K. K. Dollar Hot Pot Restaurant 開開豆撈坊 is located in Richmond on No.3 Road / Brownsgate in a little strip mall besides Aberdeen. Back in the day it used to be Monkey’s (a little drinking hideaway I used to frequent on the 2nd floor).

It’s amazing how times has changed and how the once dirty place cleaned up so much and is now a AYCE hot pot place.

What’s different about this AYCE hot pot joint is that they are served in individual sized pots. Each person can choose their own soup base and if you like to share (btw sharing is caring!). Plus you can sample more varieties!

Sour cabbage and fish soup – a flavorful light soup with a punch of pickled cabbage

House spicy soup – increasingly spicy as the night progresses!

Regular menu is $23.95/pp while late night is $19.95/pp and both offers a variety of meat, seafood, veggies, and dumplings.

Cuisine: Chinese, Hot Pot, AYCE
Price/Entrée: $20-$30

Out of 5… (1: Don’t bother —> 5: Excellent)
Food: 3.0
Service: 2.5
Ambiance: 2.5
Overall: 3.0

Once everything is set, head over to the buffet bar to mix your own dip sauce.

Minced garlic, cilantro, chives, jalapenos, chilli oil, soy sauce, sesame paste etc. are readily available!

Add an egg with your sauce. Beauty of it all is that you can always come back for seconds and thirds…

When the food finally arrived, everything looked pretty fresh and clean… nothing looked below par and veggies weren’t burnt.

Quality for an AYCE place was definitely better than I expected.

Fish slices looked and tasted pretty elastic and not mushy!

Even the typical anorexic oysters were plumped and juicy (remember to scoop out the meat and do not submerge the whole thing shell on into the soup! We saw someone do that – not cool).

Hokkigai were also available. We found it slightly tough tho.

Mushrooms are multiple varieties.

Minced Shrimp Paste

Minced Dace Fish Paste

I personally love eating some veggies before my soup based gets too oily from all the meat contamination; but my friends, even Dave makes fun of me for being too ”banana” ex. eating salad as an appie…

My best choice would be fish slices (absolutely adore), lots of veggies, oysters and few fatty beef slices. Bewilders me how the boys can eat beef slices like they are noodles… some natural born talent I will never acquire…

Order some chrysanthemum tea to take away the “hot air” from too much spicy food! At the end of it all, we were quite thirsty. I suspect there’s MSG in the broth.

• AYCE
• Individual Hot Pot
• Variety Soup Base
• Late Night
• Private Rooms available
• Debit and Visa
• Friendly Service

K. K. Dollar Hot Pot Restaurant

開開豆撈坊
4200 No 3 Road Richmond, BC V6X2C4
(604) 279-5588

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