Rolling Pot (Chinese hot pot)

Patrons are steamed. Dinner is boiled. Some people can't take it for too long. A man in a T-shirt retreats every 10 minutes or so from the mess-hall-cum-sauna that is the Rolling Pot into the icy air of the Pacific Mall parking lot.

The fogged windows contain long banks of tables. Built-in elements heat dozens of pots of broth bubbling in unison to create the steam bath atmosphere - and infinite variations of soup.

The appetite is the only limit to the all-you-can-eat piles of bits to be boiled - meat, fish, dumplings, vegetables, noodles. Retrieve the chunks and slather on sauce. Gobble it before it slides off, if you can.

There's the catch. When it comes to food, lubrication leads to frustration. Flavours trickle away, get watered down with so much moisture.

All the variety and play of Korean BBQ, without the sticky, spicy, fried joy.

$13.99-$15.99/adult

Rolling Pot
7077 Kennedy Rd. (Pacific Mall)
Unit 111
Markham, ON
L3R 0N8
905-946-0888
www.rollingpot.com