Do you know how to hot pot, Brisbane/Meanjin? A DIY-style feast where you cook raw meat and vegetables at your own pace over a boiling broth, hot pot takes the middleman (i.e. plating up) out of the equation, and we at Urban List couldn’t be happier about it.
No one wants to do the dishes— here’s where to dip a slab of marbled wagyu into a hotpot near you.
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The X Pot
Level 1, 317 Mains Road, Sunnybank
If you haven’t had dinner on a gold cow while a frozen teddy bear melts into your spicy soup, have you really done hot pot yet? The X Pot is a Sichuan-style hot pot spot that puts the flavour into housemade soups, live seafood tanks, and melt-in-your-mouth gold flaked wagyu. With large hot pots for sharing and smaller sized ones for those who want their own, The X Pot also has private dining rooms with karaoke. Mic drop.
Miss Chilli Hotpot
16 Park Road, Milton
Spice up your life with Miss Chilli Hotpot, who specialise in spicy chongqing-style feasting. Here, the heat is on—and it’s the real deal—best suited for adventurous diners. Choose from fiery soup dishes such as spicy beef tallow, Yugan Yang broth, and spicy and sour, or mushroom and tomato for those with a lower chilli tolerance. As for what’s cooking in your pot, you’ll find a choice of proteins with accompaniments like dried noodles, spinach, mushroom, and Chinese broccoli.
Mountain Hot Pot
Shop 25/662 Compton Rd, Calamvale
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Keeping your hot pot experience fun and tasty, Mountain Hot Pot gives you options, so you can load up on your choice of flavour. From rich mushroom broth to their signature spicy one, feel the heat as you dip your premium beef (hung like gowns on dolls—no kidding), lamb, prawns, fish, or handmade meatballs, along with lotus root, silky enoki, and a range of veggies. Top off your hotpot experience at their sauce station—it’s a gamechanger.
Haidilao
341 Mains Road, Sunnybank
Feast on at Haidilao, where you can choose up to four soup bases for your table—and that’s just the start of it. With everything from marinated beef and quail eggs to tofu skin rolls and bok choy, Haidlao offers hot pot lovers an experience that’s as authentic as its first restaurant opening in China.
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Shabu House
70 Mary Street, Brisbane CBD
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If it’s Japanese hot pot you’re after, Shabu House is the place to go, and you’ll want to arrive with a hefty appetite, because this place is all-you-can-eat. For between $35 and $56 per head, you’ll choose the soup base (there are flavours like tom yum, miso, and fish), before serving a selection of meat, veggies, and noodles from the buffet. Don’t forget to hit the sushi and hot food bar, which is all included in the price.
Seafood Hotpot Buffet
342 McCullough Street, Sunnybank
Seafood Hotpot Buffet combines an all-you-can-eat buffet experience with individual broths, which come in colourful pots for you to get cooking in. There are seven different soup bases to choose from like curry potato and butter spicy, with two-hours on the clock to gobble it down. Hit the buffet for fresh ingredients, sauces, and spices to add to the pot—with 150 different types of food to choose from, the combinations are endless.
Seoul Garden
341 Mains Road, Sunnybank
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For all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ and hot pot, pull up a chair at Seoul Garden, who bring a neon-lit ambiance and an overwhelming amount of choice for what to dine on to every experience. Served up buffet style, the hot pot here is all you can eat for 90 minutes, with an endless array of vegetables, noodles, meats, soup bases, and more. You don’t have to stick to just hot pot either—that all-you-can-eat deal includes BBQ as well as their hot bar, sushi station, and sides. Cue the tummy ache.
Sono Portside
39 Hercules Street, Hamilton
Those seeking an elevated hotpot experience should reserve their meal at Sono Portside. This elegant and high end Japanese restaurant puts hot pot on the menu for two, with three different options: Japanese Kuroge Wagyu Sukiyaki ($98 per serve), Japanese Kuorge Wagyu Shabu Shabu ($98 per serve), and Kani Tonyu Nabe ($105 per serve), where their staff demonstrate the cooking process before you shoot your shot.
Bishamon
1/500 Boundary Street, Spring Hill
You’re in the mood for hot pot, they want teppanyaki. Simple—book Bishamon and make the whole table happy. Cook up a storm with your choice of wagyu beef, pork shabu shabu, or sukiyaki with their all-you-can-eat special and let the food coma begin. There’s also a small range of sushi on the menu that’s worth trying—if you can fit it in.
Donana Mini Hot Pot
1/31 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove
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Just when you thought hot pot couldn’t get any more interactive, along comes Donana Mini Hot Pot with Brisbane’s first hot pot train. Here, you order your own individual soup pot and meat platters and wait as they get delivered by conveyor belt. Noodles, veggies, and other ingredients to add to your pot can be grabbed from the ever-moving belt in front of you, just like at a sushi train.
David’s Master Pot
Various Locations
Going out for dinner, but having to cook your own meal? Criminal. Let David’s Master Pot do all the work. Here, you can indulge in the flavours and fun of hot pot where you choose the ingredients, but it gets cooked and served up for you. From your soup base to the snacks, and even dry pots, create your ideal meal—they’ll take care of the rest.
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