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The latter is a hard-to-find dish with meaty pork spines piled up in tangy broth with loads of makrut lime, lemongrass, and galangal. Traditionally, this Fujian dish from the Qing Dynasty 墨尔本 火锅 店 comprises up to 30 ingredients, including chicken, ham, taro, mushrooms and shark’s fin. Our recipe features more accessible ingredients, while maintaining a high-protein hotpot.
On Balmoral Avenue, not far at all from Springvale train station, here you can expect all-you-can-eat hot pot, plenty of fresh seafood, veggies, whatever you want. A meal at Street Hot Pot Springvale is an intense flavour hit and the restaurant is perfect for any kind of casual occasion. The buffet menu changes according to whether you’re dining for lunch or dinner but, whatever time of day, quality is absolutely assured. For one of the most unique and intriguing dining experiences in this part of suburban Melbourne, advanced reservations are essential.

After choosing your favourite ingredients from the open fridge (priced at $3.68 per 100g), follow the neon signs to the cosiest outdoor area, full of gas heaters and artificial grass. Your best bets for mookata are Nana Thai BBQ & Hotpot on Bourke Street and Soi 38, tucked away in the car park off Mcilwraith Place. Next door to Nana is Thai Tide, which offers giant tom yum and tom leng saap hotpots.
You have the option to split your cooking pot into two or three sections to try more bases. Our tip is to try their signature stir-fry spicy pot – it’s a dry version of their famous soup base that uses over 20 kinds of Chinese herbs and spices for a fiery kick. Remember to ask for a complimentary bowl of steamed white rice for a match made in malatang heaven. The first thing you’ll notice when you get to Hot Hot Pot is the wall featuring around 70 ingredients, which change with the seasons.

Step into Melbourne’s taste of China and enjoy a meal at Old Crystal Jade, a restaurant serving authentic Cantonese food with traditional hot pot cooking. We offer a menu full of delicious Chinese food available for dine-in and takeaway. We’re bringing the rich flavours of China to your home in Melbourne to spread joy and culture through tasty food.
All you can eat buffets, give you an option of dining on limitless hotpot for 2 hours – available from 11.30am, or wait until 5pm for the A La Carte menu to begin. China Chilli has many vegetarian and gluten free options and of course a wide range of spicy food. If you came as a party of four, the same amount of broth would suffice for all the ingredients to be cooked in and the soup would be even more delicious with 4 people cooking their individual choices in the broth.

It was definitely a lovely experience sitting in the beautiful restaurant, marvelling at the dragon with a projection of the moving sky above it and chowing down on my hot pot. Then, you’ll get an individual pot filled with the broth of your choice, which means it’s time to grab any of the ingredients on the conveyor belt. With a selection of abalone, black-truffle prawn balls, mushroom parcels and fresh tofu, it’s an all-you-can-cook adventure. If you’re still feeling a bit peckish, there are even ready-to-eat dishes on the train, with options like spicy cold noodles, fresh oysters and plates of sushi and sashimi. Home of the steambowl, China Chilli is a large and lively Chinese restaurant dedicated to all things spicy, serving cuisine from Sichuan. Choose your favourite broth and all the toppings you desire plus a selection of their 15 different sauces and cook your meal yourself in a traditional hotpot, or steam bowl at your table.
Then January hit, and like Chinese restaurants everywhere, business has been hammered by fear surrounding the COVID-x virus, and travel bans. More than 100,000 Chinese students, who drive Carlton's dining economy (and were certainly Panda's target market), are stuck overseas. "Came to this place three times last week not only because I’m a hotpot addict but that the food is absolutely amazing especially the soup. Will recommend and revisit again." In late 2019, Carlton’s slightly spooky, super kitschy theatre restaurant Dracula’s underwent a $6 million makeover and became a palatial hotpot restaurant. For introverts, WeLive for Hotpot has timber separators and single serve hotpots.