The Pot's

A blustery, cold night made this the perfect backdrop for a night of hot pot. And so our ragtag gang (three people is a gang, right?) headed over to The Pot's in the Outer Sunset, where we indulged in sweet, sweet, all-you-can-eat. And eat we did.

Romina sipping tea while Mark marks off what we want from a checklist (not pictured, of course).

Some condiments while we wait.

We had the satay soup base. Not too spicy, and overall a really good choice.

Food's here! The fish and shrimp balls dive in first. Not shown was the prime rib, lamb, fish, imitation crab, shrimp, tofu... you name it, we ate it. At some point there were veggies there, too. I think.

Yes, there were veggies. See those green onions? Those count, right? Just kidding! Bok choy, yams and winter melon, too. (We are good kids who eat our vegetables.)

Alright, at this point I stopped taking pictures, cuz I was hungry.

Overall, I was pretty impressed at the selection that this place had. They had a pretty good selection of ingredients, including some things that I'd never tried before (shrimp balls with some kind of meat inside). The ingredients were pretty fresh, though since it's DIY, we may have killed some things by leaving it in the pot too long. The shrimp dumplings were very good, and so were the beef and lamb. Weird to pick on their tofu, but I actually didn't like their tofu. Oh well.

Being a good Chinese kid, I keep telling myself that this could have been done at home, better and for cheaper, too. But this really wasn't bad at all. With tax and tip, $28 a person.

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The Pot's
2652 Judah St
San Francisco, CA 94122

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P.S. We went to Tuttimelon afterward to get some frozen yogurt, but on our way back saw this lying on the floor:

We think a piggy bank committed suicide by jumping off of the building above. The police have notified and are investigating the situation, and caution tape has been drawn around to cordon off the area.