Zhangliang

Food is really good and super fresh, even when I visit near closing time. Broth is very well seasoned. Price is super affordable, make sure you don’t take too much toppings as they give you a big portion of broth too.

Recommend: soba noodle and bone broth.

Super cool concept. Build your own hotpot. Pick your toppings, noodles, and broth. They’ll weigh your toppings and that’s how you get charged. I love their Szechuan spice. It’s easy for me to over do it on the toppings though lol. I think my bowl has been like $25 both times I came here.

I always think this store will be close soon coz seems like not many people eating here but I am wrong, their food is actually pretty good and lots of choice. And they have so many online orders. Well, I guess their surviving prove their food is good. I got a medium spicy for myself and got tomato soup for my kid. Fast and taste good

So we're all familiar with typical hotpot: where you choose your ingredients and broth, get the cooking done right at the table, and then dip it in your own creation of sauce to enjoy. Of course, as a hotpot lover, I've had my fair share of hotpot and can go for it whenever..when it's cold, hot, or cloudy with a chance of meatballs without a doubt, and getting introduced to malatang is like a nice alternative concept to hotpot.
So upon entering, you are greeted with a wall of different ingredients. There are bowls and tongs for you to start choosing your proteins, veggies, and carbs. But when you've been spoiled with all-you-can-eat hotpot options for a while, you'll need to start clearing that mentality a little and try refraining yourself from that mindset, cause we know hunger will cause ones eyes to grow bigger than the stomach (especially when you gotta pay for your choices by weight). I think taking a step back and giving the vast selection of ingredients offer a look first, before picking and choosing, is the way to go.
After finalizing your selection, bring it up to the counter to get it weighted (it's currently $12.99/lb and spicy dry pot option at $14.99/lb). I went for the soup option, which you get your choice of soup base, and I selected the original medium spicy. After payment, your bowl is brought back into the kitchen where they cook it up for you. There's also a small sauce station to make your own dipping sauce while waiting.
Food came out fairly quick and was brought out in a big bowl (not pot), but with half the work already done, what's left is to dig in.
So flavor of the original bone broth was okay, the spice level was right on, and well, you can't complain about your own choices of ingredients here, so it definitely had to be good.
Besides the malatang, I got some fried buns on the side (shaobing) and they were a nice touch to the meal. Also complimentary white rice is available, so just ask.
Eventhough, this concept is different from the hotpot we're used to, I definitely enjoyed it, especially when you wanna take a break from hotpot steam clinging onto you and splashes from boiling soup once in a while, this is a great alternative to try.
The restaurant is nice and clean, with good amount of seating, and nice service.
Only small downside is I wish they can translate some menu items they have into English for non-Chinese speakers like myself, but besides that, I hope for more malatang places to be open so the interesting concept can be recognized.

You can pick whatever you want from the shelf and you pay by weight.
I had Thai soup base which I believe they added to much MSG.

Overall it’s good. Probably not healthy but I don’t come here for healthy food. I come here for guilty pleasure.

Really tasty hot pot experience. The concept is a bit unique. You select any ingredients from the open food bar. They weigh it and charge you. You pick your hot pot soup base and they cook it for you. We pick the medium and very spicy soup base and we love it. The broth is thick and yummy. The advantage of this place is you can choose what you want to eat in your personal bowl of hot pot. Want more lamb, more shrimp, go all out with it. We spent $45 including tips for 2 huge bowls of hot pot.

My friend wanted to try this new spot and we decided to give it a try. For those who are new customers like us, it is just like a buffet hot pot. You go pick ingredients you want and put in a bowl. Then you go to cashier and they will weight it and you pay about $10/lb. They will ask what kinds of soup base you want to cook with your ingredients. They have spicy soup (about 3 levels), mushroom soup and tomato soup. The soup is good and goes well with fresh ingredients. The only problem is lots of ingredients in Chinese, even description of soup base. The employee is barely talking English. We were having hard time to understand what the employee said but she was trying very hard to communicate with us. I do recommend they should have dual languages, so non-Chinese customers like us can understand better.

The food at this place is exceptional! Very tasty, well prepared and the best thing is you can chose among many veggie or meat options, basically you build a combination of yourself! All the food material are very fresh, you can tell that by the time you pick them up from the freezer; the soup they use beats all the places I have ever been to, it is excellent tasty real beef broth, but not salty at all or like added flavor in so many other places. I always drink it all! So good! The people there are super nice too and always takes care to offer the best quality! Highly recommend this place.