Name: All You Can Eat HOTPOT Buffet Tour of New York PART 1
Uploaded: 2018-03-03T01:36:21.000Z
Duration: 25 min 36 s
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Awhile ago I did a video where I went and tried out and reviewed a lot of all you can eat hot pot restaurants in San Francisco

And after that video came out a lot of you guys messaged me asking me to do the same thing for

New York City, so I thought go around New York City, and eat at a lot of all-you-can-eat hot pot buffets

So we're going to go to a lot of the all-you-can-eat hot pot places in the city

and we're going to go try them out and like before we're going to review them based on five things: meat quality,

quantity of ingredients, the sauce bar, the broth and the service and we'll rank each of these five

criterias from one to five, five of course being the best, and because there are so many all-you-can-eat

hot pot places in the city, I don't think one video is going to cover it

So we're going to make it a series. All right guys. Let's go hot potting.

Our first stop is 99 Favors out here in Flushing.

I'm starving. I had a reservation at 8:00. It's 8:16, and there's still a bunch of people ahead of me

I'm about to munch on this bamboo. I mean pandas do it right?

This is actually bigger upstairs than it is downstairs

Thank you. Wow, look at how big that table is

Here, the hot pot is $22.99 you get a dollar off if you are a VIP

I don't know what it takes to be a VIP, but a dollar seems a little low

If you want to get Korean barbecue it's $25.99 you want to get them together is $30.99

And here you can either get a big family-style pot and have three flavors three broth

or you can get a big pot with two broth or you can get your own mini little pot

Here you don't mark anything on a slip of paper you just

Tell your server what you want and she'll put it into the iPad

Now that I pretty much ordered everything on the menu let's check out the sauce situation

This sauce bar it's actually really complete

It has all my favorites: the chive sauce, sesame sauce, Chinese barbecue sauce and hot oil

It's soup base testing time and I'm going to start off with the tomato

It tastes like ketchup. I was really anticipating that because in San Francisco

I had a two middle soup base that tasted really good

But this one really just kind of tastes like ketchup

so I'm going to take a little bit of meat with my broth

The pork bone broth has a lot of porky and herby flavor to it

Herbal Broth. This is actually really good

It's very herbal-ly there's definitely some Chinese medicine in here. I fare it's really good. Finally the spicy broth

It's really spicy. Wow this broth as you can see has a lot of stuff in there, and it does taste pretty good

This is Mike my server here. He's dissecting the shrimp

You must have got an A in science class; all my shrimp has been beheaded and he's deveining the shrimp right now

That's some great tableside service. I of course opted for both the hot pot and barbecue

I can never resist that and this is my favorite fatty beef brisket

And they mixed in some kind of spicy sauce with it as well. Usually I like these with a little bit of salt and vinegar

the brisket's nice ratio of lean and fatty meat

It's not sliced as thin as I would typically like but the quality of this meat is undeniable

beautiful char on this brisket and the fat just melts. On this side

whenever I see duck on a BBQ you gotta get it. Duck is marvelous barbecue and look at all that beautiful duck fat

Mmm. I love barbecue duck and my conch is ready. I'm really excited. I love conch so much

I love conch because of its crunch. Okay, that's stupid. I'm sorry I'm sorry.

It's so good; not too much seasoning on that. Short Ribs

It's not the most tender short rib you'll ever have, but hey, it's an all-you-can-eat buffet; it's flavorful enough

Alright guys I feel really bad right now because during this meal time I've been neglecting

Someone and I feel really bad because well, I love that individual and for it to feel neglected by me I feel horrible

I need to make up to it. So let's pay the hot pot some attention like I said really delicious broth

Let's go ahead and add some lamb and add some beef. About ten seconds in and it's done. Let's try the meat

You are able to tell that it's all you can eat hot pot buffet meat

I mean, it's not the most tender beef or lamb

But the meat is sliced really thin and its able to soak up a lot of the soup

And that's soup really adds a lot of heat to the meat. My favorite thing to do is go tell the fried dough

That's a beautiful bite. This is the cow tongue. A lot of people might not like this.

But I love it. It's really lean, really delicious meat. Dip that in my sesame oil and salt

Guys for the first time in a hot pot buffet

I'm feeling a little bit overwhelmed because look at this I have a stack of BBQ meat here

I have the plate of barbecue meat I'm working on here. I have my hot pot meat here

I have more barbecue meat here, and I got these delicious sea food items sitting on the grill

I really don't even know what to do with myself right now. I don't know what they eat. I'm feeling a little flustered

I feel like if I don't need these vegetables something bad's gonna happen. A couple of dessert soups and this one looks like uh

a little bit of icy rice soup with  peanuts and some sort of red jelly

post hot pot desert drink thingy. What I thought was red jelly is actually watermelon

refreshing. And my tongue was kind of burning because of all the spice and heat and this thing just perfectly cooled everything down

This looks like milk tea with some grass jelly in here

And it tastes like milk tea with some grass jelly. Both desserts really refreshing especially after spicy, hot pot. Oh, I just had a thought

When you come here, you don't need to order any drinks, you don't. Ask for a glass of water

Don't ask for an empty cup because that's a little suspicious and fill it up with a milk tea and jelly

This is a perfect drink with your hot pot. Now I feel kind of stupid. Alright

Let's talk about this place. 99 Favors for those of you

who don't know is probably the most recognizable name in all-you-can-eat hot pot in New York City

I believe they have four locations already

I think two in Manhattan, one of Brooklyn and one in Queens

And it's funny the reason they called this

96 Flavors as you saw on the front that's because every time they register a company

So there's just kind of counting down from 99 and if ever if you sound to one favor

They would have already dominated the world. Let's talk about the sauce bar. They have all the sauces

I really love, so solid 4.5. When it comes to variety although the ingredients were presented in a beautiful looking menu with pictures

They don't offer as many items as you would think for example no potatoes,

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