重庆老九门火锅士嘉堡店chongqing Lao Jiu Men Hotpot 9

Great hotpot place to eat at. Especially good if you're craving hot pot late at night since they open until the early hours of the next day. Typical hot pot experience with the added feature of ordering everything straight from an iPad with a selection of different soup bases and different sliced meats and vegetables. There's also an area to create your own dipping sauce. Good customer service but mostly it's a self serve experience with servers dropping plates of food to cook at your table when ready.

Decent hot pot. Good price. Nothing very special but they open late which is a bonus!

lol the first review I saw on the page says that the restaurant is slick looking. I'd like to add that, ironically, the floor is also rather slick and that you should be careful walking anywhere in the restaurant. You can see the staff sliding around and it just seems like an accident waiting to happen. I can see it with the staff carrying very hot items and then slipping and falling and it all landing on them. Eek.

Something weird was going on with our burner. For the longest time only one side of the pot was bubbling and the other was only struggling to get warm. It was frustrating to have to wait so long and only cook our food on the one side.

Being able to mix your own sauce seems so natural to me so it was peculiar when my friend took a video of the sauce bar to send to her husband since it's not like that in LA.

The staff were attentive, speedy with bringing out the food and friendly.

Wow the selection and quality is great, from standard meatballs to sliced meat to frogs legs and special hand made shrimp balls from raw paste. The Teddy bear is a cute touch. Soup is good but get here early or make reservations because they run out the Teddy Bear or Hello Kitty soup sculpture quickly. Great atmosphere too