The Hotpot Icecream

This review is based on a party of 5 sharing a serving of hot pot ice cream.Pro: Nice and bright ambianceVariety of offering -- ice creams, boba, snacksCons: A small hot pot ice cream is kinda high in price, ~$20, -- 6 small scoops of ice cream with marshmallows, cookies, etc and hot chocolate dip. From my observation, the durian tofu puddings seem popular. I saw a lot of people ordered them

PARKING: Parking is limited in the parking lot.AMBIANCE: It is a casual dine in.FOOD/DRINKS: Placed a large ordered for a group which includes durian avocado smoothie, four season fruit tea, spicy pineapple with boba, ginger milk salted foam, banh mi, and fried calamari. General consensus, it is overpriced compared to other boba shops in Bellaire. Drinks were not good. The spicy pineapple drink, you can't even taste the pineapple. You only taste the chamoy. Fried calamari has too much batter so it was more breaded than the amount of meat.SERVICE: Service is terrible. Called ahead to placed the order (I repeated my order twice and had it repeated back to me yet they still messed up my order) and they said estimated pick up time is 30 minutes. Came in, and they were scrambling to get my order ready. They even almost forgot some of my items if I didn't remind them. When we about to dig in, they completely forgot the avocado in the durian avocado smoothie. Instead of getting the ginger milk salted foam, we got a completely different drink which was a peach tea.... On top of that, they forgot boba for the spicy pineapple drink. NOTE: Please do yourself a favor and skip this place and go somewhere else that has better food, drink, and service that won't mess up your order.

The idea was nice but it's just make your own chocolate covered mini marshmallow, gummy bears, broken animal crackers and such. The gelato lacked full bodied flavor. You can taste the flavor but it's not fully there. The strawberry gelato was sour, Oreo gelato was vanilla flavored with occasional Oreo flavors. The coconut coffee (blended) was nasty.

Service was very nice here. Drinks were just okay overall and the ice cream was also okay. We haven't found our favorite ice cream flavor yet. I think that they have the hotpot ice cream so that you can try different flavors.

Tried this place out with some friends. This place is a great hangout spot, especially for large groups. The drinks are alright and lack flavor, but they are made quickly. The fried calamari and french fries are good, but the popcorn chicken is mediocre. However, it all comes out fresh and is fried to order. They also have a great selection of ice cream flavors.

Came back for "banh beo chen" as the new item as well as my favorite item so far from here. "Banh beo chen" is authentic and tasty to me. Love it. Server: super helpful, nice. However, the kitchen is slow, food took longer than it should be.

We've driven by this place a few times and thought...what in the world is hotpot ice cream. Tonight we decided to find out. There was really loud music blasting outside, which almost made us turn around. But we moved forward and were rewarded by surprisingly good ice cream. First of all, the guy at the ice cream counter was really nice and let us take our time and sample some flavors. We got two scoops - pineapple (4/5) and lychee (5+/5). The ice cream is light and not too sweet. I loved the lychee - it was refreshing and had a great finish. The pineapple had just a hint of tart plus a great pineapple flavor. Both had tiny pieces of fruit (not chunky) which was a nice surprise. Hotpot ice cream is like fondue chocolate with ice cream, fruit, and maybe other dippers. Mystery solved. I think I'll go straight for the ice cream though. There were flavors I haven't seen in other places (more Asian flavors mixed with a handful of traditional Western ones).A bit expensive, but this is the first ice cream place that I don't find too sweet and heavy, leaving me thirsty after, so will be back. It's $4 for a scoop. Probably better priced for 2 or 3.

Tell me why I went to this place and asked them if their promo was still running and they said "nah that was our software opening only" when they dedass have an add on their own fb account for 9/22-9/30 & 10/05-10/10???Then the owner lady decided to tell me that "they did it for their soft opening" but never admitted or denied it for their current promotion??If yall are gna run promos but be stingy about literal tea, yall in the wrong business. They were hesitant to approve it and honestly I was ready to leave but they ended up honoring it after keeping me there for a fat minute. they had like 8 people in the back working and it took 15min+ to get my drink after some back and forth like how? It seems like it was a group of friends and their kids making drinks for funsies.I had to dedass show them the Facebook to let em know I wouldn't have time to fake an ad. They ended up letting me get my BOGO of 4 drinks totalI get it, first week openings always rough but bro, you can't be serious. As a business where's the organization? You can't make an excuse by saying "my staffs new and are learning" there's literally training to be done prior an opening so why not do that? And why are items still being finalized?? Figure it out first then open the store.I'll give them a fair 5 stars on Kindess but a 1 star for being disorganized to where the owner literally had to do everything, she was all over. I also made sure to verify things in English AND Viet, but yeah..didn't helpNow the review for the actual drinks? Overall its mid af. I'd give em a 2, I make better tea at home so ima stick to that. 1. G1 cooling summer tea 50% rec 75% cause flavor isn't there. Not the sweetness but flavor.2.Taro smoothie was blan even w 50% sugar rec 75% I like it tho3. Cinnamon chamile tea is the only good tea I brought home.4. Asked for black sugar boba tiger milk tea got a random ass drink instead. It was our nogo we finally got but it wasn't even correct. I dont even wanna try itAll in all 2 stars and im never buying from here ever again, I'm good. Yall can spend yalls monies thoIma attached some pics of the fb just in case they delete but its proof I wasn't lying.Also names lowkey misleading, if it was "the ice cream hotpot" makes more sense, but I guess it being viet owned words are used backwards so its confusing. Yall be safe tho

It's okay. The stick sandwich I asked for no cilantro, didn't know it would come with only mayo and meat on bread and not even a lot of it. But the bread was good. The ban xeo was okay, not a lot of meat distributed and tons of sprouts. My favorite here was the banh beo. I like that they added little croutons. The ice cream hot pot was lacking. I also thought it was pieces of mochi in the picture, it's baby marshmallows.

This hairy brat was whining loudly when we were leaving to take Vanessa's dad out, so for the first time ever, we brought him out for eldercare weekend.Bebe helped us find a new spot in Chinatown that have patio seating. For the first time, we tried Vietnamese Stick Bread, a long skinny Banh Mi stuffed with traditional grilled pate and green onion). Since it's a narrow baguette, the pate flavor is more intense with less bread surface, and a dash of Sriracha gives it a nice kick! We like it enough to buy another 2 for lunch later. According to my sister-in-law, they find this type of Banh Mi near the Da Nang airport in Vietnamese.The mini Cha Gio is vegetarian and made from prepackaged inventory but packs enough flavors and extra crispy. They come with sweet and sour chili sauce.With the plethora of beverage places in Chinatown, I'm quite impressed by the two drinks we got here, Ice-blended Avocado with Black Sesame and a Strawberry Smoothie. They are made with quality ingredients, and sensible Asian-level sweetness, and delicious to drink! For a quick snack and beverages while hanging out with friends and family, I think this is a cool spot that I would recommend trying.