Nice 2 Meet U Chuan Chuan Hot Pot

Food 10/10Service 10/10 Ambiance 10/10Hotpot has never been more affordable! This hotpot is about $15.99 for up to 8 ppl. Plus $5 per person that includes the side bar buffet. It has salads, desserts, and sauces for the hotpot. Additionally, they have more sides in the fridge like meats and veggies that can be purchased for an additional price. Go check them out! You can take me laters!

Hot pot reimagined! I really enjoyed my experience at this restaurant. The price is listed on a piece of paper taped to the wall and is based on the color and shape of the plate that you grab. The skewers range from 50cents to 1 dollar depending on what you grab. Each stick is 50 cents, and some meats have two sticks in them . I personally enjoyed the beef wrapped enoki skewers. If you don't want to eat meat/seafood from a skewer, they have meat slices to order and choose from. We chose the bone broth and MILD spicy soup. The spicy soup is spicy but flavorful. They recommended we drop down a level from whatever we thought we could handle, and I'm so glad we did. My favorite broth was the bone broth! They also have a sauce bar with garlic, cilantro, satay sauce, chili sauce, etc and a side bar with seaweed salad, cucumber salad, etc for an EXTRA cost (its not included!). I thought the options from the side bar were good and marinated really well. Parking can be a hassle during peak hours because it's quite small and shared with other businesses there. There are plenty of tables inside that are nicely spaced apart. The servers are friendly and willing to answer questions and recommend options. I recommend trying this place out especially if youre not too keen on ayce places.

Really enjoyed this hot pot spot! Price is based on what you select from the colored plates that are self served when selecting the choices from the vegetables, meat, and seafood! This is not based on AYCE which is great and you can take home the food you don't finish after. Enjoyed the sides they offered and their sauce bar was amazing!! The bone broth was creamy and rich as well as the tomato broth wasn't too sweet... Combined both and sipped as a soup and it was bomb.com! I highly recommend trying this place out.Harry took great care of us and made sure we had enough broth and made sure we were doing ok!

Enjoyed the sliced beef and the skewers. I've had hot pot before but like the chuan chuan experience. This has been my favorite tomato base soup that I've tried to date.The restaurant is well clean and the service is friendly. A lot of stuff is intended to do on your own but our server was helpful when we had questions about the menu.

I'm a huge fan of hot pot and loved the concept here! AYCE (all you can eat) can be a bit too much for me, as I can't stomach a lot of meet. So I loved that you can choose as much or as little as you want. The sauce bar had a huge variety, and I loved all of the appetizer options. I thought the skewers were a great deal at $.50 cents a pop, and there were so many delicious choices from seafood, to every kind of noodle to choose from in their refrigerators. I chose the bone broth with no spice and my husband had the mild beef spicy tallow, both were very flavorful and tasty. Our favorite meat off of the menu was the wagyu, which was melt-in-your-mouth delicious. The best part was since it's not AYCE we got to enjoy our leftovers all over again the next day!

This was a fun hotpot dinner experience with a group of my friends (about 10-12of us) to try out. We came here around 8pm on a Tuesday evening last year, and it wasn't busy at all. We got seated right away, and had one of the waiters explain the concept to us. All the skewers and sauce bar are self serve ($3 extra for sauce bar per person), and the broth & specific meat selections are through the server. We all shared a split pot of their szechuan spicy & bone broth. Throughout the evening, we grabbed lots of skewer options and vegetable / noodle trays. If I am remembering correctly, you cannot put back an item you took out (due to food safety). You keep track of the self-serve options by collecting skewers in the cups at the corner of the tables, and plates / dishes on the side. At the end, the waiter will count everything and total your bill up for you. Keep in mind that it can add up! Something we didn't pay much attention to was that some skewers have two sticks, meaning it might be more expensive than you think and not worth it in the end.This isn't a spot I would go to regularly because of the hidden expenses (and I like doing hotpot at home), but definitely fun to try a bunch of items with others. The variety was great and I thought the quality of items were really good. There wasn't much I didn't like. It was one girl in our group's first time doing hotpot, and she thought it was a great experience.

I was so impressed with all of the options for Hot Pot. I loved the refrigerated section & meat options on the menu. Next visit, I would try the Fried Doughnuts, Fried Tofu Puffs, Egg Dumpling & several other Beef skewers. The staff was so kind & my broth was boiling before I returned from browsing the refrigerated section. Overall, it was a fun Hot Pot spot!

If you are looking for analogies on the type of place this is, think of Kula Revolving Sushi, minus the conveyor belt, and hotpot version. Or if you've been to Seapot (which isn't here in San Diego), without the conveyor belt. The ambiance of the restaurant is bright at the tables with a certain element of darkness in the background. You can also place a reservation if needed.Having a meal here is best for communal sharing, best on a cold day. You pick your broth to share for the table with two choices. For the spice level, it could be spicy. If you are unsure, you can have them start you off mild and then add more spice if it's not enough. The menu has items and drinks that aren't available at their appetizers (graffiti) or fridge area. Some of their popular items that even had me eyeing it like the crispy fried pork.After writing down your order, go to the graffiti decorated area to make your sauce to dip your items in. There is also have soups and some fruit with sesame balls - that's usually grabbed towards the end of your meal, but you can do it anytime.Then after putting down your items, you grab a white tray, and make a second visit to gaze upon the fridge and see what items you want in the hotpot. They have a plethora of meat along with some vegetarian options on the stick. Majority of items are seasoned spicy. This is not an all you can eat via one price. One stick is 50 cents. The boxes are priced based on color (which are unlisted).Once you grab your food options, your pot should have been brought to the table already and you can start to enjoy! My favorite to grab was the money bags as we went during Lunar New Year Eve.Parking may be a tad hard if you going during hungry time but there is also street parking. Bathrooms were alright. There are also shelves for holding food that you grabbed, but many patrons put their clothes in the middle to low areas.The most sticks the server who was counting ours was 200 sticks. We ate 78 sticks worth between 5 people at our table. Came out to around $175 without tip. We had 2 big eaters, 2 medium eaters, and 1 small eater.For big eaters, this may not be the place for you to splurge. But for small eaters, this is perfect to eat the amount you want. For those with food sensitivities, it will be hard to eat if your table since everything will be easily cross-contaminated (if you come in a group).

Hubs and I heard great things about this place from friends so we just had to check it out. We went in early for lunch, and we were impressed by how spacious and clean it is, with nice murals decorating the walls. We were seated promptly and the staff was really thorough in explaining how their ordering system works. I actually really love that you order a la carte here. I can never really eat much at a time, so ayce is a waste for me. Here, I feel content to order anything I want to try, knowing that I can take leftovers home for later if I can't finish. We ordered some of the prime beef and lamb from the menu, along with some crispy pork. The skewers are $0.50 each, so we grabbed a bunch of those. During lunch they had a deal for buy 1 get 1 for the refrigerator color coded boxes, so we did a few of those too - tofu, shrimp balls, noodles, veggies etc. We were super impressed with how fresh and delicious everything was. We got the bone broth and tomato broth to cook it all in, and we made good use of the sauce bar for sauce and dry seasonings to dip the food in. The sauce bar also has fruits and cold dishes like Cucumber Salad, along with desserts. The warm sweet soup with sesame filled mochi was delicious We definitely want to go back and try more of this place with friends!

Cool spot to try out skewer style hot pot. Everything is self serve from the veggies, noodles, meat skewers, and sauce. You can order plates of meat with the servers. This spot is not all you can eat, so you pay by the amount of skewers you grab and the boxes of veggies and noodles are color coded by price. The house spicy beef tallow soup is incredibly spicy and numbing. My friend and I had to fish out the peppers but it was still very spicy. I like their bone broth the best!Service is pretty good. Self serve stations are well maintained. Parking can be a pain during prime hours here.