604 Just Eat: Chinese Cuisine - Hot Pot @ Taiwan Taipei Original Pot

Nov 8th, 2015

Taiwan Taipei Original Pot @ Central Richmond

Food:  4/5   Service:  3.5/5   Atmosphere:  4/5   Price:  Avg. $30/person

It was my very first visit and I was very excited to try the Taiwanese Hua Diao Chicken pot.  Taiwan Taipei Original Pot is located in Venezia Place on Alexandra Road so beware it could be bloody hard to find a parking spot during weekend.  I heard a lot of raving comments about Taiwan Taipei Original Pot and the interesting steps to enjoy the hot pot.

Unlike the typical Chinese hot pot places, the staff cooks for us and the toppings are cooked in a pot of sauce, not a full pot of soup base.  In general there are three steps.  First, eat the stirred-fry chicken in the pot. Second, add different toppings into the left over sauce and braise them. The toppings are such as beef slices, meat balls, noodles and etc. Lastly, add vegetables cook in soup. 

White Grape Beer

Yayy!  They have the specialty Taiwanese fruit beer selection here too!  Love it!

 

Fried Oyster @ $10.88

Light and crispy, very delicious!

Step 1:  Boneless Hua Diao Chicken - Small @ $24.38
We firstly enjoyed the boneless Hua Dian chicken.  OMG it was soooo delicious!  The boneless chicken pieces were marinated and cooked perfectly; it was so tender and juicy.
The sauce was very flavorful with the nice fragrance of the Hua Diao wine.

Step 1:  Macanese Spare Rib Pot @ $24.99
The spare rib pot came after the chicken.  The ribs were so tender so it was way a lot easier to eat compared with the huge bone marrow pot.  I like the soup the most; very rich, cremay and flavorful.  Good!

Step 2 & 3
Mushroom Meatball/ Fish Dumpling/ Tong Ho (veggie)/ Enoki Mushroom/ Bean Curd

For the toppings at step 2, the server added the side orders of toppings for us, braised the toppings into the leftover rich sauce of chicken.  It was okay but not surprisingly good.  I like step 3 more, we ordered vegetables and rice to cook in soup of spare rib pot, which was congee.  Nice to wrap up the dinner with some vegetables and a bowl of congee.

 

The chicken pot was very delicious and unique so I would say it's worthwhile to try if you have not been here yet.  The step 2 hot pot idea was so so to me.  Strongly recommend you to make booking in advance to secure the spot for dinner!
 

1160-8580 Alexandra Road, Richmond