Kings Noodle & Hot Pot

They have change their menu recently, no more hot pot in summer, but their authentic northern China food is excellence. Lots of space, and quiet. I like her sweet Tofu and Chinese dounuts. yummy

Only communal hot pot place I know of in Edmonton. Sure it doesn’t have the ambiance of the more upscale places. But there are lots of fresh options and they have really quick service.
I am of the opinion that hot pot should be a shared experience, and individual hot pots negates the social aspect of the experience. Some of my fondest hot pot memories involve my sister and me competing for the tastiest bits.

Located in a somewhat sketchy area of «Chinatown», Kings Noddle & Hot Pot is open for dinner. When it comes to eating hot pot, I would recommend going hungry because, it’s like a buffet but you cook all your food in a pot.
Corporate hot pot with friends is a pretty good idea especially when your celebrating a birthday.
I say this because every time I’m at Kings Noodle & Hot Pot, we’re celebrating a birthday on a Friday evening.
Kings has a lot of tables and it’s good for families, friends and large groups of people. You don’t have to worry about over staying no matter how busy this place gets.
Above the sauce table there was a funny message: All you can eat Hot Pot for $ 23.99 and if you’re under 3 feet, it’s free! (Ah too bad… I’m not short enough, even for an Asian) We decided on a basic broth and the spicy broth as our soup base.
Everything that you request on the menu is brought out correctly and quickly. The waitresses here are diligent in filling up your water, clearing your plates and bringing out your food in a friendly manner. They have a good selection of cooked items and hot dishes. So they don’t strictly just have «hot pot» items that you need to cook yourself.
It’s pretty basic, you have a selection of sauces that you can use to dip your cooked food. There’s a large selections of vegetables, meats and seafood to choose from. It depends on the day, sometimes it’s fresh and it taste really good and other times, it’s average and you don’t like how the meat was marinated.
Try to corresponding with one another on how much food to order, because if you don’t end up finishing the food, you will have to pay for it.
I would have to say that this hot pot restaurant has the best service around.

Spicy broth was so good! Ingredients fresh! Staff very friendly! ¹⁰⁄₁₀ would recommend. Would be great to come with big family or bunch of friends!

Kings Noodle and Hot Pot is a great steamboat restaurant. Located on the periphery of Chinatown, it has a ton of tables, a great selection of meats and vegetables, and is always very clean. The premise for this restaurant works very similar to an all-​you-​can-​eat buffet — it’s roughly $ 20 a head, which includes almost all of the food (several are a few dollars extra). The only caveat, to avoid people ordering way too much, is that you have to pay for food that you don’t eat. The best way to avoid over-​ordering is to try out with one or two plates of each thing you want to try, and then order more on demand. You’ll find the service efficient and hospitable, and will likely eat much more than you ever thought possible.
The selection at Kings is much like any other hot pot place, with slices of beef, chicken, and lamb, prawns, fish balls, squid, wontons, noodles, crab, and all kinds of veggies (potatoes, sweet potatoes, lettuce, seaweed, etc.). Everything is always consistently delicious and their selection of sauces, herbs, and spices is as much as you could want.
Kings is a delicious and extremely reasonably-​priced restaurant, with a friendly atmosphere that doesn’t frown upon lengthy, prolonged dining experiences. You can take your time at Kings, not having to worry about getting out of the way for new customers, and without servers constantly checking up on you to ‘see how you’re doing.’ When your plates are empty, the servers will show up — until then, you’re free to take your time, enjoy the exotic tastes, and take some pleasure in ‘cooking’ your own meal.
I’d definitely recommend going hungry. You’ve got a lot of food ahead of you.

Oooo hot pot, you sly devil, you have been missing from my life for far too long. Went out on a Friday evening with the boys and Kings Noodle & Hot Pot definitely delivered. My one buddy goes here all the time so were ready to eat a ton. As everyone else has said, it’s $ 23 for all you can (unless your under 3 feet = you get to eat for freeeeee). The place had a couple of other patrons, maybe 4 other tables which we thought was pretty empty for a Friday night. Guess no one likes hot pot in the summer? More food for us than.
Anyways, for the broth, we choose the two free ones (chicken and satay). They had a couple of other options but you have to pay $ 5 extra. We loaded up and tried most of the menu. Lots of meat (beef, lamb, chicken, cuttlefish was great, salmon, shrimp/​beef balls), vegetables (wintermelon, tofu, daikon, spinach, water crest) fried food (yam fries — WHAT, so random but pretty decent, green onion cakes — always a good choice, deep fried spring rolls) and some other things (quail eggs, rice with pork sausage).
All in all, pretty decent selection. Definitely makes me want to have more hot pot! Fast service, they bring everything out all at once. Nice way to end your meal with choice of dessert — either tapioca bowl or mango ice cream (obviously latter is the way to go).

Plenty of variety for the hotpot, but it does not justify $ 24 per person, especially considering I have had a much larger selection and with desserts other than ice cream for much less at Asian Grill which I understand has long closed down. There is no option for a hot plate for grilling meat. I think meat is better grilled whereas seafood is better suited to hotpot (or steamboat, as I call it). It’s okay once in a while when you want a variety of food in small quantities that you wouldn’t otherwise eat or bother buying, as was the case with me eating pork liver and kidney, a leaf of spinach, winter melon and whatever little veggies came my way. The thousand year old egg never arrived (I understand from a past story I was told, in respect of what was called hundred year old egg that I had previously eaten in Singapore, that the egg is soaked in horse urine for a hundred days which apparently gives it the black colour) and I didn’t bother asking for it as the server rarely came by.

0 for the food
1 star for the service.
I came here first time because Asian express is full. Man what a mistake. The Szechuan soup base is not authentic at all, the meat and veggie choices are very limited and omg they don’t have garlic and sesame oil as dipping sauce! What kind of chinese hot pot places does not have garlic and sesame oil? I asked them for garlic and they brought me a small plate of those fried garlic comes in a bottle. You as Chinese don’t know what smashed garlic is? Seriously? And you are in hot pot business but have no idea the authentic Szechuan dipping sauce is garlic and sesame oil? Then why even bother putting it on the menu! Now I understand why one of my Canadian friend said he doesn’t like hot pot after coming here. I gotta take him to the real deal Asian express instead. Never again! They should pay me to eat here!

This food is amazing! I have never gone to a more relaxed and casual dinner. My husband and I love this place! The service is really great, so friendly!
It’s all you can eat for $ 22.99 with the exception of certain seasonal ingredients.
They also have spring rolls and green onion cake included in the all you can eat!
I love this restaurant and I plan to continue coming here for as long as it’s standing.

BEST HOT POT in Edmonton. Their menu evolves around the year due to seasonal ingredient availability. I’ve visited this venue twice so far (4 people first time and 7 people second time). Both visits were excellent! I think there’s a summer promotion or something going on. The second time, our bill had 20% off. It is $ 23 per person. For our second visit, we went all out and after the 20% discount, it came down to $ 22/​person.
The service is on the ball and very prompt. There is also a side table of amazing sauces for you to select from. I prefer a mix of the cilantro, dumpling sauce, and ginger sauce. The hot pot ingredients are ordered on a sheet of paper and delivered on a small cart to each table. Personally, I prefer this method over the mess of the cafeteria style. I really recommend that you visit here with a loved one or a group.
Update: downgrading 5 to 3. It was late April that my mother visited Edmonton when I graduated from UofA. I always had a nice time here so I brought my mom for dinner. The ingredients were not fresh. Service was great but it was a really slow day and it seemed like the kitchen was offloading some old supplies from the back of their freezer based on the grub we were receiving. My mom wasn’t impressed.

I am relatively new to hot pot, but I have really become a fan of the whole process. My friend took me to King’s for dinner one evening and I was doubtful, but the experience was really fun and the food was great.
Kings is located on 101^st street, east of the hospital and north of Sapporo Sushi. The restaurant is nothing fancy, but they have a set focus and they do a nice job of it. It’s an «all you can eat» kind of deal and for $ 22, they don’t put any limits on what you order. All of the staff were very friendly and accomodating, and I found that the service was very fast — they wheel all your food out on a little cart and allow you to make your own sauces at a «sauce station» — things like hoisin, chili sauce, soy sauce, fish sauce, garlic, etc, were readily available.
For a hot pot novice, hot pot is sort of like what they do at The Melting Pot — it’s a big pot of broth on the table, that you cook your food in. They offer a few different kinds of broth, but we always go for the complimentary (aka free) kinds and pick both (they split the pot in two, so there are two different sides to cook on!). You can order almost anything to cook — tons of veggies, lots of meats (beef, marinated beef, lamb, veal, chicken, marinated chicken, pork, etc) and lots of seafoods (shrimp, mussels, oysters, scallops, whitefish, etc), different types of noodles, wontons, dumplings, etc. They also offer a substantial «hot» menu, with things like spring rolls, green onion cakes, dumplings, chicken wings, rice with chinese sausage, etc etc.
As I said, the atmosphere is very no-​frills. I’ve only been at dinnertime and there’s usually three or four tables in there at least. At the risk of sounding racist — I think I’ve been three or four times and the only caucasian people in the restaurant were at my table. Not that this is a bad thing, but I believe this is a good indicator of how ‘authentic’ the experience is. If you are a hotpot virgin, don’t let that intimidate you from trying out this unique experience. It’s delicious, quite cost effective if you are hungry, and definitely a lot of fun.

Hot pot only ! A little bit of a difference style then I’m used to. For those of you who have been to all you can eat sushi, it’s done the same way. All you can eat for $ 22.99. You have a form at the table, fill out what you want and they bring it to you on a cart. Not the biggest selection but still incredibly tasty ! The only thing I can complain about is the texture of the marinated pork. No matter how long we cooked it for the texture remained raw. Really great service and there is free ice cream at the end ! How can you say no !
Also, we knew it was gonna be good whe my boyfriend was the only white person (guai lo) in there ! ;)