Emperor Hotpot

No, no, no and no.
This hot pot location replaced the location for rolling pot, and the decoration made it pretty high end. Coming on a weekday, dinner prices were almost $ 26 plus tax and tips, talk about expensive for hot pot. Nevertheless, decided to give it a try.
Most drinks were not included in this AYCE and neither were the pots. We were told that we needed to pay $ 2.50 for a pot. Definitely not the best type of advertising cause although each person does get their own «pot», we didn’t know it was extra.
Their quality of food was average in my opinion. The beef slices were decent, and came in three slices at a time… I know they don’t want to waste food, but one order equals three pieces of meat IS a little unexpected cause other places don’t provide only three slices.
There was also what I believed to be a minimal selection of seafood for this price. We got the mussels and the shrimp, the mussels were fairly small in my opinion.

2.5÷5, +.5 for service
Emperor Hotpot replaced what I believe was Rolling Pot, which closed earlier this year. The whole restaurant has been redecorated and it looks like a high end hot pot place, especially with the name given!
There is a decent variety in terms of food available, however in terms of the soup bases most of them require extra cost… which I was pretty disappointed about. I ended up going with a tomato soup base, which I believe was a $ 3 extra charge (some were up to $ 5 extra charge!). The pots are individual for each person, which personally I prefer over shared pots.
Most of the food I ate were quite good in quality, such as sliced beef, sliced lamb, octopus, shrimp, oysters, beef tripe, etc. We also ordered wagyu beef, which was an extra charge for each slice you order (minimum of 4 I believe). It tasted okay, but personally I didn’t think it was with the high premium charge that I experienced.
Service was quick and efficient, and we had food coming in not even a minute after we ordered since everything is done electronically.
The AYCE prices for this place are a lot higher than other hot pot places like Kim Tao or HiPot (and this doesn’t include the premium charges for some soup bases and the wagyu beef), but I personally only found the food quality to be slightly better. Therefore I will have to say that this place isn’t worth it.