King One Rotary Hotpot

King One is my favorite go to buffet hotpot. This specific branch along Tomas Morato is the one I recommend the most.

It's cleaner and newer than the branch in Pasay which serves badly and waiting time is unavoidable.

We ate here for lunch. One person for the unli buffet hotpot costs P599 that's the cheapest on Saturday Lunch. The downside of eating during weekdays is they don't open the rotating dish which serves sushi and other made to order specials. 

Anyhow I still enjoyed dining here cause of the SATAY SAUCE which is so freakin good and tastes good wherever you dipped it with. The sauces weren't overpowering and just works well with anything. 

You can choose different kinds of beef, mushrooms and veges to cook. They serve really quick so there's no waiting time. I enjoy shabu shabu because of the cooking part and you get to control how cooked your food will be. The drinks were okay and nothing really special about it and they don't serve desserts too.
It's just a good comfort food place.

Overall, I like this place and will keep coming back. I just wish they will improve on their services and ambiance, and menu.They can do better!

Exquisite! Astounding! Love this place the conveyor belt really does its job! Every 5 minutes you would see something new put on the conveyor belt. The cheese meatballs where the tastiest for me. The place was lit with yellow bulbs so you would really feel like you were in a 4-5 star hotel. The place was clean and the seats and tables were comfortable.

One more plus point was it seemed everything was fresh except for those that are obviously kept in the fridge. for it's price I would say it is a great place to date, celebrate or have a shabu-shabu craving satisfied.

Seafood was great too! I gave this a 4.0 rating because some of the waiter and waitresses seemed too reluctant to serve me and my girlfriend. May be they had a bad day but hey ;)

Design and arrangement-wise, King One Rotary Hotpot is not really a stunner but nothing to sneeze at either. Its charm perhaps mostly roots at the lively family atmosphere and endearingly friendly staff. At the center, the rotary belt is pretty much the main attraction in the restaurant.

Each table features a stove of hot and flavorful broth where vegetable, seafood, and meat options are dropped in and cooked. It only takes a couple of minutes before food is ready to be fished out with tongs or chopsticks.

Food tastes were okay in general, but the variety of items for the buffet hotpot was a little overwhelming. Few short courses could be ordered as part of the buffet set but in no way they could be considered destination-worthy. Quality did not pack a punch and failed to incite quite the mania fans of Chinese food.

Moving on, from the conveyor belt, the top two ones we got were the sliced marbled beef and the beef balls. I could not recall just how many plates of sliced marbled beef we shoveled down our greedy little gullets, but it was surely more than six. :) The beef was sooo good!

Vegetables like enoki mushrooms, tofu, and fresh greens and seafood like crab sticks, scallops, and oysters were also delightful. The real diet-detonator though was the utterly addictive balls oozing with cheese. Texture was soft like your pillow and taste was a cross between yellow sunshine and heaven.

Desserts were meek (sigh), so we crossed the street to the new J.Co for some donuts and coffee.

its hard to park but the guard is resourceful :) the food is like the other branch but it has round tables which makes it nicer :) enjoyed the tempura here :) much spacious than the other branch :)

We have this running joke in the family about hot pot. If you have a mother-in-law and/or granny with you, take her to eat at a hot pot place. The make-your-own-soup thing is a crowd-pleaser, especially for the elders in the family, so most grandmas are appeased. For Mother’s Day 2015, the family took my lola (grandmother) to King One Rotary Hot Pot in Tomas Morato.

I’m not going to comment much on service as we did go on a special occasion on a Sunday without a reservation. Naturally, the wait list was insanely long and the staff was slammed. There were some orders for hotpot ingredients and a la carte menu items that didn’t arrive at all, but we managed to either follow-up the order or personally retrieve the ingredients from the conveyor. No harm, no foul.

Having gone to my fair share of hot pot restaurants, what I distinctly like about King One is the sheer variety of ingredients they have on an order-all-you-can basis. Just the soup base alone is a selection of one or two flavors from ten possible choices: Plain, Satay, Century Egg Wansoy, Spicy Curry, Korean Kimchi, Hong Kong Curry, Thailand Tom Yam, Hong Kong Style Pork, Superior Beef, or Miso. Personally, I would’ve gone for Hong Kong Curry and Tom Yam, but my less-than-adventurous family members voted for Plain and Satay soups instead. The rest of the ingredients, be it seafood, veggies, or meats, were impressively fresh. A selection of ready-to-eat appetizers and drinks were also available.

The idea of hot pot used to illicit an irritated groan from me, because the price had always been on a per-ingredient basis. Most of the time, we ended up ordering the same things (fish balls, squid balls, etc.), since each ingredient would be a huge plateful already. Being able to get smaller portions and to, therefore, sample more kinds of ingredients brought excitement back into the fold.

There are just two things to remember: First, there are free short orders included. However, the policy on tempura was kind of whack. Regardless of how many members are in a table, there is a certain maximum amount of ebi tempura that can be given out. In our case, a table of five only got four pieces. You could be a table of ten and still get four pieces max. Second, fruits served at the end of the meal are not included to the order-all-you-can.

 

Verdict: For the longest time, I found myself disinterested with hot pot, but King One has changed my mind. I want to come back (of my own volition) to experiment with different soup bases, whether or not family members decide to tag along.

Good but not that great. Poor airconditioning and i saw some lil cockroach. Food is nice. Rate 6/10. Next time try to pump up the design, a/c and the loo. All over 6/10.

Dining here is a unique experience. It's the first shabu-shabu I've been to with food on plates via conveyor - kinda like rhose you see in sushi bars. Great food too.