Kaohsiung Zuoying Old Shantou Original Hotpot (Kaohsiung Boai Store)

#2月好去处2025 Address: No. 315, Boai 3rd Road, Zuoying District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 813 Atmosphere/Facilities: No parking lot, toilet, self-service condiments, spacious environment Features: Self-service food tray, a la carte meat, free winter melon tea, credit card accepted Price per person: NT$650 Rating: I just wanted to have a midnight snack after watching the concert, so I found a hot pot restaurant closest to the high-speed rail. Open until 12:30. The store is very spacious, but there are only a few tables because it is past 10 o'clock. But halfway through our meal it was almost full. It should be the benefit of the concert. The soup base is a little different from the usual Shantou hotpot soup. The taste of shacha and flat fish is very light, and you can taste a little bit of bonito flakes in the soup base. It has a refreshing taste. There is shacha sauce in the seasoning area and you can adjust the taste yourself. The price of 150 for the pot base is quite good. Hand-cut Marinated Beef (Small) (145g) 390 Yuan The fat is evenly distributed and the meat is fresh. Just blanch it for a few seconds and you can eat it. The taste is good and the meat is tender. The prices are reasonable for dining in. Hand-cut beef fillet (165g) 370 yuan The price of the meat is not expensive, and the beef fillet tastes very thick. It needs to be cooked a little longer. The meat is fresh but unfortunately, maybe due to storage problems, this plate of beef fillet absorbed some blood. At the end of the meal, there was a bit of bloody smell that affected the overall taste. At first I thought it was not cooked thoroughly, but even if the beef is not fully cooked, it will not have this taste. The meat that was cooked for 15 minutes later still had a bloody smell, but the meat tasted fresh. Only then did I think that it was caused by the absorption of blood. The unit price of vegetable plates and processed meats is much lower than the cost-effectiveness of meats. A plate of chrysanthemum and cabbage costs 80 yuan, fish dumplings costs 120 yuan, and three-meat dumplings costs 160 yuan. The business sells the whole box at a higher price. Take San Kee fish dumplings and shrimp dumplings as an example. The price of each box for home delivery is about NT$70-80, depending on the channel. The dishes are cleaned and packaged very cleanly, without any defective leaves. The portion size is a bit small. Overall, the taste is OK, which is OK for a late-night snack. Later, when the restaurant was almost full, the replenishment of the self-service condiment area and winter melon tea was obviously slow. I don't know if it was because they were about to close or because there weren't usually so many tables coming at once.