Having received a voucher that expires on 31/Jan, we decide to give Thumbs-up Restaurant a shot. We have chosen three clear soups as our soup of the day. Mushroom soup has the strong fragrant of different mushroom from shiitake, enoki and some oyster mushroom. Tomato soup on the other side is very refreshing and sweet. Clear soup was okay. Thumbs-up hot pot offers great range of quality ingredients at good value but slightly higher price than the market. The sauce fee was made mandatory for $3 per person which I think could have a change of policy as hot pot restaurants in Melbourne are starting to remove the fee. Service was great by Grace and her team. We enjoy every bit of the food. However, being the last customer of the day, we felt that we were rushed to leave as they turn off music and air conditioning. It was overall a great dining experience with Thumbs-up hot pot. Will be back again.
Still my first choice even tho there’re many new hotpot places. Excellent service, authentic taste and reasonable price. The self service sauce table was great. Staff there were so friendly and patient.
The food is fresh and good. The staffs are polite and friendly but busy. And they allowed me to put my birthday cake in their refrigerator for a while and also gave me some candles. This is a really nice place for dinner.
The food was good and there is a lot of variety but it was on the slightly pricier side. The goji oxtail soup had a nice flavour and we ordered to have two different flavoured soup with the other being ‘slightly spicy’.
The sauce bar was pretty extensive with good variety. Service was attentive and quick.
Food : Serves an authentic version of the Chongqing hot pot complete with the super spice soup! It gets hotter as you go along, and all the ingredients we had were really fresh and went well with the hot pot. Myriad of sauces for you to combine to your heart's desire.
Service : great, the servers were very attentive.
Ambience : nice surroundings for having a hot pot. We were here during lunch hour.
Having received a voucher that expires on 31/Jan, we decide to give Thumbs-up Restaurant a shot. We have chosen three clear soups as our soup of the day. Mushroom soup has the strong fragrant of different mushroom from shiitake, enoki and some oyster mushroom. Tomato soup on the other side is very refreshing and sweet. Clear soup was okay. Thumbs-up hot pot offers great range of quality ingredients at good value but slightly higher price than the market. The sauce fee was made mandatory for $3 per person which I think could have a change of policy as hot pot restaurants in Melbourne are starting to remove the fee. Service was great by Grace and her team. We enjoy every bit of the food. However, being the last customer of the day, we felt that we were rushed to leave as they turn off music and air conditioning. It was overall a great dining experience with Thumbs-up hot pot. Will be back again.
a little bit pricy, but delicious food experience
Make sure you asked for Beef Fat and Fermented Rice with you hot chilli soup.
The best thing about eating out in Melbourne isn't finding things that taste great, it's connecting with cultures all around the world without leaving the box hill city. And, if I can assume that you, gentle reader, are not one of the 70,000 Chinese students living among us, then you – like me – will find Hotpot an energising, spicy adventure.
There are plenty of Sichuan hotpot restaurants in Melbourne but I haven't seen one as immersive and garrulous .It's popular too, so busy that I was phoned an hour before I arrived, not so much to confirm my booking as to warn me that I better get there on time, and preferably early. I hightailed it.
You walk in the grand entrance to be greeted by a head-waggling hand-flapping larger-than-life mascot. You sit in carved throne-like chairs wearing a daggy plastic bib. You hear no skerrick of English as you dive into your meal. And then, before you leave, you spritz yourself at the odour-neutralising perfume machine. It's so fun!
Excellent Chongqing hot pot, I got the Super Spicy broth with extra chillies and Sichuan peppers. Good mouth numbing hot pot with fresh ingredients.
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