Bamboo Pavilion

I used to come here a lot and we decide to revisit it. They changed their name, but everything inside is the same. The inside is a little run down and not very clean. We had the all you can eat hot pot and discovered that the utensils were not clean, there was still chunks of food left behind. The food was not fresh at all. I ordered the shrimp and it was just mush. The shells won’t come off the flesh and when it did the after math was a sliver of mushy shrimp. Everything had very visible freezer burns on it. Not somewhere I would be eating again.

Great food at a great price. if you love spicy food and you are in the area this is your place to go! Friendly servers and food comes pretty quickly.

Definitely not my cup of tea. First of all, this restaurant is no longer called Bamboo Pavilion… they changed it to «Spicy Bampa Chinese Restaurant.» This can be super confusing to people who tries to come here. Also the menu was super messy — they crossed out old prices with a pen and just wrote in the new prices!
I came here for a family dinner around 8:00 PM on a Monday and it was fairly empty. This restaurant is supposed to serve authentic sichuan cuisine — I know nothing about sichuan cuisine but this place did not taste good. We ordered the Double Cooked Pork, Hand Tofu Fingers & Ribs in the Pot and Straw Mushrooms with Potato Strips.
Double Cooked Pork — this is supposed to be their signature dish. It was OK — a bit dry for me and not too much pork. It is a bit spicy but for someone like me who cannot eat spicy — this was fairly okay.
Hand Tofu Fingers & Ribs in the Pot — big NO NO! This was SUPER SPICY and way too much water used in the pot!!! I can barely pick out any ribs — I legit took two bites and that was the end of that dish.
Straw Mushrooms with Potato Strips — one of their vegetarian dish. This was good but the mushrooms are a bit dry for me.
The whole bill for all the above came out to $ 47 including tips — not bad but I don’t think I’ll be returning.
FYI — service was good though!

I love this gem of a restaurant! My friend and I always come here for the spicy Sichuan hot pot at least once a month (even in the summer. That’s how much we love it lol). They have the best Sichuan broth I have ever tasted. It’s also $ 20 for all you can eat (some items are not part of the AYCE). They also have regular Sichuan style food as well if you’re not in the mood for hot pot. The Sichuan wontons are a favorite of mine and highly recommended. Also love their intestine with chili oil dish. This place never disappoints me.

The hot pot is definitely NOT a HOT pot if the gas stove is not powerful. It doesn’t matter, but the disappointing thing is they don’t have a replace, they just keep saying this is the last one, no more can be used. Me and my gf stared at the QUIET soup in the pot, hard to expect it’s boiling. This is making us feeling embarrassed because all other people enjoy their hotpot…
Sorry I am feeling bad this time.

My go to spot for my hotpot cravings. I come here at least once a week. They never fail to disappoint and the soup bases are amazing. I always get the half and half soup base. Meat is super fresh. The only downside is that you have to pay extra for stuff like enoki mushrooms, fish tofu, and whatnot. They also don’t have peanut sauce and the traditional sauces hotpot places have, but I don’t mind that. I highly recommend this place. Some days it might be crowded but it’s worth the wait.

This place quality went downhill, do not order seafood, I can tell the crap and shrimp taste stale, they give us a bad stove, the soup base takes forever to boil, we have been asking for a new gas can or a new stove, they keep ignoring our request. I will not come back.

I’ve always walked pass this place, and it always seemed busy. The place my friend and I normally go to for hotpot was closed so we decided to try this place out; seeing that it wasn’t busy tonight. I gave it one star for the service. Most of the food came out frozen such as the clams, squid, intestines and a few other things. The house special beef was definitely not meant for hotpot. It was just beef that most restaurants use for beef and broccoli. The amount of meat given was very little. The corn was horrible. Overall My friend and I wouldn’t be coming back. We rather make the trip to 8^th ave, if our normal hotpot place doesn’t open up again.

I only come here for two things — all you can eat szechuan hotpot and spicy beef tendon!
The hotpot soup base is soooooo good (always got the half spicy, half non-​spicy pot) and the fish slices are so fresh. Definitely go for the home-​style marinated beef, though I’m also a fan of the sliced beef too. My first bite of hotpot each time is always the sliced beef cooked for 5 – 8 secs in the szechuan soup base, — heaven! Everything you order comes out quick and in a large pan that you can immediately dump everything into the boiling soup base! So unfortunate that they there are extra costs to the beef tendon balls, shrimp balls, and fried fish balls — whhhyyy???
Nevertheless, great service as they always kept refilling your soup pot and iced water, and remembered all my orders!

I remember havin hot pot here yrs ago when they were known as Bamboo Pavilion. But i guess they didnt capture my stomach then.
However, i’ve been back recently (well, more so my mom). My mom always gets the «phu tai fie peen» (intestines w red hot oil sauce) from here and they make it better than our other Sichuan spot in bay ridge.
Jus the other day i ordered dan dan noodles, double cooked pork and spicy wontons. They were all very good. Dan dan noodle is slightly more watered down then the other sichuan place i get it from but still has that numbing spice which is important.
I am excited to try their hotpot since it smells so good when i went into the restaurant to order my food! Will be back!

Seriously, not authentic Szechuan food.
Ordered a dry pot shrimp. Found celery, potato wedge, onion in dish, its more like their hire their chef from Applebee, than authentic.
Worst part is the shrimp was iffy, taste funny even with heavy spicy. Then, the best friend of iffy, diarrhea came.
Never go again.

Came here on a cold winters day with a large group of friends for hot pot. Super affordable and standard chinese service as is you get what you get. The hot pot deal is the way to go. Great selections of fresh seafood, greens, and tofu. The hot pot broth was great. We went with a spicey side and non spicey side. You can see the chili’s floating in the spicey side that had a nice kick. Great for groups as the back section which is really outdoors is covered in a outdoor erected tarp but still came off very warm in that cold night. You will find smokers back here though as it seems they are trying to skirt the non smoking rule as it is half inside half outside.

What can I say about this place? Sometimes I love it sometimes it’s just dissapointing. I recently ordered take out which was a huge disappointment! I asked the counter person about their «FRIED» fish she recommended me something on the menu which clearly stated «FRIED fish with spicy black bean sauce.» I was sooooo excite to try the fish, but when I got home it wasn’t what I expected! I got STEAM fish! Such a disappointment!!! There’s a huge difference between «STEAM» and «FRIED»

The worst service ever! The girls working there has an Attitude problem. I ordered 红油螺片I got 80%cucumber for 11 dollars. It took 20 mins to get the first dish. I live right next door to this place but never want to go eat there ever again!

I’ve had their hot pot for the first time ever which I tried it and I loved their hot pot buffet it is very delicious. I can’t wait to go again

This is the Spicy Bampa, no longer Bamboo Pavilion… They have nearly a dozen tables crammed together on the inside, an AC system that doesn’t cool the back area at all, and an outdoor back area for the nicer months. The paint is old and discolored, the ground scuffed by countless customers’ feet, and a single unisex bathroom in the back.
There’s another location further north of here on Ft Hamilton Parkway, I think, that only does hot pot. Here you can do both hot pot or spicy Sichuan dishes.
We ordered separate dishes to try the spiciness — and they were measured at the table by the fish cooked in chili oil as just okay (a little thick on the cornstarch, very strange — without the massive layer of oil you normally see — could be the cornstarch emulsified within the oil, on second thought). The snow pea leaves were cooked well, but salty, and the dried bean curd with pork dish was a deliciously oily dish which could have done with fresher celery. The spiced dried beef slices were good, but drenched in the spicy oil for those who aren’t afraid of it. A last dish of fried chicken in spicy peppers had a lot of peppers, and not a lot of chicken (much of it with bones that were chopped and fragmented, making them hard to eat).
Overall, I’ve had better, but people did seem to enjoy the hot pot. We’ll have to try that the next time we’re in the area either her or at their other location.
One good note — they do accept Visa/​Mastercard/​Discover credit cards, which is rare. Service was quick with the tea and water, and they did get an «A» for cleanliness (only one of seven cups had to be replaced). And they did make a number of dishes without garlic for our one eater that couldn’t have any at all… which was a nice change.

My first experience with Sichuan food. I am a big fan of Chinese food but get a little bored of the typical American Chinese dishes I usually have. I have always been a bit intimidated by this place but what the hell my Unilocaling has made me a fearless foodie so in to this authentic place went my lil white butt.
I ordered the Kings Chicken with Dry Peppers because if Im jumping in the Sichuan pool I’m going all in. Now thanks to my fellow Unilocalers I knew that you have to order white rice separate for like 1.25 which is a bit annoying I admit. They brought me out a bowl of Hot and Sour soup first which I guess came with it since I didnt order it. I am a Hot and Sour fan and can say this was the hottest I have ever had. It was also one of the best, loaded with tofu and green onions and lil Sichuan Peppercorns. This baby packed a heat that hung around awhile and the water glass of hot tea (I love that by the way) was not cutting it! I quickly asked for ice water as I took off my Mets cap to wipe off my brow.
The Chicken was almost mild in comparison as my taste buds had adjusted. It was fried very crispy and sat in a dish of dried chilis, whole slices of garlic and a slick red oil. Very very tasty if a teeny bit salty. The rice helped to tame the heat a bit.
I look forward to returning and trying something else. Anyone want to suggest what a true Sichuan dish would be?

This place make their own spice in spicy food. When you order spicy on the menu, you will get very spicy food. Other then their spicy food, I love the Beef noodle soup.
Also, this is one of the best Hot Pot place in NYC. Definitely will come back for more food here.

I’m not a big fan of hot pot, but my family is and so we came on a weekend. I’ve been to Bamboo Pavilion before and it still has yet to really WOW me. We always do the hot pot buffet. I hate how Bamboo Pavilion has to use the gas burners they bring to the table. I much prefer the ones that are built in already. We had a really difficult time waving the waitresses down when we wanted to order more. AND, they charge you extra if you want things like fish balls or shrimp. Other hot pot buffets have all that stuff included.
I definitely wouldn’t choose Bamboo Pavilion as my go-​to for hot pot. I’d much rather go to Hottest 86^th, or Kuho Shabu Shabu.

Decent food if you know what to order, but it’s not a cheap lunch. Sichuan also means super spicy, so watch our or your ass is gonna get it later on.
This place used to be called Spicy Bampa (their takeout menus still say this).