Find your best hot pot restaurant match
When it comes to Chinese hot pots, there are plenty of requirements that a restaurant needs to fulfil for a truly satisfying steamboat experience. Think quality and variety of ingredients, soup bases, condiments, bonus services, convenience, and of course, price point.
Because we take our hot pots very seriously, we’ve created a comprehensive guide on some of the most popular à la carte hot pot restaurants in Singapore. Their qualities are all listed out side by side in a table format for easy comparison, so fellow hot-pot lovers, go ahead and suss out the best hot pot restaurant of your choice!
P.S. You’re welcome.
| Hai Di Lao | Beauty In The Pot | Shang Pin | Upin | Long Qing | Da Miao | Spice World | Li Xiang Lan | |
| Speciality | – Tomato Broth – Hand-pulled noodle show – Very good service eg. massage and manicure while waiting |
– Beauty collagen broths made with shark cartilage | – Pig’s Stomach & Chicken Broth | – Face- changing performance – Hand-pulled noodle show– 100% natural tomato soup |
– MSG-free broths No service charge |
– Face-changing performance – Cooked snacks to munch on while waiting for your hot pot to boil |
– No artificial flavours, MSG or flavour enhancer – Soup bases are first prepared in Sichuan China, then air-flown to Singapore – Instagrammable dishes |
– Ice-Herb Tea Soup Enhancer that consists of 72 nourishing frozen herbs to combat “heatiness” of broth |
| Soup Bases | 1) Mala 2) Tomato 3) Mushroom 4) Chicken 5) Pickled Vegetables 6) Seafood |
1) Beauty Collagen 2) Spicy Nourishing 3) Wild Pine Mushroom 4) Cooling Coconut 5) Herbal Chicken 6) Tomato Sweet Corn |
1) Mala 2) Tomato 3) Mushroom 4) Pig’s Stomach & Chicken 5) Chicken 6) Sichuan Sour Fish 7) Pork |
1) Sichuan Spicy 2) Tomato 3) Mushroom 4) Pork Bone 5) Boiled Fish 6) Herbal Chicken |
1) Mala 2) Tomato 3) Wild Mushroom 4) Lotus root & Lily bulb 5) Pork bone 6) Shark’s Fin Melon Herbal |
1) Mala 2) Tomato 3) Pork Bone 4) Mushroom |
1) Mala 2) Tomato 3) Mushroom 4) Pig Tripe & Chicken 5) Pork, chicken & duck 6) Tom-yam 7) Curry |
1) Clear Mala 2) Butter Mala 3) Tomato4) Mushroom5) Pork Bone 6) Pickled Vegetables7) Laksa |
| Special ingredients | Oysters and crabs Hand-pulled noodles Chinese delicacies like Pig Brain, Blood Cubes, Pork Trotters, Goat Eyes |
Wagyu beef Kurobuta pork |
Australian beef tongue Premium lamb shoulder meat |
American Wagyu Beef Japanese Kurobuta Pork Live Crab Chinese delicacies like Fresh Bullfrog, Fresh Ox Tongue, and Braised Pork Intestines |
Iberico Pork Collar U.S. Short rib Grain Fed Angus beef shabu shabu Innards Desserts like their famous Crispy Taro Ball |
King Crab Australia Prime Beef Boston Pork Neck Innards Cooked food like Egg Fried Rice and Minced Meat Dumplings |
One Metre-Long Mutton Slices Hello Kitty / Teddy Bear Mala Butter Premium Barbie Australian Wagyu Beef Slices Handmade Knife Cut Noodles |
Spanish Black Pork American Wagyu Beef Seafood Platter |
| Condiments | DIY sauce bar for $4 Includes sides like pickles, porridge, and fruits |
DIY sauce bar & fruits for $3.80 | DIY sauce bar & fruits for $3 | DIY sauce bar & fruits for $3 | FOC | FOC | DIY sauce bar & fruits for $4 |
DIY sauce bar & fruits for $3 |
| Single Broth Price | Mala $18 Tomato $16 Mushroom $18 Chicken $22 Pickled Vegetables $18 Seafood $16 Laksa $14 Pig’s Stomach & Chicken $24 |
Beauty Collagen $28 Spicy Nourishing $22 Wild Pine Mushroom $14 Cooling Coconut $18 Herbal Drunken Chicken $22 Tomato Sweet Corn $14 |
Mala $16 Tomato $16 Mushroom $12 Pig’s Stomach & Chicken $20 Chicken $14 Sichuan Sour Fish $20 |
Sichuan Spicy $18 Tomato $14 Mushroom $14 Pork Bone $18 Boiled Fish $12 Herbal Chicken $15 |
Every broth is $17 | Mala $22 Tomato $20 Mushroom $20 Pork Bone $20 |
Mala $19.90 Tomato $16.90 Mushroom $18.90 Pig Tripe & Chicken $19.90 Pork, chicken & duck $15.90 Tom-yam $16.90 Kitty / Teddy Bear Spicy Butter $9.90 |
Clear Mala $20 Butter Mala $22 Tomato $18 Mushroom $18 Pork Bone $20 Pickled Vegetables $22 Laksa $18 Ice Herb Tea Soup Enhancer: $30 |
| Convenience | 8 outlets Open till: 6AM |
2 outlets Open till: 3AM – 6AM |
2 outlets Open till: 12AM |
3 outlets Open till: 12AM – 3AM |
1 outlet Open till: 11PM |
1 outlet Open till: 5.30AM |
1 outlet Open till: 4AM |
1 outlet Open till: 4.30AM |
