I have been wanting to try the Taiwanese-style shacha hotpot from Feima Stone Hotpot for the longest time ever:D We got the large hotpot ($21.90 for 5 pax) which came with 1 choice of meat. We topped it up with a Meat Lover Tray ($20) which included 3 portions of meat and ordered a variety of hotpot ingredients ranging from $3 - $9 per plate.

This hotpot is quite unlike other hotpots as the broth is prepared right before you on the table. The server first fry some onions, carrots, cuttlefish and meat with shacha sauce (aka 沙茶酱, which is an aromatic sauce made from oil, garlic, shallots, chilli, brill fish and dried shrimp) in the pot to extract the flavours, before adding broth to form the soup base. The shacha sauce is quite fragrant and the soup gets sweeter and more flavourful as more ingredients are added.

For meat, we chose pork belly, pork collar and chicken thigh, and they are very tender and delicious. There are also many hotpot ingredients to choose from and my favourites include Pocket with Fish Roe (福袋), Prawn Paste, Stuffed Mini Tofu Puff and the tofu that looks like a Mahjong tile. Hotpot aside, the other star of the show would have to be the Braised Pork Rice 卤肉饭 ($2.50) - it’s a perfect match with the shacha hotpot and it’s so good🤤

We ended dinner with complimentary ice cream kiaped from a vending machine - talk about completing the whole Taiwan experience👏🏻! In the end, the bill totalled to about $120 for 5 pax, which was mindblowingly affordable given the quality and how stuffed we were by the end of the meal. Glad to finally check this off my wish list!