The Magic Of Chongqing Hot Pot

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There has been too many steamboat places popping up everywhere in Singapore, claiming to be from Chongqing, Sichuan etc. But for good quality affordable steamboat in a comfortable environment, do visit The Magic of ChongQing Hot Pot!

The Magic of ChongQing Hot Pot offers a wide range of the typical steamboat ingredients. Each ingredient was very fresh and well-prepared. A few items to point out were the fish paste, carp fish fillet, fillet of pork and bai ling mushrooms. The thin layer of fish paste was very fresh, absolutely no tinge of fishiness. Similarly, the thinly sliced carp fish fillet was fresh and very tender. The bai ling mushrooms could easily pass off as sliced abalone.

Each patron was also offered a standard serving of Meat and Chives Dumpling, Xiao Long Bao, Egg-coated Glutinous Squares, Fried Rolled Buns, Water Chestnut Jelly and Eight Treasure “Black Rice”. We particularly like the platter of desserts. The sweet treats were a good contrast to the salty steamboat.

We were also recommended to order the signature Eight Treasure Tea. Supposedly containing 8 different ingredients (though we could only isolate 6), the Eight Treasure Tea was fragrant and was a very good thirst quencher.

For good quality steamboat with fresh ingredients at an affordable price, the Magic of ChongQing Hot Pot is your best choice.

Read lots of reviews and decided to try out this place. Visited this place on Hari Raya, probably it is a holiday, thus the price was at $35++ per pax for buffet

It was quite pack and their business is good, staffs were very busy, and most of them still keep their smile on their faces. A role model for service industry.

Good variety of the food, but short of crabs (my friend prefer crabs), kind of disappointed on this, and fortunately the prawns help in carving of the seafood.

I love the pork belly, awesome!! Cut to thin slice and it is real good, and we had a lot of that.

Pretty disappointed with lamp serving, after the 1st serving, the latter dish was served in small portion on small plate, probably they want to limit the wastage, but the portion is still quite small (4-5 silces per plate).

Overall experience is relatively good, especially in their service, but there is a price to pay for, even at their normal rate of $29++, personally it is quite pricely. There are lots of other choices with more afforable rate.

Inlcusive of drinks, tax, etc, we spent around $50 per pax, that's a lot for buffet steamboat.

Well, there is no free lunch in this world.

It will be depend on yr budget.

My family went there to celebrate my sister's birthday and overall, we had a great time!

FOOD- We ordered buffet steamboat with chicken soup on one side and ma la on the other. Personally, i would have preferred tomyam, but they dont have that soup. the soup was average, not exactly the most tasty i have eaten, unfortunately. However, the ingredients were good. must orders are the fresh prawns on a stick, fu zhou fishballs, thinly sliced beef and cockles.

Ambience- it is a restaurant setting, but it is rather cramped and noisy. but which steamboat place isnt cramped and noisy? =) at least this one had aircon.

Service- the service was excellent. from the old auntie designated to our private room to the 3 managers incharge. Everyone was extremely friendly. They also keep thanking us for coming. the three managers also put on a mini 'show' for my sister by singing the birthday song in 5 different languages!! It was really quite funny and good for the birthday video. They talk to us like we were their long lost relatives!

Value- overall, this place is good for family celebrations. a bit expensive especially when there are so many steamboat buffet places around now. but if u want a restaurant setting with fast and good service and decent food.. this is not bad =)

There were around 20 of us and we decided to have a feast. With so many people it really will cost $$$. In a continuing effort to be a good organiser, and eat relatively cheaply, I have decided to have buffet steamboat. Headed to Chongqing buffet. We were greeted by a very friendly waiter. He seated us right away; After a quick peruse of the menu we order the foods and beverages. The waiter patiently took our order.

The decor of the restaurant is inviting with good atmosphere.

There have a good selection in the buffet, good in quality and quantity. Fresh foods with good soup base is the most important component in having a good steamboat meal. I can't deny that their soup is good and extremely tasty compared to a lot of other places.

The restaurant was busy but the service was very curteous and prompt. The staff are very warm, welcoming, friendly and approachable. Thank you Ben for serving us from the start until the end of the dinner.

All of us enjoyed the meal and average per person is around S$35, consider reasonable and value for money

The only fault I can really give to this restaurant was the cashier who is rather cold and unfriendly. She don't even say thank you when we pay our bill. I am not complaining this lady but wish to highlight that in order to build a reputation and environment where people continue to visit for good quality of food and service provided, I think the service quality still the priority.

We wanted to bring our ang moh friends from Sweden for a Hot Pot Buffet experience, I initially wanted to book LLP as we have tried and proven it before. As we tried to make the reservations too late, LLP was fully booked and we decided to try this place as we were very nearby.

Below is my 2 cents of thoughts :

Food / Beverage - Plus point everything was fresh as the business is really good. U can eat n eat like any other buffet restaurants. I am not a real big fan of Mala soup, missed my tom yum n laksa soup really.

Ambience - Great, loved the aircon, so crucial for hot pot

Value - Too ex i felt. The almost same food selection i can find at LLP.

Service - It was raved by so many reviewers but we did not happen to feel or experience that. Service was just so normal, service staff working/looking like zombies, probably cos too much crowd.

The $$ damage - Many times more than what I have to spend at LLP. (2 times infact!!)

Surprise to say that such services is to be seen in this restaurant.

Couples of weeks ago, I visited here with my family to celebrate my grandma's birthday. Everythings went well as normally and food was good. Until the dinner was going to end, while waiting for the birthday cake to be serve, the manager named Joseph together with his crew came with the birthday cake and to everyone's surprise, they sang a birthday song and was in Cantonese caught everyone in a big surprise, as not expected. They sang the song so well that my 80 years old grandma was so happy that her mouth could not close up. I felt very thankful for the efforts they had out in and appreciated for what they had done. I really don't know how to express my thankfullness but can only say THANK YOU to all of you.

Have been to this place and definitely will go again and again... Recommended by my friend. Yes this place is the best. The service crew is very friendly.Quality food and delicious soup. Oh Gosh! I love the soup.

Joseph, the manager and the other staff look after us professionally with a commitment to excellent customer service. Keep up the good job!

Bravo!

This is my 2nd visit to the restaurant. That day was my mom birthday and I have decided to take her out for a happy dinner. Although it was a busy night and I can see the restaurant was a bit crowded. I still chose to go in and was great by a young man. He usher us to a table and took our order. He was very friendly and have shown a great patience towards us. My mom is a bit fussy type and thank god she is very happy with the food and the service provided. Even though the service is a bit slow (Food arrive a bit slow & the time to bill took long time). Overall it is still acceptable as I understand is a busy night for them. I was so impressed by the service provide by the young guy named Ben and his team. These people truly deserve it. Bravo! I will definitely come back again and will recommend this restaurant to all my friend and relative.

I admited that it may be a mistake for me to request for a VIP discount when I visited the restaurant without the VIP card.

But do the cashier has the right to question me as if I was trying to cheat a discount.

I visit the restaurant with some friends a couple of days ago, did had a good meal as we were always like the food there. This is not the first time we visited the restaurant.

But when I was requesting for the bill, I realised that I didn't bring my VIP Card. So I decided to speak to the cashier to see if there is a discount as I am really the VIP Card holder of the restaurant(just like any Singaporean as you never try, you never know).

But this cashier named Susan interrogated me as if I was trying to cheat the discount. Keep asking me all sorts of ridiculars questions like "my Vip card number is what so that she is able to key into the system". I might not know all my credit cards account number and how can I remember the VIP card number. And if every restaurants give me a VIP Card, is it my duty to remember all the card numbers.

Her impolite ways of qustioning and giving me the looks as if I asking for trouble lets me and keep on faulting me that it was my duty to bring the VIP card and without it don't have to say anything.

Check if this is the management of the restaurant. Or maybe she should put it at a better manner of explaining to me and not keep on penalising me. Really spoiled my mood of that night.

I went with my partner on a Wednesday evening at around 7pm.

Was greeted by the (manager?) at the door and then led in to a table in the center of the restaurant. it wasn't busy as we saw only 3 other tables occupied. The staff had given us tables which was futhur away from the others which was a nice gesture.

My partner and I decided to choose the buffet set as we didn't want to rack our brains on what items to order. The auntie serving us was so helpful and pleasant!! I noticed that she was only a part timer (as stated on her name tag) but she went through the process of the "3 step thingy" as well as arrange what kind of dishes to have in the buffet.

We went for the Ma La soup and the Chicken Soup and we felt although the Ma La soup wasn't as good as some we've had in Shanghai, the chicken soup base was excellent. Thick, off-white cloudy stock which will put any home cooked soup to shame.

We had slices of salmon, abalone, chicken, fish, lots of beef, prawns, fish paste and loads of veggies presented to us. The staff were really efficient in clearing the empty plates and topping up our 8 treasure tea with the long spout kettle albeit slight spills.

We began to see more people coming in from 8pm but service standards were still tip-top. I really liked the "motherly" style of service from that auntie which reminded me alot of older established restaurants like "the ship". It really made me feel I was well taken care of and not a lamb for slaughter. (That said, we didn't go for the lamb coz there was an additional charge and I'm not a big fan of lamb)

Definitely a place to come back to.. ^_^