Mengya: I don’t know what to pick next?
Tom: I will pick one for you!
Mike: …
We discovered this hot pot place in an attempt to try out a Mongolian restaurant in Newcastle a few weeks ago. It’s indeed a Mongolian restaurant but with a “secret” function on the second floor, which was advertised in Chinese outside the door – “Hot pot buffet, £13.5 per person for two hours”. I was wondering why it’s only written in Chinese, but then the manager at the entrance told us to take care of our friend James and teach him how to use hot pot, just for safety purpose. So I guess there must be some strict regulations for customers to cook food for themselves, ie. a hot pot dinner. That reminds me a sense in Lost in Translation, when the guy complained about the Japanese style BBQ restaurant “what kind of restaurant that you need to cook for yourself”.
Anyway, it’s still a good place to go if you 1) are living near Newcastle, 2) know what’s a hot pot and like it, or 3) don’t know what I was talking about it sounds fun and mysterious and want to try it out. The name is call…wait, I can’t remember. But just ask somebody on the street where is the Mongolian restaurant and they might point you out. It’s somewhere under a bridge, and near a bar called “Tokyo”.
Some more photos here.
Graduation later on, after a few hours sleep!
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It’s above the restaurant called ‘Kubli Khan’ on The Side. It’s near the bar called ‘Hoko-10′ (NOT Tokyo – that’s on the other side of town).
I recommend it to anyone! Hotpot is the best! REAL Chinese food ^-^