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hello hello hello i'm janice and i hope
you're all doing well
we are starting this video off in the
car park
because this is where we are going to
for our dinner tonight you might be able
to tell by the title of the video
where we're going we are gonna go hot
pot at this place that i've actually
never been to i've seen photos i've seen
videos
my friends have been here many times i
actually have never been and i'm really
excited to try this place today
with my entire family so
we're actually at the car park of
westfield
chatswood and we're going to go up to
wait let me check which level okay we're
going to go up to level
six i am meeting the rest of the fam at
the restaurant
uh we booked for seven o'clock it's
currently 702
um but i think that i'm actually the
first one here
because they're always late
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okay we have just arrived at our hot pot
place
it's a place called habilao which in
chinese it i think it translates
directly as
scooping from the ocean escooping from
the bottom of the ocean
and we're gonna have a series of
different hot pot plates tonight
and um it's also my mom's birthday well
like it was a couple days ago and we've
got
birthday signs and i think they have
like they carry out like a massive
uh fluorescent neon sign out as well
later i don't know that's what my friend
told me
anyway they they have these like ipads
that we order off
and then there's also a source bar that
we get our sources so i think what we'll
do is
do you want to get sources or autofocus
those are closed
oh the source bar is closed so they've
given us like
this source menu that we would choose
from
so okay that's okay we're just gonna
order like the soup base
and the ingredients and whatnot from
this package
all right we have just put in our orders
for the hot pot i've ordered a whole
range
of uh different meats we've got seafood
we've got a range of different balls
hey we didn't get veggies didn't we okay
we should get veggies as well
so when i go hot pot sometimes i get
like really cooling drinks like a
watermelon drink
or sometimes they get like you know
their palm juice or the chokzai malcolm
but
i just got a cowpist today this is like
a fizzy
sweet it's kind of like a yogurt fizzy
drink
okay they've just given us some
appetizers
it's pumpkin with dates it's warm
and it's sweet so i've got an apron
because they offered it
it's just a way to not you know get soup
splashes
on my shirt okay so the first thing that
i'm gonna eat
which is kind of weird for hot pot but i
love this it's fried
mom cow and then you dip it in condensed
milk
and it's just the best combo of crispy
on the outside
pillowy fluffy soft on the inside and
then sweets
as well
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something about bread and sweetness
just makes it taste so good okay now we
get right into the meats
so in terms of breast today we got a
chicken broth and we also got a tomato
broth
because i love tomatoes and i've just
got my wagyu beef
i'm just gonna have it as is and then
i'm gonna mix my sauce together
and take open that the tomato flavor is
very prominent
okay and in terms of sauces so they
don't have the self-serve
sauce bar today but we did order the soy
sauce the sesame paste
and also the sesame oil with the the
garlic on the inside as well and what
i'm going to do is i'm just going to
take a bit
from each of the three bowls mix it
together and then make that my own sauce
all right so let's start with the the
balls
so we've got the shrimp paste which like
they scoop it out and then put it in the
soup
and then it just forms into like a
little tiny shrimp ball
and we've also got fish balls we've also
got
this one that i'm not too sure what it
is look at me
okay it's fish ball with the fish and
then we have the
diesel which is the sausage with melted
cheese on the inside you've got to be
really careful when you eat this one
because
it doesn't smell oh because
sometimes what i was going to say is
that when you bite into it the cheese
just
completely oozes out but my brother just
told me that it's pretty safe
all right i am going to start with the
fish ball
i'm going to dip it in the sauce where i
just took one part of everything
and uh go from there
the fishbowl isn't very very springy but
it is very fresh and
there's no like fishy taste to it at all
what i'm really excited to try
is the shrimp paste that they've scooped
up
that is delicious okay now we have
the dizzy charm with the cheese inside
i'll just have one
because i do like it but i shouldn't
have too many
is it because we didn't cook it for long
enough bro
that's why there's no we've been in
there for ages
and then we have the fish ball with the
fish row
on the inside so inside once you bite
into it there's a whole bunch of fish
row
it's got that like popping sensation to
it in terms of my favorite
meatballs for hot pot it's always the
beef
and the fish i do like the shrimp paste
one as well
but that's less like a meatball but more
like
shrimp paste so my mom just made me a
strand of noodles
with tomato sauce it's got so much
tomato just like
trapped in the in this strand of noodles
and i love tomatoes
so i'm very very excited
oh out there what do you guys think
about hong kong
i love the i love the tomato one because
it's just so strong
in the tomato flavor so this
is like a it's like a vermicelli
bow and i've also got a squid as well
the squid is very fresh it's a little
bit chewy like how you would expect
squid to be there's still that freshness
of the
like the seafoody flavor to it but it
mostly absorbs the flavor of the broth
so it's like a combination of chicken
broth
with the flavor of squid
okay so this is just the fish skin
you just put it in the soup really
quickly and then eat it
oh you don't have to put in the soup at
all so because it's my mom's birthday
today and i told them in advance
um they've given my mom a bowl of
noodles that's called acharyan sal mean
it's like
long life noodles it looks very pretty
but uh we'll see what it tastes like
i'll let her taste it
and then i'll reiterate to you whether
she likes it or not
i'm gonna try my mom's noodles look at
how
thick these noodles are it's like it's
like the
noodles that i had in one of my episodes
that i did at like a siam food store
it's very very chewy the soup piece is a
little bit
what's yours is a medicinal on there
so for our second round of ordering
we've got a bunch of veggies
we've got seaweed and we've also got
radish
i love getting radish when i go hot pot
because it just soaks up
the flavor of the broth and when you eat
it it's like eating
a vegetable that just tastes exactly
like
you know either the tomato flavor or the
chicken flavor all right next up
i mean we've had a lot but next up we're
gonna have the ox tongue
beef tongue is something that i always
get
when i go hotpot it sounds weird if
you've never tried it before i
urge you to try because i think it's
delicious it doesn't have to be in the
soup for long
like if it's boiling i reckon 15 to 20
seconds is enough
i've got two because uh one is never
enough
it's so boring in terms of like the pork
it's always nice to have a bit of
fatty pork belly in your hot pot it does
make the entire
sort of soup get really oily but
they do come here like the waiters and
the waitresses do come here
and scrape off the top of the soup and
so it always remains quite clear
my favorite is the tomato broth the
tomato broth
is amazing the vegetable that i
typically go for
is which is i think it's called chinese
cabbage
because vegetables that soak up the
flavors of the broth is like
my favorite in terms of pump up i've
actually made a video on how to
do your own hot pot at home so if you're
interested just check it out
here or here i don't know where the
angles work so my dad also pointed out
that the reason why there's no steam
coming out of the hot pot is because
there are vents on the side
that suck the steam away before it rises
to the top
it's something that i didn't even notice
until we mentioned it but i guess that's
why there's nothing fogging up
the lenses right now which i appreciate
a lot okay um my parents ordered the
plum
juice which i actually don't really like
but it's quite refreshing actually it's
like a more sour ribena
okay so my brother got a heidi lau beer
and then he went for seconds which got
me really curious because i really want
to know what it tastes like
so um i'm gonna finish the rest of this
out
and uh it just tastes like normal beer
it's lager beer with hot pot is always
nice because hot pot is very hot
and beer just like cools everything down
okay this is like the is it tofu i don't
even know but this is the thing that
that you just need to put in the soup
for a very short period of time
and then eat it straight away
i let it go in for way too long so it
was already a little bit too shocking
so on the menu you can actually order
for someone to come
and do like the dancing noodle and so we
have that coming very
oh actually it's happening right now
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okay now we have the dumplings so the
inside
is a pork and prawn mix i'm just going
to one biter
i put the top up to show you what's on
the inside
so the outside is quite thick and to be
honest i can't really taste it
the flavors on the inside um
it tastes more like just the tomato
brush
i find the wrapper to be a little bit
too thick for my liking actually
i think i'm kind of on the last bits of
food
so you've seen me have the noodles
you've seen me have
a whole bunch of meats a whole bunch of
balls
but what we're ending with now is the
radish
which has been in the chicken broth and
it's soaked up the flavors of the
chicken broth
and we're also tasting the noodle that
they made
as they were dancing previously and then
uh
and then i think that's pretty much it
all right so first up we have the radish
it's um slightly translucent just
glistening in the lights
the radish is so good look at this it's
like
translucent and this is
if there's any lemon i'm just so worried
about it slipping and then splashing all
the
soup okay so this is the dancing noodle
it's not bad but i actually prefer the
original noodles that i had it was more
like it had more bites to it
this one was like it's fun it's fun to
see them make it
but if i had to just choose it based on
what i liked more
i liked the other noodles that we had
so this is the seaweed i never order
seaweed when i go hot pot
but my dad wanted to eat it so that's
why we haven't
i don't think this is something that you
definitely need to order
i was wondering what was actually in the
bag of the um
of the present that they gave my mom
so it's like you can use it to like
massage your back and stuff
oh
okay so we have our dessert
they said it's a grass jelly but it
doesn't look like you know your typical
brass jelly it's a lot lighter in color
than that
i think there's like some sort of dates
there's watermelon in it as well
oh this is really nice this is really
refreshing you can taste a bit of the
watermelon
it's very cooling we should get more
than one and
that is it for this video thank you for
joining me on my hotpot dinner tonight
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you just poured boiling water on my
finger what do you think
so as we were walking out they handed us
a bag of these
snacks this is what it looks like
you should have eaten it with your beer
i did oh did you
oh i didn't have any
you