1 Pot

Compare to Tampa Florida, this is a very good restaurant. I believe they are truly 4 stars restaurant may be a bit more. The restaurant name is one pot. It is truly one pot of good hot pot soup. Their special is the $ 13 CAD for one pot include seafood and meat. To me it is a good deal.
We have beef soup base. It is good clear soup. The meat include slice beef, shrimp, meat ball, dumpling, fish cake, tofu, cabbage, straw mushroom and more. We enjoy it very much.
We also have 5 dishes of dim sum. Monday to Thursday is half price but not today. We have the soup dumpling. It is decent compare to Tampa. If the skin can be thinner will be better. We have fried rice pack, pig feet, pig kidney and pig liver, and fried intestine. All this are good taste.
They are not too busy that time. Service serve with a smile. It was pleasant to eat there.

All you can eat hot pot with a varied menu. Other Unilocalers have left thorough descriptions of the ordering process, so I won’t repeat that.
Recently visited on a Friday after work for an early supper. The restaurant was only about ¼ full. With that, service was quick with minimal waits for new orders of dishes.
My favourite add-​ins are the sliced beef and lamb. Love the sauce buffet; really enjoyed sauces based on the garlic chili sauce.

The food and atmosphere was wonderful. The staff was patient and courteous. I would highly recommend trying this restaurant.

All the other reviews have already explained what hot pot is so this review is just going to tell you how to get the most amount of food out or your experience at 1 Pot because why else would you go to an all you can eat place. Please don’t judge me.
1. My mom says that hot pot orginated in Sichuan, which I don’t think is actually true but anyway, people there love spicy food. Like super love. In Sichuan people eat hot pot in the summer so that they can sweat a lot and thereby cool off. It is insane. If you order a spicy broth and you are not used to crazy Sichuan levels of spicyness go for the «small» level of spice. Even my crazy spice-​loving friends got «medium» and they were crying. I have never seen someone get «big» spice. If you are crying and drinking water you cannot also be stuffing your face — which is the point right?
2. If you check in on Facebook they will give you the deluxe hot pot menu for the same price as the original. The deluxe includes some extra dim sum dishes (like egg-​custard buns, which are soooo good).
3. They are actually quite strict about their two hour limit and although they won’t kick you out they won’t let you order anything else. The wait staff probably won’t pay much attention to you after your first few orders so if you want more food you’ll have to actively flag them down.
4. I feel terrible saying this as a vegetarian but don’t order a ton of leafy vegetables (eg. lettuce, cabbage, etc) because they will bring you a huge basket of it. Also, if you ordered a spicy broth I would not recommend cooking any vegetables in the soup unless you are really brave because they tend to collect all the chili oil and there’s no real buffer against the spice so you and your mouth will probably just die.
5. Order just one of an item to try it. You might also want to confirm that the thing you want is called what you think it is when reordering. Most of their deluxe dim sum items were delicious (according to my friends) and fried steamed buns are also great. Otherwise, I think it’s better to forgo the pre-​cooked stuff and stick to hot pot. Normally at home, we don’t cook starchy things like noodles until the end because they will soak up all the broth and at that point you’re probably too full for noodles anyway.
In conclusion, hot pot is a fun experience that I always associate with happy times with family and friends. Try everything that sounds interesting even if you don’t know what it is! You might regret it but you can just hide the leftovers in your soup pot if you don’t like it. I’m just kidding!!! Please don’t actually waste food like that; they will get mad and wasting food is bad for everyone. Have fun!

Never again. The staff (not the waitress — she is nice) was beyond rude. Kept waiting whilst others go to go in and there was two of us. Made to pay cash — I call income tax scam going on here. They gave some lame excuse about next day transactions — that is garbage. Was told I can’t stay long to smoke, to hurry up and get out. the table was dirty, they never bring more hot water for the tea and it was really dirty, disgusting bathrooms. I think the couches with the pillows have bugs — that dirty and gross. I will definitely find and patronize another place where I am more welcome. Enough people willing to take my biz in Calgary with the downturn. Why would I go where I am not welcome. Oh yes — your game policy after 9 on week nights is nuts. Do you really have that much business on a wednesday or thursday you can refuse people their rights? People want to play games or didn’t you get the memo?

Calgary at 14 °F? Hot pot must be pretty popular here, if not a basic necessity.
The first thing that hit me when I entered was the odor — don’t wear your nice clothes here, or they will smell of that odor. The odor will go away after a few days. Otherwise, it’s an okay hot pot place. The seafood is frozen, of course… this is Calgary, not Vancouver. Note that some of the items are seriously per item, rather than per serving — you have to order the exact number of mushrooms, exact number of shrimp, exact number of oysters, exact number of tiny steamed buns. Meanwhile, some items are by the bunchful, so that’s rather confusing.
The chicken feet is awful… tougher than a rubber doggy bone.

Had extra work to do after work hours with colleagues. But we were hungry and figured we could do it over dinner. 1 Pot was recommended and as I had never had Korean style hot pot I was definitely up for it. They were really great about giving us some time to finish off the work part before we got to the cooking part. As we went straight after work it was quiet but by 6pm it was packed with people waiting. They take reservations so would highly recommend that if you turn into a hungry monster and cant wait.
1. Start by picking your soup base — all 3 of us had different ones and all delicious. We ended up eating truly asian style by stealing each other food out of the pots so really cant remember which base I preferred but they were all tasty.
2. Choose the items you want to cook in it. Ordering was left up to my collegue who had been there before so we ended up with things I would never have thought of — like quails eggs. We had mussels, shrimp, noodles, veg, beef, lamb, chicken, fish paste things and a bunch of others I don’t remember.
3. They also have this sauce buffet — take one, take 2 or mix and match and make your own combo. Not gonna lie that I had a mix of sesame paste and hoisin. Everything was dunked in it. Would have licked the bowl clean — that stuff is amazing!
Dessert didn’t happen cause we ate everything and then ate a little more, so no space left.
Heard they have great specials that they advertise on their facebook page. In July they had their All u Can Eat Menu, only $ 19.99 per person! Now that’s some deal! Would go back regardless of any deals they have on.

1 Pot has been my go to AYCE hot pot restaurant since it opened but now with all the new restaurants in town I don’t know how it compares. I like going to 1 Pot because you have your individual pot, there’s a variety of food and there are lots of sauces to choose from. I can’t go back to sharing a pot with others because the food I put into the pot always gets eaten. I’ve tried quite a few different soup bases but now my favorite is the tomato mushroom because after 30 – 45 minutes the broth gets really flavorful and tomatoy. The quality of the food is pretty good. I’m obsessed with the fried bun with condensed milk… because what’s not to like?
It’s a good place to bring people that haven’t had hot pot before or people with dietary restrictions.

Ah, I’m pretty impressed with the hot pot selection at 1 Pot. I went based on a recommendation from someone in the industry plus Dale E, Ange and Jay D (all three who I are always dead on about good food in the city).
Stay away from the Schezuan broth unless you have an iron stomach. I was sweating — as in droplets coming off my face and neck — the whole time. It was pretty embarrassing, I swiped extra napkins off an adjacent table. I know if you let sweat drip off and not wipe it off, it will cool you down. However, my pride got in the way, hence the extra napkins.
Yummy dishes: fried spring rolls (nice filling); shrimp and fish paste (good flavour); wonton (crunchy, good texture, sweet); oysters (very small but fresh); taro, Korean cake, and nice veggies.
Price is right — about $ 30 for all-​you-​can-​eat and all-​you-​can-​gain. I’ll be back, though I want to try the hot pot at Regency and retry hot pot at the Chinese Cultural Restaurant.
Insider tip: Don’t go here if you are on a first date. If you’re like me, it will probably be your last.

Three and a half stars.
1 Pot is an AYCE hot pot restaurant with a twist — you get your own pot of broth rather than sharing communal pots of broth. There is an extensive list of soups to choose from although there is an additional charge for most soups. It would be nice if your own pot of broth had a divider down the middle so that you can choose two soups for yourself. After you pick your broth, then you pick your food from a list, which is also quite extensive, although on the night I went, there were some delicious items that they ran out of (including lobster balls!). Missing from the list is watercress, which is my absolute favourite food to eat at hot pot and there is an additional charge for enoki mushrooms. Hot pot at the cultural central always has watercress and enoki mushrooms — all included! There is a well-​laid out sauce station with everything you’d need.
There is also cooked food available — I recommend the chicken wings and fried buns with condensed milk. Delicious!
After your meal, ask for the off-​the-​menu mango tapioca cold soup-​like dessert. It is refreshing and the perfect end to the sodium-​laden meal.

After hitting my early 30’s I thought «yeah it’s time to leave somethings behind in my 20’s». Stuff like cheesy pick up lines, t-​shirts with quirky graphic and artwork from «fav local indie band», sociopath clown-​make-​up «friends», and abusing my body at the All-​You-​Can-​Eat joints.
Yes growing up is making peace with your stomach and gut. *cue Buddhist gong*
INSTEAD, I decided to grow down and throw away adulthood when I went to 1Pot, not only once… but THRICE! Allow me to summarize all three visits for you:
1. I stumbled in here after me and my gf decided we were «pekkish» and were in the mood for small snacks. Five pounds of meat later we began the «YOU DID THIS TO ME!» blame-​game which was kindly interrupted by 1pot’s manager, who suggested we make room for their amazing mango tapioca pudding.
2. Two weeks later I joined the Unilocal Crew and decided to handle myself with poise and manners. Nope– not the case, I butchered everything that came and once again challenged the limits of how many angus beef and octopus I can consume. Oh all of that cuttlefish paste please!
3. XX amount days later I returned with my high school buddies in hopes of reviving our lost days of gastro-​debauchery. We tapped out in the first round. Granted I assumed 1pot would treat us like most AYCE joints and skimp out on certain orders by the second round. So we made our first round as heavy as it can be in meats and all the juicy tasty things that would bankrupt any foolish restaurant stand and we wanted it right MEOW. But 1Pot is not run by fools. Instead they brought out what began as a dreamland of yum-​yum and turned it into our slow, crawling, mouth-​agape-​food-​hanging-​on-​our-​chin-​distant-​look NIGHTMARE.
Also let me tell you a secret. Get their mango pudding and mango tapioca. It’s off menu but it’s the PERFECT dessert. So light and fresh.

The only reason this is getting 2 stars is because our previous visit there was actually enjoyable. However, our recent visit there has soured me enough not to come back.
Food: ⁴⁄₅ Stars
Service: 1 Star
Ambience: 2 Stars
If you plan on going there on a weekend, make reservations. This place gets packed!
As most Unilocalers have already described, 1 Pot is a Chinese hot pot restaurant where each seat has their own burners to heat your own hot pot. You are given an order sheet where you can choose your soup base (sichuan pepper, beef, chicken, etc.) as well as choose your meat, carb and vegetable ingredients. This is actually 1 Pots redeeming factor since they offer a decent variety of tasty ingredients as well as the sauce station where you can mix together a ton of different sauces together.
What turned me off completely from this place is the service. I am used to the typical Chinatown «snarky /​blunt» service we’ve all come to love. What really irked me was I saw more brain power from zombies in a Walking Dead episode than our servers that night.
For some unfathomable reason, I think they accidentally turned on an invisibility cloak on my gf and I’s table. They continuously gave the ingredients to the other tables surrounding us. We had to flag them down during the ENTIRE MEAL to bring us our food when they got turned away from the other tables. I knew it was going to be long night when our server had a clueless look on her face wandering around each table with our soup base. Maybe you should look for the table WITHOUT a hot pot yet? Like our table? Add in the unapologetic attitudes and it made for an unenjoyable dining experience.
We love the concept and really enjoyed the food. It’s unfortunate that our servers seemed to have just come from a Walking Dead casting call. I’ll assume they are amazing method actors and were still in character.

I love Phở, I love ramen and I love fondue! I had never been to a hot pot before, but I quickly learned that it is a beautiful, flavourful and OH SO SPICY (in my case — medium sichuan… damn, that’s spicy) smash-​up/​medly of all these things.
1. Pick your soup base. They have SO many to choose from. You can go with more traditional hot pot soups or go ramen style with miso or tonkotsu, or even give it a Thai twist with a green curry. After hearing from one of the guys at our table the mild sichuan soup he ordered was quite mild, I opted for the medium which on first sip immediately brought tears to my eyes, steam to my ears, and a runniness to my nose. If you like spicy — go for it! If not? Stay the heck away from this one! Several people were enjoying sipping on their soup at the end of the meal. I didn’t — that would have been like trying to drink straight fire.
2. Pick the stuff you want to cook in it! You order off of a sushi type tick card. I was hungry and I’ll eat anything so I didn’t even look at the card. From what showed up at our table, I can only assume that you can actually order everything — every single thing to cook in your soup. We had snails, whole shrimp, a lot of beef things, noodles, veggies, fish, pork things, fish paste things, wontons, cuttle fish, tripe and all sorts of mystery meats.
3. Go to the sauce buffet and just go to town. Take a bunch of different bowls or just take one bowl and load it with a bunch of different sauces! After putting that spicy sichuan in my mouth, I had no idea what I was eating. According to many people at the table, the satay sauce is unreal. Personally, I was in love with the sesame paste topped off with hoisin. It helped cool my mouth down.
Huge props to those little asians donut things that come with sweetened condensed milk for you to dip it in.
The whole experience was so fun. The service was so kind and friendly. The food is exciting and plentiful. But like every all-​you-​can-​eat place I’ve ever been to, I wind up wondering what could have been with set portions but at a higher quality. That’s what would give it that coveted 5^th star. No matter how good the food was, the quality still felt like an all-​you-​can eat place… which it is… so there’s that.
Huge thanks to Nyssa M. for organizing this UYE so I could try my first Hot Pot!

I love this place. i love the sauce table and we get individual pot. except meat is not fresh. and little expensive for that.

1Pot, 1Price for a great meal especially on a cold day. Price is $ 25.99/person — all you can eat. You tick off items off on a list — pick your soup base, pick your meat, seafood, vegetables, dumplings, carbs like noodles, rice, tofu, pork blood. Very good food. Great wait service. I love the «sauce buffet» like preserved bean curd sauce (foo-​yee), satay sauce, xo sauce, ground garlic, ground ginger, ground red chili, and the list goes on and on.
We opted for the beef broth, load of beef, lamb, prawns, tofu, lobster balls, shrimp balls, «tong-​oh» & «sue Choy» vegetable, dumplings, sticky rice, seasoned rice, clear vermicelli. At the end, the soup is so delicious to drink as all the wonderful essence of the meat, seafood and vege are all blended into the broth. For an added price of $ 6.95, we decided to get a jug of plum drink — helps cool you down with all the hot food.
There is a time limit of 2 hours and everything ordered must be eaten.
Love cooking from my own hot pot! Great concept!

This was a really good hotpot place! You get an Individual pot (although I find all of our soup base rather bland despite the promising sounding descriptions), lots of sauce ingredients and meat options. The service could be friendlier (but that always seems to be the case in a Chinese restaurant in North America) and they could pick up the orders faster, but overall the supply pace was good to make you fully satisfied within the 2 hour dining window. Price was a bit on the expensive side. Around home we pay $ 20 pp for unlimited hot pot but there is less variety. I suppose that is truly what you pay extra for. Well worth a stop if you are hungry and in the area.

Being a vegetarian, this is just the wrong venue. With astronomical prices and a limited selection of available vegetarian ingredients, I felt like I wasn’t getting value out of my order. For meat eaters the place seems great, and the all you can eat can be worth it if you’re hungry enough or there for a special event.
The restaurant itself is loud but pleasant to be in. Service was prompt and attentive.

When I first saw 1 Pot, I was thinking that it would be another hotpot restaurant like the old Treasures of China or Hot Point. Don’t get me wrong, I love the concept, but it hasn’t been done this well in a long time.
First of all, every seat has their own induction burner for your very own hotpot. Add to that the plethora of broths available for just about every taste that will keep you coming back again. From the simplicity of beef, to flavourful choices like cilantro and pidan, or the incredible Sichuan «mala», a bubbling magma of chili oil, dried chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorn that is wonderfully spicy and numbing good.
For one price, you get the whole run of the menu including meats, vegetables, seafood, tofus, fish pastes, dumplings and more.
The icing on the cake comes with the incredible sauce bar that includes 15 housemade sauces in addition to the fixings to create your own.
The service here is also good, as the servers are happy to help you make your dining experience a good one. Great work, 1 Pot!

This is the best hotpot restaurant I have been to in Calgary. I am not usually a big fan of having hotpot at a restaurant (I usually prefer eating it at home), but the experience of the meal here is quite fun. Each person gets to have their own pot!
In my opinion, the whole idea of having hotpot is to enjoy cooking your food with family and friends. Usually, a large pot of soup is shared with a group of people; everyone is provided with raw meats (seafood, beef, lamb. etc) and vegetables to which they are to cook via the hot pot of soup.
The unique idea of this restaurant (the only one in Calgary so far) is that each person gets their own pot that they can use to cook their own food. There are a variety of soup bases that you can choose from and as well, a variety of meats and vegetables. In addition to the meats and vegetables, there are also noodles and tofu. The ingredients that this restaurant provides appears to be fresh, in comparison to many hotpot places I have been to in Calgary.
What I liked about this restaurant is not only the idea of the one pot, but that the ingredients need to be ordered; hotpot restaurants are usually all you can eat (including this one) and so often the ingredients are left out in the open for hours. Additionally, you get to make your own dipping sauce!
The service at this restaurant is fairly quick and quite well-​mannered for a chinese restaurant. I would definitely recommend this place for hotpot, however it is a bit on the pricer side for hotpot ($ 35 per person, usually its between $ 20-​$ 25). Also, it is best to make a reservation… when we left there was a huge crowd of people waiting. My friend made a reservation for 6:00pm so we got seated when the restaurant opened.

One word: Cute!
An interesting Asian hot pot restaurant locate at center of Chinatown. It’s all you can eat menu only, and the word «cute» I use, because most traditional Asian hot pot I knew are one big pot of soup broth with a stove on the table; cook the raw meat or other food produce share with group of people. But this restaurant concept was thinking outside of the box: Someone invented INVIDUAL stove with a very small size pot in front of your table, you can choose your own variety flavour of the soup from healthy vegetarian to Szechwan spicy hot soup broth. Which also reduce cross-​contamination and you don’t need to share the soup broth with other people. The menu are huge selection to choose: raw meat, seafood (some are frozen), produce, noodles, hot food (wings, deep fried spring rolls etc…). There is create your own dipping sauce for increase your taste bud with your cooked food: from sweet tangy to extreme spicy chilli sauce, just locate in main entrance. Services was taken care by Asian wait staff nothing ordinary, but there is one female wait staff taking care of us acting very cutely as from her speech and greeting gesture (with a bow) make us feel differently as other Asian restaurant services attitude nor behavior. Definitely will be back again.
Tips:
Reservation: especially on weekends and/​or holiday. Or big groups in advance.
It all you can eat !
Order menu sheet: be caution what you order including the soup broth. Some menu item specific quantity, I ordered 1 dumpling for cooking it came in «one unit» of dumpling. And raw meat are cut into very thin slice maybe 1 order = 6 slice of meat per order.
There is lots of food recommend in the order sheet, but most memorable menu is a dessert (under hot food order sheet section): deep fried Asian bun with sweet condense milk (crispy outside, steamy soft bun inside, dipped with condense milk = heaven)