Shancheng Hot Pot King

Good tip to start… The spicy is really spicy! I normally call myself a spicy food eater, I add hot sauce to everything. The spice broth here is spicy… It’s burns your stomach a little. This place allows you to order with an iPad with pictures! So even if you are not familiar with the food. The picture is a great help!

One of my favourite Sydney food joints! The hotpot is outstanding, go the half spicy half normal if you dare. Excellent value also. Go with a group as it’s a great social event.

Food was very tasty, but EXTREMELY HOT, I wud come back but this morning stomach ache gives me a second thought

I’m not particularly a fan of hotpot, and much prefer its food fest sharing Korean counterpart, but while it can be somewhat difficult to find this place does an alright job at what it does. The food is pretty tasty as long as you know how long to keep it cooking (if in doubt, leave it in longer).
Also, wear dark clothing unless you’re certain that whoever is dining opposite you isn’t just going to toss dumpling after dumpling into the pot without considering the splashy, scalding consequences.
The staff are fairly invisible and orders are taken on a tablet which is respectfully innovative.
I’ll probably go back… again.

Winters and Hotpot are like peanut butter and chocolate for me. Well, I correct myself nothing is as good as peanut butter and chocolate but steaming spicy hotpot on a cold winter night comes pretty darn close! And these people know their spicy, if they are calling it normal spicy, be prepared for some lip burning, chillie floating spicy. I didn’t even dare to try the very spicy! So the idea is simple, you go in, order your hotpot, which is either half broth and half soup or all broth. I always opt for the half n half options as it gives the mild but delicious chicken soup with bean sprouts and mushrooms on the side. The menu is on ipads which is very convenient as you can see the accompanying picture to make sure you know what you are ordering. Its a fun dining experience as you drop in slices of lamb, tofu, fish balls, vegetables etc. in the bubbling broth and wait for it to cook before you can bite into it. I always put everything in the chillie broth as I am a chillie junkie. And then soothe my burning mouth with some ice cold Tsing Tao beer. Also, in between take sips of the chicken broth to make peace with the war that the chillies have waged on in your stomach. Its like a game that keeps going on until you can’t eat no more. Whats even better about it is the fact that all of this does not come with a hefty price tag, it is a really affordable place and provides truly chicken soup for the soul.

I thought that this restaurant was okay, but far from spectacular. The quality of the meat, vegetables, and noodles was pretty good, but the broth was not very tasty to me. As for servers, they sucked big time! If you wanted anything, you would constantly have to flag someone down, and even that was sometimes a challenge. At the prices they charge, they should concentrate more on customer service. That accounts for my low rating. We will not be going back there again.

I love sichuan hotpot, and this is one of my favourite places to go for It in Sydney,
This place is also cool enough to have iPads for its hotpot ingredients selection screen.
And also there is a counter (untested yet!) where you can also order a hotpot for yourself if you are craving it, and no one else is wanting to go along.

HOT POT!
Who doesn’t like hot pot? (I didn’t before, but now I do.)
Hot pot is similar to fondue, except instead of cheese you have broth, and instead of dipping items in the cheese, you cook food in the broth.
I discovered this little gem via my local Asian Aussie friends. You know this place is legit when the patrons are mainly FOBs (Fresh Off the Boat/​immigrants so to speak.) For those unaware, there’s a big difference between Asian FOBs and Asian Aussies/​Asian Americans.
This was my second time here, and it was just my buddy and I on a Saturday evening. We arrived around 7pm and we were promptly greeted by a massive line. This place gets so busy on Saturday that they have a few rows of chairs outside the restaurant for people to wait. When we spoke to the hostess, she asked us if we wanted a smaller hot pot or the regular sized hot pot. The former was a wait of 15 minutes, the latter a wait of 30 – 40. We opted for the latter.
This place offers cooked food as well as hot pot, but people pretty much come here for the hot pot. When you enter you notice several hot pots just cooking the various assortment of thinly sliced meat, seafood, vegetables, and the like, with the wonderful smells wafting to your nose.
You order by making marks on a sheet they give you similar to when you go to a yum cha restaurant, and this goes for drinks too. On the sheet you can opt for a chicken broth, spicy broth, or half-​half. You can also mark how spicy you want it and how salty you want it. If you opt for the spicy broth, I recommend getting it mildly spicy… because normal spicy made me sweat buckets, and I kind of regretted it this morning, if you know what I mean.
We ordered the Wagyu beef, smoked pork belly, tasty mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and handmade noodles (don’t bother with egg or rice noodles.) We also got sides of sesame oil + garlic to dip the meat.
They should rename this place Skittles, cause I was tasting the rainbow with all the colourful flavours in my mouth.
That’s all you really need to know about this place. Come here, and come here with friends… though you can get a personal hot pot of your own and sit at a counter if you want. No one will judge you because they will understand that this place is that good.