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  • Hey, it's Mike Chen

  • Awhile ago I did a video where I went and tried out and reviewed a lot of all you can eat hot pot restaurants in San Francisco

  • And after that video came out a lot of you guys messaged me asking me to do the same thing for

  • New York City, so I thought go around New York City, and eat at a lot of all-you-can-eat hot pot buffets

  • Let's do it

  • So we're going to go to a lot of the all-you-can-eat hot pot places in the city

  • and we're going to go try them out and like before we're going to review them based on five things: meat quality,

  • quantity of ingredients, the sauce bar, the broth and the service and we'll rank each of these five

  • criterias from one to five, five of course being the best, and because there are so many all-you-can-eat

  • hot pot places in the city, I don't think one video is going to cover it

  • So we're going to make it a series. All right guys. Let's go hot potting.

  • Our first stop is 99 Favors out here in Flushing.

  • I'm starving. I had a reservation at 8:00. It's 8:16, and there's still a bunch of people ahead of me

  • I'm about to munch on this bamboo. I mean pandas do it right?

  • This is actually bigger upstairs than it is downstairs

  • Thank you. Wow, look at how big that table is

  • Here, the hot pot is $22.99 you get a dollar off if you are a VIP

  • I don't know what it takes to be a VIP, but a dollar seems a little low

  • If you want to get Korean barbecue it's $25.99 you want to get them together is $30.99

  • And here you can either get a big family-style pot and have three flavors three broth

  • or you can get a big pot with two broth or you can get your own mini little pot

  • Here you don't mark anything on a slip of paper you just

  • Tell your server what you want and she'll put it into the iPad

  • Now that I pretty much ordered everything on the menu let's check out the sauce situation

  • This sauce bar it's actually really complete

  • It has all my favorites: the chive sauce, sesame sauce, Chinese barbecue sauce and hot oil

  • Sauce number one

  • and one really simple

  • three part sesame one part chive sauce

  • It's soup base testing time and I'm going to start off with the tomato

  • It tastes like ketchup. I was really anticipating that because in San Francisco

  • I had a two middle soup base that tasted really good

  • But this one really just kind of tastes like ketchup

  • This looks amazing

  • This is the pork bone broth

  • so I'm going to take a little bit of meat with my broth

  • The pork bone broth has a lot of porky and herby flavor to it

  • but it is kind of bland

  • Herbal Broth. This is actually really good

  • This is my favorite broth so far

  • It's very herbal-ly there's definitely some Chinese medicine in here. I fare it's really good. Finally the spicy broth

  • It's really spicy. Wow this broth as you can see has a lot of stuff in there, and it does taste pretty good

  • This is Mike my server here. He's dissecting the shrimp

  • You must have got an A in science class; all my shrimp has been beheaded and he's deveining the shrimp right now

  • That's some great tableside service. I of course opted for both the hot pot and barbecue

  • I can never resist that and this is my favorite fatty beef brisket

  • And they mixed in some kind of spicy sauce with it as well. Usually I like these with a little bit of salt and vinegar

  • and sesame oil

  • That's heavenly

  • the brisket's nice ratio of lean and fatty meat

  • It's not sliced as thin as I would typically like but the quality of this meat is undeniable

  • beautiful char on this brisket and the fat just melts. On this side

  • this is duck and

  • whenever I see duck on a BBQ you gotta get it. Duck is marvelous barbecue and look at all that beautiful duck fat

  • Mmm. I love barbecue duck and my conch is ready. I'm really excited. I love conch so much

  • I love conch because of its crunch. Okay, that's stupid. I'm sorry I'm sorry.

  • It's so good; not too much seasoning on that. Short Ribs

  • It's not the most tender short rib you'll ever have, but hey, it's an all-you-can-eat buffet; it's flavorful enough

  • Alright guys I feel really bad right now because during this meal time I've been neglecting

  • Someone and I feel really bad because well, I love that individual and for it to feel neglected by me I feel horrible

  • I need to make up to it. So let's pay the hot pot some attention like I said really delicious broth

  • Let's go ahead and add some lamb and add some beef. About ten seconds in and it's done. Let's try the meat

  • You are able to tell that it's all you can eat hot pot buffet meat

  • I mean, it's not the most tender beef or lamb

  • But the meat is sliced really thin and its able to soak up a lot of the soup

  • And that's soup really adds a lot of heat to the meat. My favorite thing to do is go tell the fried dough

  • -- that soak up some delicious soup

  • That's a beautiful bite. This is the cow tongue. A lot of people might not like this.

  • But I love it. It's really lean, really delicious meat. Dip that in my sesame oil and salt

  • Guys for the first time in a hot pot buffet

  • I'm feeling a little bit overwhelmed because look at this I have a stack of BBQ meat here

  • I have the plate of barbecue meat I'm working on here. I have my hot pot meat here

  • I have more barbecue meat here, and I got these delicious sea food items sitting on the grill

  • I really don't even know what to do with myself right now. I don't know what they eat. I'm feeling a little flustered

  • I'm going to take a deep breath

  • Let's start eating

  • I have so much meat

  • I feel like if I don't need these vegetables something bad's gonna happen. A couple of dessert soups and this one looks like uh

  • a little bit of icy rice soup with peanuts and some sort of red jelly

  • That's a perfect little

  • post hot pot desert drink thingy. What I thought was red jelly is actually watermelon

  • and this thing is so

  • refreshing. And my tongue was kind of burning because of all the spice and heat and this thing just perfectly cooled everything down

  • This looks like milk tea with some grass jelly in here

  • And it tastes like milk tea with some grass jelly. Both desserts really refreshing especially after spicy, hot pot. Oh, I just had a thought

  • guys

  • When you come here, you don't need to order any drinks, you don't. Ask for a glass of water

  • Don't ask for an empty cup because that's a little suspicious and fill it up with a milk tea and jelly

  • This is a perfect drink with your hot pot. Now I feel kind of stupid. Alright

  • Let's talk about this place. 99 Favors for those of you

  • who don't know is probably the most recognizable name in all-you-can-eat hot pot in New York City

  • I believe they have four locations already

  • I think two in Manhattan, one of Brooklyn and one in Queens

  • And it's funny the reason they called this

  • 96 Flavors as you saw on the front that's because every time they register a company

  • They have to call it something different

  • So there's just kind of counting down from 99 and if ever if you sound to one favor

  • They would have already dominated the world. Let's talk about the sauce bar. They have all the sauces

  • I really love, so solid 4.5. When it comes to variety although the ingredients were presented in a beautiful looking menu with pictures

  • They don't offer as many items as you would think for example no potatoes,

  • no egg,

  • they only have one type of a lamb, one type of beef and really no dumplings at all. So for variety I'm going to give it a 3.

  • Of all the broth options they offered I tried most of them the spicy and the herbal were pretty good, the other ones were either really

  • Bland or it tasted like ketchup. For broth I give them a 3.5

  • I'm also going to get them a 3.5 for meat quality meat

  • The meat was sliced really thin if you cook it really quickly and take it out

  • It's going to taste pretty good, but you can definitely tell it's all-you-can-eat

  • hot pot meat and it's a little bit tough. Finally, service and I think service is where the chain really shines

  • I mean the guy dissected a shrimp next to me. Everybody was uber attentive

  • I asked a lot of questions, and they answered it very patiently even though they were super busy

  • We did have to wait for about a half an hour even though we had a reservation so for that

  • I give them a 4.5

  • So that will give them at least according to me

  • 19 points and divided by 5 gives them an average of 3.8 and guys I do feel after eating at the Brooklyn, the

  • Manhattan and now the flushing locations. This is a really solid place for hot pot

  • or Korean barbecue or a combo of Korean barbecue and hot pot. Alright guys, onto location number two

  • This is probably one of the more unique all you can eat hot pot restaurant in New York and probably the most economical because

  • Everything you see behind me all this

  • Everything here and all this is included in the buffet for about 12 bucks for lunch, and I think 16 dollars for dinner

  • This is an especially good value if you're a vegetarian because just look at all the stuff behind me we got mushrooms

  • wood ear, more mushrooms, yucky stuff (broccoli). Something else I really like about this buffet

  • They have some of the most unique noodles. I've ever seen my life

  • I mean look at this stuff: fresh pumpkin noodles, spinach noodles, green tea noodles, but this layout here is not just all vegetarians

  • They do have an assortment of fish balls and fish cakes

  • But if you are a meataterian like me you're going to want some beef and lamb

  • And you can order them by the plate for about 4 to 6 dollars each

  • So I got some fatty beef,

  • Some non fatty beef, some prime beef, some rib eye beef and of course some lamb. For soup bases

  • They have dashi, some pork bones, vegetarian or spicy dashi and spicy pork bone

  • I wanted to try the pork bone, but of course I wanted it to burn a little bit

  • So I got the spicy pork bone, and I got the regular dashi - just to try that soup base out

  • This is a Dashi broth something very traditional for Shabu Shabu

  • There's not a lot of flavor in this broth pretty much tastes like boiling water with a little bit of Dashi

  • And this is the spicy pork bone. That's actually pretty good the broth is very pork

  • It doesn't taste very Chinese herby because there really isn't a lot of Chinese herbs in here

  • It's kind of nice porky flavor the sauce bar is something that you typically will not be at all-you-can-eat

  • hot pot place. There are a ton of different sauces here including pineapple,

  • sesame sauce, that sounds interesting, spicy mustard sauce and wasabi

  • They do have a already mixed spring special sauce that I'm going to try. This is their house sauce. Add some garlic.

  • Some wasabi. I don't know what I'm doing here, and let's just try this pineapple sesame sauce. Little garnish.

  • Something I never thought I would ever say on a hot pot buffet; I think there's too much meat on my table

  • I'm gonna go get some vegetables

  • By the way this all counts as veggies. I mean the pork dumplings got some leek in there, and the spinach noodles got spinach

  • Jackpot this is definitely the most expensive item on the dinner menu

  • You don't just eat for taste; you eat for value

  • The meat looks like it's really good quality: thinly sliced,

  • nice marbling. Look how pretty that it is. Gonna try the spicy pork bone broth

  • That's done. That was the non fatty beef and it was pretty lean but at the same time still pretty tender

  • And I feel like enough of the soup base got it soaked in there

  • So that meat tasted pretty good without any sauce.

  • Now let's try the most expensive cut: the ribeye. That cooked in about five seconds. Dip that in a little of the original house sauce

  • That is really good quality meat and the sauce is good

  • It's not as heavy as a typical Mike Chen hot pot sauce; more light more citrusy. I think that goes pretty well with meat.

  • Now this is my sauce -- put some wasabi in there

  • How come I never put wasabi

  • In my hot sauce before?

  • That's brilliant because it was mixed with sesame sauce the wasabi didn't really burn

  • It was like more of a subtle wasabi flavor and that was delicious. Now I'm going to show you guys why, in hot pot,

  • I'm considered a dumper and because I am here by myself

  • I could stop as much as I want. Fatty beef with a dashi broth

  • You can't really taste much of the broth but what that does to it, is that it highlights the natural flavor of the ingredient

  • So if you like something more subtle, something that doesn't mask the flavor of the meats and vegetables

  • Basically the opposite of what I like to eat, this would be your broth

  • But my personal opinion is still that this broth is pretty bland. I love oyster mushrooms. This is where I make my money back

  • After about the fifth bite, the wasabi in the sauce is starting to burn and I'm telling you guys

  • That's a good burn. Pork dumpling is ready

  • I like it when I bite into a dumpling and I can chew the meat and the vegetables inside the dumpling

  • But I feel like this dumpling just kind of blended together with the skin

  • This is what I'm really excited about the spinach noodles

  • This counts as a serving of vegetables right?

  • Ooh, the noodles are good. Here are the green tea noodles it kind of lost a lot of its green luster after being boiled

  • I just want to try some on its own

  • It's pretty good. Just a little bit of matcha flavor. And the ramen

  • I'm going to top that off with a little beef. Come to Papa

  • I feel like the noodles, that's really a highlight for this place

  • I mean also it obviously a strategy to fill you up more

  • But the noodles are really fresh and delicious and if you come here during lunch during the weekdays there's only 12 bucks

  • So that's like a bowl ramen. This is a big chicken dumpling.

  • Now that's a good dumpling. I can taste the chicken and veggie filling. The filling's a good size, really good dumpling. Alright mom,

  • if you're watching I am trying to make this a balanced meal by eating my greens

  • I do have like five plates of beef on the table. But one leaf of spinach cancels out one slice of beef right? I mean

  • that math sounds good to me, and I should know; I'm Asian. I'm good at math especially food math

  • I'll give this place props; their vegetables are really fresh. Okay I went a little crazy with the sauce

  • This is pineapple sesame sauce with some chive purée, some spicy mustard and of course wasabi. I am very unsure about this

  • Okay, maybe don't try that and I got some soft-serve ice cream

  • Which is always welcome at the end of a hot pot. Of course this place being somewhat of a mix between all-you-can-eat

  • Chinese hot pot and shapu shapu

  • It's going to be hard to rate this place like I typically do for example a meat quality

  • I mean you got to pay for the meat

  • So the meat quality is pretty good

  • But that doesn't really come with the buffet. Also the service; when you're here you don't really rely on the server's as your lifeline

  • Between your unlimited needs so that's also hard to say well

  • Let's talk about what we know first of all soup base in my honest opinion

  • If I was to put this place's broth in either category, it's going to fall short either way

  • I feel like the dashi is not nearly as flavorful as some of the shabu shabu places I went to in California

  • When it comes to the pork bone broth it was flavorful

  • But didn't quite add too much to my meat and vegetable. So for broth. I give this place a 2.5 when it comes to variety

  • Especially the non meat kind, this place like I mentioned before, is a vegetarian's paradise; tons of vegetables

  • tons of noodles, all really fresh. For that, I'm going to give this place a 4. Now let's talk about the sauce bar

  • It's really made to satisfy both worlds of Chinese hot pot and shabu shabu and there's a lot of very innovative

  • sauces and spices on that bar that I typically never seen before and it was really fun to try them all out

  • so for the sauce bar I give this place a

  • 4.5 and although, I didn't rely on anybody to get my food the service here is really good so for that

  • I'm gonna get them a 4. Like I mentioned before the meat isn't included in the buffet

  • So we're going to leave that out. So just based on those 4 factors

  • I would give them a total of 15 points divided by 4 that's

  • 3.75 and this is why I normally only go to all you can eat hot pot places because here although my meal wasn't expensive

  • 16 dollars I did order 5 plates of meat and those 5 plates of meat is gonna cost me 25 dollars

  • So you added up together my bills probably gonna be around

  • $40 much more expensive than if I went to an all-you-can-eat buffet where everything was included. If you are a

  • vegetarian or you are a vegan and you love, hotpot. You cannot beat this deal, especially during lunch on the weekdays

  • All right guys on to location number three

  • Little Lamb is probably the most well-known Chinese hot pot place in America. The Little Land places here in New York

  • have what they call a summer special

  • I think starting in April you have all-you-can-eat on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the general perception of Little Lamb

  • hot pot is that their quality is really good both in terms of soup bases and ingredients, now

  • they don't have a lot of selections when you're trying to choose soup. They only have two choices: one is their original

  • famous famous milky bone broth and the other is their milky bone broth that is spicy and of course when they offer all-you-can-eat

  • It's not going to be everything on their typical menu; they do have a selection here, that is included in the buffet which is

  • $22.95 and then a little premium section here for 4 dollars extra for each person at the table

  • So of course I gotta add the premium. Like I mentioned before, although

  • there's not a huge selection of hotpot broth in this place, the broth that they do have is really really famous.

  • They sell this actually at supermarkets and their signature is this very herbally Chinese medicine-y

  • milky bone marrow broth. My mouth is already watering because I know I know this is good.

  • I know this is good and just look at all these herbs and ingredients they have in here: ginger,

  • (Days Juju?) I could drink that broth on its own. It's really herby, nice and thick

  • And creamy -- really creamy and you can tell the thing that's been cooked for a long long time. Let me try the spicy one

  • That's delicious. I mean you can't even compare the broth; the broth here is 100%, hands-down, the best of all the places

  • I've ever been to. And just in case you never had hot pot before these are cooking instructions

  • There's not a lot of ingredients in terms of the sauce bar

  • But we'll make do. Some Chinese barbecue sauce, sesame,

  • minced garlic, we've gotta add some hot oil -- a lot of hot oil. Finish with some soy sauce

  • Just the way I like it: really red. Alright, I got my plum juice. I got my watermelon juice. I got my sauce

  • Tastes good. I'm ready to rock and roll. This is their little fried bun

  • Oh, I had this before you dip this in condensed milk

  • It's actually really good; salty and sweet who says you can't start off with dessert? First round is all meat

  • This is the triple A lamb. Let's start off with this

  • Look how thin this is

  • Beautiful marbling let's do the spicy side. It says ten seconds, but definitely it's gonna be less -- probably five seconds, yep

  • Already done.

  • oh

  • It's a slight, slight, gamy flavor

  • But most of that can be chased away by the broth if you don't want to you don't really even need to dip it in

  • The sauce the broth is flavorful enough and that lamb

  • Man that's tender. This is the triple A. Let's dip this in the regular broth

  • Wow

  • It's good the New Zealand lamb is definitely more gamy; both pieces are ridiculously tender. This is the angus beef and right away

  • You could tell this is a different than regular hot pot fatty beefs

  • Because just look at all the marbling, let me show you. This is a plate of fatty beef. I don't know if guys can tell

  • The difference, but you see lean meat here

  • And then they get the fat. But here the marbling of fat goes all the way

  • Through and that's what's going to make this uber tender

  • I could right away tell the difference between that cut of meat

  • And almost every other cut of beef I've had at all-you-can-eat hot pot places. I'm gonna try another piece in the spicy one

  • Right away as soon as you bite down. That meat, it's just not tough at all

  • I mean that mean will lose a fight to a baby, so

  • Incredibly gentle and

  • Smooth and melty, that's probably why this place only has buffets over the summer because otherwise they go bankrupt

  • I mean just by me alone. I'd be here every single day eating that beef

  • This is the beef soaked in beer, how beautiful

  • I mean all the meat coloring it is so pretty

  • It's like they took a Crayon and just colored the meat in before they brought it out. You can smell the beer

  • That beef is really tender with just a slight taste of alcohol. It's actually much better than the wine marinated meat

  • I had on the west coast. This is the cubano pork it's a black pork from Japan. I know this might seem kind of scary

  • because it looks really oily, but I think it's gonna be good. Come here, little piggy

  • Wow, I love the hot oil here. It's actually spicy. Make sure you bib up trust me no matter

  • how ridiculous look you're going to be the one laughing at the end when everybody else has been covered in splatter

  • Those of you who don't like spam, I dare you to try it with your hot pot. Delicious

  • I know it's a mystery meat, but that's a delicious mystery. This is the egg-y pork dumpling. It looks beautiful

  • It's like eating up pork omelet

  • I'm not really sure what I just ate; did I just eat dumpling? Did I just eat a omelette? Did I just have breakfast?

  • Rolled up tofu skin

  • I'm gonna bring this to my mouth right away. What I love about fried tofu is they soak up all the juice from the broth

  • Then they soak up the juice from your sauce

  • They never get soggy so they still have like a crunchy texture to them. Then you add some

  • Beef to it. It's like a sleeping bag. Let's just wrap it up

  • It's like I just ate a bunch of tender beef that just went camping and I just scooped them up

  • in their beautifully delicious tofu sleeping bags. That was a great all-encompassing fight. You got the meat, you got the tofu,

  • you got a little crunch from the tofu and then you got the soup that sucked inside the tofu. That's like everything

  • I love about hotpot all in one bite. This is my favorite part of a hotpot is the potato. You guys might laugh

  • You guys might be like okay?

  • What is it you like a potato?

  • And you're saying this because you never tried potato and hotpot. Take it out after it's been boiling for a while

  • So it's nice and mushy, dip it in your sauce and that might be one of the best bite of potato

  • You'll ever have. Another favorite of mine

  • is the noodles. When you're almost done with your hot pot, put some noodles into your hot pot and let it soak up all that

  • delicious flavor from the broth and from all the food you've been tossing inside and out comes this beauty. Look at how lovely that is

  • Eating noodles at the end of hotpot is like an encore. It's like tasting everything you put into the hot pot all over again

  • It's like Benjamin buttoning yourself

  • That didn't even need the spices. I gotta have my chinese fried dough. Love Chinese fried dough and hotpot

  • It's oily, it's messy. You've got that nice broth in there

  • That's my hot pot guilty pleasure. I mean hot pot already is a guilty pleasure

  • This is my guilty pleasure of my guilty pleasure. Alright, we're at a critical juncture of our hot pot meal

  • We still have a lot of food on the table. I think everybody here is done

  • This is where I make all my money back. Come to Papa

  • Come to Mikey. it's like herding cattle. That's it. I'm done.

  • I have a really weird

  • Reflex when I'm full, I sneeze non-stop about 10 to 12 times

  • I kid you guys not. That means I sneeze, that means I'm done. Really done.

  • Great hot pot experience

  • And they give you a little yogurt at the end. Looks like the best way to top off a hot pot meal with some nice yogurt-y drink

  • Then check this out; you guys might've laughed at my bib

  • But look look what it protected me from. This could have been on my soy sauce shirt

  • So I could have had like soy sauce and grease on my shirt. Let's talk about the hot pot

  • I of course opted for the premium hot pot

  • which is additional $4 bringing my total here today to

  • $26.95 still not a bad deal for

  • all-you-can-eat. In terms of lamb, the triple A lamb that was on the regular menu and the special New Zealand lamb that was on the premium menu

  • I didn't feel like those two were really that much different; the New Zealand lamb was even gamy-er

  • But I really love the angus beef

  • So I would say shell out the extra 4 bucks and get the premium items. If you do I would rate the meat quality here

  • A solid 4. The hot pot, although there's only two selections, is probably the best

  • hot pot broth you're going to find at an all-you-can-eat buffet. So I will get the broth another solid 4. When it comes to ingredients

  • they do have a good selection here so I'd give that a 3.5. The sauce bar itself, it is kind of limited

  • But with the nice broth, I don't feel like you need as much sauce at other places

  • But I will still get that at 3 and finally when it comes to service

  • I feel like it's gonna be hit or miss, I've been here when the service isn't so good

  • But today it was spot on they brought everything

  • We needed of course

  • I was here at 4 o'clock so wasn't a lot of people here

  • But just today alone I gave the service another 4. Which totals 18.5 with a 3.7 average

  • But I do feel this is definitely one of the best tasting all-you-can-eat

  • hot pot buffets in New York City

  • Definitely the best quality

  • I wouldn't suggest coming here if they didn't have the buffet because then I feel like you were usually spend over

  • 30 - 35 dollars on your portion alone. So with the buffet 100% hit this place up

  • Bubble tea must have after some great hotpot. You know what I love about hotpot other than it being ridiculously delicious?

  • Hot pot is one of those meals that

  • everybody loves. You could be a meat lover, a veggie lover, a spice lover, a non spice lover, a bland water veggie eater

  • Whatever you like hotpot has something for you. Hot pot is like the

  • It's like the UN of food. If hotpot was in charge of the world, there'd be world peace.

  • Okay, maybe not that extreme, but it's for sure a food that brings people together, and that's one of the many reasons

  • I love it. And guys, like I mentioned in the beginning of this video, this is New York City

  • There's still a ton of

  • all-you-can-eat hot hot places out there for me to try and I can't wait to get to them all. And guys as always

  • all the places I went to in this video is listed in my description box below; all the scores, all that

  • that's just my own opinion, you might have something different, and that's completely okay

  • But definitely get these places to try and I would love to know how you like them and as always

  • Thank you all so much for watching this video and until we eat again. I'll see you later

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