Chongqing Kitchen

I stopped by here because I lived in Chongqing for a year teaching english, this place really brought back memories and was truly authentic Chongqing/Sichuan cuisine.I'd gladly come back next time I'm in town!

Great food planning on another trip in with my friends this time.

Average hotpot joint, however the forced dipping sauce charge ($5 per person, regardless if you have any) left a bad experience. When I queried the sauce charge, the gentleman used the analogy of how tea at Chinese restaurants also charge on a per head basis, but my response is: not if you don’t order tea in the first place… He also kindly explained that dipping sauces COMPLETES the hotpot experience, which almost made me question my 20+ years of hotpot experience across Asia, Europe and Oceania. Regrettably, this is the first time I been to an establishment that forces you to pay for something you explicitly decline to have (also first to offer chicken powder at its dipping station/trolley). If you must make sauces mandatory for whatever reason, I’d recommend building it into the cost of the soup bases, rather than have it as a separate option on the menu. If you feel like you have to ‘man’ your dipping sauce trolley, then you have the wrong attitude to customer service sir- treating all your diners as potential dipping sauce thieves

Authentic Chongqing hotpot. Taste so good. Best hotpot restaurant in tall. Quite a few customers are pretty girls that Saturday night. A bit pricey but worth it.

Really good. We’ve had hot pot before, in China, Mongolia and the US, and this compares favorably. The electronic ordering system was a little confusing at first, but we sorted it out. Warning: Hot means hot in this place, and so does medium. :)

Absolutely enjoyed our time here! The food was absolutely delicious and they were so accommodating after we walked out of the dumpling company.Their condiments were so good and had a wide range of options! I would like to also say the staff there were incredibly friendly and welcoming! Okay hanks for such a great experience! Will definitely go there again!

A disappointing experience because of the forced sauce charge ($5 per person). We queried with the person that took our order and told the person that we do not need/eat sauce. In response, we were told different reasons for the forced sauce charge. The first was that the sauce “makes the hotpot experience better”and the second was that it is a charge (like a charge per head for tea) at Chinese restaurants, regardless of whether you have it or not. I do not agree with both of these reasons. The soup base at hotpot restaurants is already very flavorful so no sauce is required. We always respectfully tell the restaurant from the outset that we do not eat sauce and ask that the restaurant remove this charge as it is not right to ask a customer to pay for something which they do not plan to consume, and rightfully, this cost has always been removed, This, as I mentioned above, is the same for tea at Chinese restaurants. However, this request was refused by the restaurant. Since it was a forced cost, we were forced to have something from the sauce section. I do not eat sauce so I took one tiny scoop of the spring onions. Overall, the food was ok and nothing to write home about but the forced sauce charge and flawed reasoning from the restaurant really ruined the experience for us.

So good. I’d like to say this is the best hot pot in Wellington. A little bit expensive. But never mind. The taste alway in the front. Pretty good customer service as well. Definitely will be back.

It’s okay. Honestly a little bit overpriced we only ordered only a little and it came to $180. Just a serving of beef and pork, 2 soup base, pig ear, beef omasun, regular wonton, potato noodle, cabbage, crab meat and squid tentacle. This may sound like a lot but when you actually order you’ll realise it’s nothing especially when you always have hot pot. Soup base a bit bland. I’ll come back again to give it another shot since I’ve been recommended to try something else and to bring more people. p.s this was 4 of us.