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I'm not a hotpot person but a friend said die die must try. Not easy to get a table apparently. First of all, beautiful interiors. Secondly, (mostly) impressive service that made us feel like royalty (except one kitchen dude who was quite abrasive). I appreciate this place has some unique hotpot ingredients. Pictured are white water snowflake, sesame tang yuan, youtiao and fish dumplings, among many things we ordered. Yes they have several sweet ingredients for the hotpot!
I'm not a hotpot person but a friend said die die must try. Not easy to get a table apparently. First of all, beautiful interiors. Secondly, (mostly) impressive service that made us feel like royalty (except one kitchen dude who was quite abrasive). I actually ate all these beef myself as my companions don't take beef. They're good, but at this price they should lah.
I'm not a hotpot person but a friend said die die must try. Not easy to get a table apparently. First of all, beautiful interiors. Secondly, (mostly) impressive service that made us feel like royalty (except one kitchen dude who was quite abrasive). The signature tofu soup was delicious, while the other we just ordered for variety. The former came with a small portion of the prized tofu, which was interesting. Diners also get unlimited pig blood and beancurd skin.
Some people say “if you been to Taipei but not tried Wu Lao Guo, you haven’t been there” 有點誇張
Elixir Health Pot, better known as “Wu Lao Guo” 無老鍋 is considered one of the best and the most popular steamboat restaurants in Taipei.
The name “Wu Lao Guo” literally translates to “never old pot”, and is built on the philosophy of providing diners with hotpots brimming with health and beauty properties.
The good news is that Wu Lao Guo offers a twin “ying-yang” hot pot which means that you can try two of their most popular broths.
The two signature broths are the Layered Tofu (NT$129 per person, SGD5.90) cooked with chicken bone and large pork bone, simmered with more than a dozen Chinese spices and herbs; the other is the Spicy Wulao (NT139 per person, SGD6.30) with Chinese spices cooked for eight hours then added with fresh chicken broth.
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麵包豆腐白汤鍋 Layered Tofu Hotpot
無老辣香鍋 Spicy Wulao Hotpot
》NT$149 per pax + NT$180 per table (twin-side hotpot)
Like Haidilao and Beauty in a pot here, your chances of getting a walk-in table at Elixer are close to zero.
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There’s only two types of broth, Mala and Soy. And trust me you wanna get both. Elixir prides itself on making soul comforting food. So you get none of that gut wrenching heat that mala is commonly associated with but a broth that’s super drinkable and addictive. The pork and chicken mala base came with potpourri of star anise, bay leaves, licorice, cayenne pepper, white sesame and wolfberry amongst others. The Tofu soup was invigorating thanks to a hodgepodge of fresh ginseng, nutmeg, jujube, burdock, pearl barley, oat, dangshen root, lotus seed, tsaoko. And while herbal soups are sometimes lost on me, this was sublime on a winter’s night, especially with the endless refill of complementary fried beancurd and pigs blood.
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Service is impeccable here. At the end of every fulfilled requests, the waitresses bowed a full 90 degrees and at the end they told us if we would like to take the rest of the food away, they’d refill the broth with the original ingredients at no additional cost.
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Amazing. #gastrologyintaipei
