刘一手火锅 Chongqing Liuyishou Hot
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2017 Nov 13
We were on our way to 168 Sushi on Merivale but it is closed for a week for renovations. So, we headed across the street to the Chinese hot pot place, without any expectations.

We were pleasantly surprised. It took a few minutes to figure out the menu but it's pretty simple: choose a soup base or two at no extra cost (a divider in the pot separates the flavours), choose any meat, vegetables or sizes. Strangely, it is $2.50 per person to get the three all you can eat appies (seaweed salad, edamame beans, peanuts) and condiments or else, you only get soy sauce.

We ordered the pork ribs soup and spicy soup combo, the beef/pork/lamb platter, the Chinese cabbage/spinach/watercress greens and other Chinese green platter, soft tofu, fish balls, hand made noodles and a bowl of rice (cos we're Cantonese and we need rice with everything).

The food were all great quality and very well presented. The restaurant is nicely decorated. The plates and bowls have the corporate logos on them. The all you can eat sauce table has every Chinese condiment you can think of. The waitress also came back to offer plastic bags so our coats would not smell like food too much.

In sum, while this is a chain, it is a quality addition to the Ottawa Chinese restaurant scene.