All you can eat hotpot at Hotpot City, Bankstown

Winter time is hotpot time. If you've never had hotpot, you've not had the pleasure of huddling around a cavernous bowl of steaming soup. It's this soup that is used to cook an endless assortment of meats, fish balls, vegetables, noodles and more.

Most hotpot places are a la carte but Hotpot City in Bankstown lets you eat as much as you can from a buffet selection for $35 (only $19 for lunch Monday to Friday).


Hotpot buffet

Everyone gets their own hotpot which means no need to fight over the last fish ball. Choose from 11 soup bases, running from tom yum to kimchi to oxtail with herbs. Don't worry. They have a classic chicken soup too. Everyone gets their own ceramic hot plate so you can keep your soup at just the right temperature for you.


Lamb, pork and beef slices

The hotpot buffet range is extensive. Choose from thinly sliced meats, fish balls, all kind of seafood (prawns, mussels, calamari and more) and plenty of tofu and bean curd variants.


Prawn flavoured balls with fish roe 

Pile up on fresh vegetables and noodles. There's even an offal section that includes chicken hearts, pigs blood and tendon. Yum.

And they have fresh watermelon and oranges that will do you nicely for dessert too.


Taro fish balls


Lotus root slices


DIY sauce station

Don't forget the DIY sauce station. It's a myriad of choice, coupled with coolest sign ever - "May the Sauce be with You".


Chilli powder, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame sauce, fresh coriander and more

Go simple or go for broke with your own crazy concoction. Feel the sauce, Luke.


Fish balls, tofu, pigs blood, chicken hearts, beef tendon and more

Here's my first plate of goodies from the buffet. It was the first of, um, many.


Individual hot pots

Cook as you please, chat with your mates and keep on going back for more until your belly is about to burst. If there's one good thing about winter, it's that you can eat more. And at an all-you-can-eat buffet, that can only be a good thing!






Hotpot City
Little Saigon Plaza
Ground floor Shop 22-25
462 Chapel Road, Bankstown, Sydney
Tel: +61 (02) 8764 8112

Opening hours
Monday to Friday 11.30-3pm and 5pm-10pm
Saturday and Sunday 11.30am-10pm