then hand your bowl to the chef. From here you watch the chef pour your bowl of goodies onto a large hotplate and stir-​fry them with an oversized pair of chopsticks in a matter of seconds. The first time you do this, you may get the sauces completely wrong and it may not taste great — but here’s the deal. all you can eat! If you don’t get it right, just go back and try again!
Steamboat Dessert — Chocolate hot pot — After gorging ourselves with the all you can eat mains, out comes a chocolate hot pot with a plate full of sliced banana, apples and marshmallows. Dipped in chocolate, all 3 were delicious and despite being full, we managed to polish them all off.
As a Perth local, I am extremely jealous that Adelaide has an amazing Mongolian restaurant at their picking — as I am yet to find one over here! Highly recommended and will definitely be back the next time I’m visiting Adelaide.

I enjoyed eating here but the choices not as many as gengkis khan. But kublai khan has the stir fry noodles and fried rice. The environment is warmer and smaller. Quite nice. Really enjoy the dinner.

We booked for 6pm so car parking was not an issue at this time. Dinner was amazing and a new experience for me. We all chose our meat and veggies, then made our sauce. The boys got into a competition of who can handle the hottest sauce… It was buffet so we could keep going up and having as much of whatever we wanted. Great for those who eat a good amount. We had fondue for desert which was really nice, not something I have done in years. We weren’t rushed out of the place and we hung around for a while just chatting too. Price is good considering you can keep going back. Service is great.

For those who are still mourning the death of Sizzler in Adelaide (just because it was 20 years ago doesn’t mean I’m not), Kublai Khan is the next best buffet related thing.
It’s like stepping into a time warp back to the 80s, the wall is covered in those Chinese drawings your grandma used to have in her house and everything is burgundy coloured from chairs to tablecloth and carpet.
I am the master of a good buffet but I was totally off my game here — getting too excited and filling up on bread, noodles and prawn crackers. My tip? Skip the banquet option and go straight for the buffet cabinet of meats and veg. Pick your meats (pork, chicken, lamb, beef) and then pile the veg on high. The most exciting part of the entire process comes next… the MYO Mongolian BBQ sauce station.
I’m someone who manages to screw up making a simple balsamic dressing for a salad so I was slightly petrified when presented with 8 bowls of sauce to pour over my bowl of uncooked meat and veg. Don’t worry though even Jessica Simpson couldn’t screw this one up. Just go gung-​ho on the garlic, ginger, cooking wine and soy sauce. But a word of warning… the chili sauce has a sliding scale of anything less than 1 spoon is pathetically mild and anything more than 1 spoon is ridiculously hot.
Some little cutie in a chefs outfit stands behind a giant hotplate the entire night waiting for you to bring a bowl of raw meat and veg and then he cooks it up for you with giant chopsticks. You gotta see it to believe it.

Kublai Khan is an all you can eat Mongolian BBQ. The decorations are fun and festive and the service friendly.
The concept is fun. You choose your own, meat, vegetables and sauces and it gets BBQ right in front of your eyes.
If you can really knock back a lot of food this place is good value for money, at $ 22.50 for the BBQ ($ 19.50 for a vegetarian). This includes prawn cracker, rice, noodles and bread.
The reasons why they lose stars. Although you can choose vegetarian food, the BBQ will have just been cooking meet prior to your veggies going on. This doesn’t bother me massively, but I know other vegos that would mind.
The noodles. I have been to Mongolian BBQs before where the noodles are unflavoured and you include them with you BBQ ingredients and sauces so that your meal ends up tasting how you wanted it to. I have a small issue with the pre-​flavoured noodles that you add at the end, as it ruins the whole idea of picking your own flavours. Also I don’t trust those under 10s serving themselves not to cough on them/​touch them.
Would recommend for a big group of hungry people.
Oh and the wine is super cheap which is worth a mention. get the half carafe of rose for yourself if you’re not driving :-P

I love the concept of this place, you choose your meat, veggies and sauce, take it to the guy with the giant shield and he’ll cook it. Awesome right?
It’s loads of fun playing around with different textures and flavours. The meat is lovely, super thinly sliced and frozen, so when it’s cooked it is nice and tender.
I’ve always had a great time here, and I’d happily go back again.

‘Everyone is different.’ One of the more frequently voiced feel-​good quotes we homo sapiens have managed to come up with. Personally, I don’t believe it, but, if you do, the Kublai Khan is where everyone becomes one glorious, unified lump of meat, tissue and bone.
$ 20. All you can eat. But that’s not the good part. The good part is how you get your food. ‘What’s that?’ cries the unbeliever. ‘They don’t bring my food to me?! Outrage!’ Quiet, crier! Trust me. This is how it goes. You get a bowl. You fill it with a selection of frozen meats and vegetables. You drown it in whatever sauces take your fancy. You hand your bowl to one of the two Asian gentleman (there’s a happy one and a sad one), and they cook it for you before your very eyes. I like to give it to the sad one, as he puts on a bit of a show once he’s finished cooking your meal. After that, throw in some rice or noodles, and you’ve got your meal. And once you’ve finished, you get to go up for another.
After many visits to the Kublai Khan, the novelty has not worn old. But the novelty aside, the food tastes wonderful. It’s a great deal of fun testing different combinations of sauce to find your favourite. I won’t give you any tips here. But I will give you a challenge. The other reviewers have warned you about the chilli. You know what I say?
Join me, as a six scoop bandit. Sure, my taste buds don’t quite work as well as they once did, and sometimes I catch whispers from opaque collections of shadow: ‘Chilli… Chilli!’ but I’ve never found either of these things to have gotten in the way of my daily routine.

After having been to a restaurant of the same name in Melbourne, I had to try this place when I saw it. I’ve been to two very similar places before, and they’re all roughly equal.
Now, if it’s your first experience, you’ll find it all a little bit strange to begin with, but it’s easy. You choose your meat and your veggies. The meat is frozen (although from memory the veggies aren’t), and from there, you choose a combination of various liquids with which the dish will be cooked. My advice is just to keep it simple at first. If you keep heaping shit on, it will taste pretty ordinary. And go easy with the chilli, because (and I hope I’m not being too rude here) it will fuck your shit up if you overdo it.
Anyway, it all gets cooked on what’s supposed to be a huge shield. It all happens pretty quickly. One of the dangers is that it’s easy to make everything taste the same, so follow directions for specific flavours rather than just toss stuff in. I mean, these dudes swept across Eurasia a few centuries ago, then cooked and ate everything. Trust them on what tastes alright, they experimented a shitload so you don’t have to.
Good place.

The menu provides you with history lesson, on the origin of the Mongolian cooking.
Apparently Ghenghis Khan and his army would travel long journey’s through the mountains where temperature was below zero. They killed wild animals for food, and the meat was shaved and stored in their packs. The shields were upturned and used as a hotplate to cook the meals…
Reading this while waiting for the first round of drinks to come out is almost as entertaining as watching your meal prepared in front of you. I advise everyone to do the banquet round, as you make a selection of meat, vegetables and marinate, and the bonus is you can go up as many times as you want.
Tips:
When they warn you to go easy on the chilli oil, they are serious.
You can get drunk off the chocolate fondue.

This place holds some good memories for me and is the home of one of my favourite waiters in Adelaide (he probably owns the place). I call him Ta, thank you… quite a catchy name I think, and when you visit you will understand why.
It is a Mongolian BBQ restaurant, where you select all your vegetables and thin frozen slices of meat from a buffet, you then add your choice of sauces and progress down the cue to the guys on the hot plate. The hotplate is circular and a chef stands on either side of the disk as he skillfully stirfrys your selection using nothing more that an oversize pair of chopsticks. Impressive and novel it is… the end result, however is essentially your own doing and mine is never that amazing, I’m like a subway reject, always picking the wrong combinations.
The hollow-​ish seasame seeded breadsticks they give you to begin are usually the highlight of the meal for me, and they are super delicious. A visit to Kublai Kahn is also a good opportunity to relive your youth and order a fruit cup, or ‘traffic light’… it’s a colourful sugar loaded no alcoholic beverage they do particularily well. Kublai Kahn seems moderately expensive for a self-​made stirfry but the buffet is all you can eat, so if you’ve got a big appetite it’s worthwhile.
This place is a bit of fun and caters well for large groups, special occasions and families.