1585 Hancock St
Quincy, MA 02169
(617) 773-5888
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I took Mary Ellen to hot pot at Sinh Sinh in Houston a while ago with Kim and Chris. She was excited because she had come to love hot pot while in Boston. However, she was a little surprised at our hot pot since it was so different from her experience. She tried to describe it but I didn’t quite get what the possible difference was. You have a tasty broth and a hot pot and then you cook raw ingredients. Hot pot!
So she takes me to HER hot pot in Quincy at a restaurant called Little Q and I myself was taken aback. Walking in I could smell spices. It smelled faintly like an Indian restaurant. I’m not accustomed to these smells when having hot pot. Little Q has all sorts of broth to order when I’m only used to 2 selections: original broth and spicy broth. Mary Ellen ordered the herbal broth and the mala broth. The only hot pot I’ve ever known has a broth is a clean broth. Everything that goes in it is what you put in it. HER hot pot broth has all sorts of herbs and things already floating in it. See below.
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The white broth is the herbal broth and the other one is the Mala broth which is a spicy broth
I stuck mainly with the Mala broth as it’s nice and spicy. The other broth was good too. It has a comforting simpler taste that I would have appreciated more if ailed with a cold or something. It is 16.99 for all you can eat. You choose from a paper menu all the ingredients you want. Mary Ellen focused on a lot of vegetables and I focused on the fish and meatballs. I did find that I like iced bean curd. It has the same consistency as fried tofu but is a lot healthier! (Now if we can find similar substitutes to other fried foods…)
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We stuffed ourselves silly. Here is a fraction of the ingredients we ordered.
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Mary Ellen ordering from the menu.
All in all, it was very curious experience. I’d do it again.
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