After a very busy month, finally got some time to myself! And what better way to celebrate than with food!!! We found this place called O' Young's Rock Pot that has only been open for a couple months. The guai lo wanted something soupy and spicy, so this is perfect! They have different pots with fixed ingredients as well as a "make your own pot" option. The waiter was very friendly and introduced us to the menu, and he said that the "make your own pot" is a little larger and can be shared with 2 people, so we decided to do that. You can either pick one kind of meat + 5 sides or if you are a vegetarian, you can pick 8 or 9 sides. The guai lo was in the mood for duck, so we picked duck (I really wanted catfish....), and we picked more than 5 sides (you will have to pay extra obviously). We picked gluten flour, enoki mushroom, napa cabbage, frozen tofu, taro, daikon, cuttlefish ball and noodle. The ingredients I picked for our pot usually do not have a strong taste by themselves, but absorbed the soup taste, and that makes them so great for pots! Next, you pick the kind of spice and spice level. They have fragrant spicy versus numb spicy (they also have not spicy for people who can't eat spicy). We picked fragrant spicy. We were gonna pick medium spicy, but the waiter said we should try the mild first in case it's too spicy, so we took the advice. The mild spicy was spicier than other places, but we could have definitely handled medium! Anyways. it was pretty good. The pot was pipping hot (very important), and not too salty, but flavorful, and the ingredients all taste very good. This place is more like a saucy stew dish, so if you are actually looking for soup (might want to go to boiling point), then this might not be the place to go. I also think it is slightly on the pricier side than other places I have been, but overall a satisfying dining experience.
