Funny place, it’s not open and doesn’t update the status on Google Maps. I don’t answer the phone calls. People come all the way here and the store is closed.
Service: 1
David Bradshaw
I really like this place. Not too full and food comes quick. Food is good and about the cheapest hot pot I have found. Staff is super friendly and I enjoy every visit. Never had an issue. Love the broth and meat is good quality.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kat Meng
Diarrhea after the meal. Third time visiting this place and have been to multiple hot pot restaurants before. Something is wrong with the ingredients. Everything is cooked to boil. I am not sure I will go back again. I was naive to believe in the advertisement of fresh ingredients.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
cheng dalila
Food is good, all beef plates are worth to try! Pork brain and maodu not as good as I expected. Robot cat delivers are fun.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Anh D.
Great service and great prices. They have a QR code for you to order from and it comes to you on a robot (the waiters usually unload the dishes for you). There's also a station for you to get basic dipping accompaniments and shrimp crackers and such. My favorite items: lamb, seaweed, fish tofu, and hot pot egg noodles.My biggest gripe was sitting at a booth and the booth was so far from the table. My back was a solid foot away from the booth the entire time to be in eating distance. It was super uncomfortable. However, the second time I went, I sat at a table that had regular chairs and it was much better.
Sunny C
Saw the Yelp reviews and had to come. It's a fun and friendly budget hot pot place. I'm used to AYCE so it's nice to have a good hot pot without breaking the bank.It's about $20 per person and we do get to take home leftovers.There's very little meat choices. We just ordered rib eye and the portion size was decent. We also loved the snow pea leaf and jumbo tiger prawns.It's true the dipping sauce cost $1 each so we ordered the bare minimum and shared. The sauce bar has unlimited soy sauce, vinegar, cilantro, and green onions.The kids enjoyed the robots that delivered the plates. Everything is ordered through the QR code on the table.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: New Zealand Lamb, Duck Blood, Rib Eye Slice
Sunny C.
Saw the Yelp reviews and had to come. It's a fun and friendly budget hot pot place. I'm used to AYCE so it's nice to have a good hot pot without breaking the bank. It's about $20 per person and we do get to take home leftovers. There's very little meat choices. We just ordered rib eye and the portion size was decent. We also loved the snow pea leaf and jumbo tiger prawns. It's true the dipping sauce cost $1 each so we ordered the bare minimum and shared. The sauce bar has unlimited soy sauce, vinegar, cilantro, and green onions. The kids enjoyed the robots that delivered the plates. Everything is ordered through the QR code on the table.
Alan S.
Located off Barranca Parkway near Lake Road, Daimei Hot Pot occupies a warehouse-sized space in the Woodbridge village of Irvine. There's plenty of room for outdoor parking as well as indoor seating. Prices are affordable, especially compared to other local hot pot restaurants, but they also don't offer as many frills. The menu features a wide selection of meats, seafood, vegetables, soy products and noodles. We opted for the double-flavor soup base so we could try more than one flavor. Sauce offerings include soy sauce, vinegar and chili oil. There are other traditional dipping sauces, but you have to pay extra for them.I never expect above and beyond customer service at any Chinese restaurant, but the staff was reasonably attentive. Daimei even features a small fleet of robot cats that deliver ordered items directly to your table! Check out Daimei for an authentic and reasonably priced hotpot experience.
ro se Yang
I am a hot pot lover, so I must try hot pot wherever there is one. I went to this hotpot restaurant as soon as I got off work with excitement. Overall, I feel that the price is very affordable, with ample portions of meat and low prices for small portions of vegetables. However, I feel that many of the ingredients are not fresh enough, as if they have been on the plate for a long time, and many of the ingredients are dry and discolored... The soup base tastes average, and there is no hot pot dipping. The ingredients and the eating plate are also very small, and there is no mellow aftertaste... The objective evaluation is really not good... The price is cheap, but it lacks the mood of eating hot pot... The most uncomfortable thing is that several friends have diarrhea when they come back...
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 1
Yolie S.
Highly recommend coming here for when you're craving hot pot but don't want to splurge. They got all the basics covered and the price is unbeatable! We spent around $20/person and had food leftover. That's half the price of other Chinese hot pot places. Soup: There's only two options (spicy or bone broth). Both are pretty good and it was only $1 extra to get bothSauce: I was initially turned off by the fact that you need to pay extra for each sauce but you can totally get multiple and share it with 2-3 people and it comes out to the same price as the sauce bar at other hot pot placesMeat: It's no wagyu but the quality is like what you'd find at Asian supermarkets. Other dishes: Veggies are super affordable. The tiger shrimp is so much bigger than I was expecting! Highly recommend!Tip- If you're with a large party (like 8 people) you can get seated in the open private room with a shared pot in the middle
TLDR: fresh hotpot ingredients for a great price at a clean restaurant with good service. No rice, but has noodles.The quality of the meat, vegetables and other hot pot ingredients (blood tofu, beef tripe, etc) here is really good and for a very fair price! The soup base is delicious, and food comes fast (via a robot and staff helps unload it onto a cart for you).The place is really big and clean, yet not too loud (which is surprising for a hot pot restaurant). You can get some dipping sauces at a station (I like mine with a lot of cilantro, green onions, chili oil and vinegar with a touch of soy sauce), but they have additional spices/sauces for a few quarters.Honestly, there isn't much else to add. It's good food for a great price at a clean restaurant with good service. The lack of rice is interesting, but I love the noodles they have anyways so that's not a problem for me.
Chewson H.
Dai Mei is a known chain in China for its affordability for hot pot. There really are no frills to this place. So this is like any typical DIY hotpot where you order things and you have to cook it yourself. You order everything through the QR code. The servers there do not take your order. They also use delivery robots to bring you food to your table so the servers aren't always around but they do check up on you like refilling your soup or anything like that. There is a sauce bar, it is free but there's only like a few things there like green onion, cilantro, vinegar, and soy sauce. Everything else needs to be ordered and it's a dollar per sauce. The sauce comes in a plastic cup with a lid but I recommend going to the sauce bar and getting a little dish and pouring out your sauce onto it as it'll make it easier to dip. However, what I ended up doing was taking a bowl and scooping out the hot soup and using that as a dipping sauce. I think that gave the best flavor as ordering different sauces to make whatever sauce I want would be excessively expensive for a dipping sauce. Remember, each sauce is a dollar and if you have multiple people that's going to be multiple dollars. The food quality isn't bad at all. For the price of the meat, you do get a lot for the price. I was looking at other people's tables and it seems like regardless of which meat you get, it's a lot. I probably recommend the rib eye if you want the meat with the least amount of fat. The veggies that I ordered were pretty fresh and they ranged from like fifty cents to 3 dollars on average. It may not seem like a lot but it does add up quite quickly. I'm not a fan of how a lot of the roots like potatoes, taro, and that kind of food is sliced pretty thin. It breaks and falls apart very quickly when you cook it. The soup has two choices, it's either a mala spicy which on a scale of mild, medium, or hot... it's definitely on the hot side. They also have a herbal soup that is non-spicy. There is only two choices and the soup isn't free. I think it's like 5 dollars. I recommend the ying yang soup (half each) as cooking some things in the hot soup can get REALLY spicy. Like noodles or vegetables soak up thats soup get REALLY REALLY spicy. Aside from the fresh food, good meat portion sizing, there is one huge con. THEY DO NOT HAVE RICE. This is the first hot pot place that I've ever been to that doesn't have any rice. The only carb you can really get is just instant noodles. But hot pot isn't the same without rice. That is the only thing keeping me from wanting to come back. The interior of this place is really big and bright. It's weird that they only open for a couple of hours. When I first walked in there was so much loud music playing but as it reached 9 PM all of the music stopped. They close at 9:30 PM. The restroom is also really clean and modern which is weird to say about a Chinese restaurant. There are lots of parking spots as well and I didn't have a hard time finding a parking spot.Overall, I enjoyed my food but I wish there was white rice. The affordable price is pretty attractive and the quality definitely exceeds the price. If you are someone that can eat hotpot without white rice, this is definitely a place for you to try. If you're like me and you want white rice to go with your hotpot, I wouldn't put this on your try list if that would kill your experience.
huang luna
The ingredients are good, the beef is delicious and large, the dishes are diverse, cheap and fresh, the price is really
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kerwin Hua
My wife and I like it very much. great food and service. Will definitely come again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jen
This hotpot place is less expensive than others in the area, but quality was lacking . A pro is that the meat servings are large for the price. The lamb and the dumplings were probably the best items we got. The mussels and meatballs were solid. The worst item was the croaker. It was just filled with tiny bones, so it was not really edible. The beef belly was too fatty, and was also clearly old (you can see dark spots around the edges, and it had a weird aftertaste). The cabbage was also not fresh and was bitter.The sauce station was bare, with just soy sauce, vinegar, a spicy sauce, green onions, and cilantro. They also don’t serve rice here, which is weird.
Funny place, it’s not open and doesn’t update the status on Google Maps. I don’t answer the phone calls. People come all the way here and the store is closed.
Service: 1
I really like this place. Not too full and food comes quick. Food is good and about the cheapest hot pot I have found. Staff is super friendly and I enjoy every visit. Never had an issue. Love the broth and meat is good quality.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Diarrhea after the meal. Third time visiting this place and have been to multiple hot pot restaurants before. Something is wrong with the ingredients. Everything is cooked to boil. I am not sure I will go back again. I was naive to believe in the advertisement of fresh ingredients.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Food is good, all beef plates are worth to try! Pork brain and maodu not as good as I expected. Robot cat delivers are fun.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Great service and great prices. They have a QR code for you to order from and it comes to you on a robot (the waiters usually unload the dishes for you). There's also a station for you to get basic dipping accompaniments and shrimp crackers and such. My favorite items: lamb, seaweed, fish tofu, and hot pot egg noodles.My biggest gripe was sitting at a booth and the booth was so far from the table. My back was a solid foot away from the booth the entire time to be in eating distance. It was super uncomfortable. However, the second time I went, I sat at a table that had regular chairs and it was much better.
Saw the Yelp reviews and had to come. It's a fun and friendly budget hot pot place. I'm used to AYCE so it's nice to have a good hot pot without breaking the bank.It's about $20 per person and we do get to take home leftovers.There's very little meat choices. We just ordered rib eye and the portion size was decent. We also loved the snow pea leaf and jumbo tiger prawns.It's true the dipping sauce cost $1 each so we ordered the bare minimum and shared. The sauce bar has unlimited soy sauce, vinegar, cilantro, and green onions.The kids enjoyed the robots that delivered the plates. Everything is ordered through the QR code on the table.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: New Zealand Lamb, Duck Blood, Rib Eye Slice
Saw the Yelp reviews and had to come. It's a fun and friendly budget hot pot place. I'm used to AYCE so it's nice to have a good hot pot without breaking the bank. It's about $20 per person and we do get to take home leftovers. There's very little meat choices. We just ordered rib eye and the portion size was decent. We also loved the snow pea leaf and jumbo tiger prawns. It's true the dipping sauce cost $1 each so we ordered the bare minimum and shared. The sauce bar has unlimited soy sauce, vinegar, cilantro, and green onions. The kids enjoyed the robots that delivered the plates. Everything is ordered through the QR code on the table.
Located off Barranca Parkway near Lake Road, Daimei Hot Pot occupies a warehouse-sized space in the Woodbridge village of Irvine. There's plenty of room for outdoor parking as well as indoor seating. Prices are affordable, especially compared to other local hot pot restaurants, but they also don't offer as many frills. The menu features a wide selection of meats, seafood, vegetables, soy products and noodles. We opted for the double-flavor soup base so we could try more than one flavor. Sauce offerings include soy sauce, vinegar and chili oil. There are other traditional dipping sauces, but you have to pay extra for them.I never expect above and beyond customer service at any Chinese restaurant, but the staff was reasonably attentive. Daimei even features a small fleet of robot cats that deliver ordered items directly to your table! Check out Daimei for an authentic and reasonably priced hotpot experience.
I am a hot pot lover, so I must try hot pot wherever there is one. I went to this hotpot restaurant as soon as I got off work with excitement. Overall, I feel that the price is very affordable, with ample portions of meat and low prices for small portions of vegetables. However, I feel that many of the ingredients are not fresh enough, as if they have been on the plate for a long time, and many of the ingredients are dry and discolored... The soup base tastes average, and there is no hot pot dipping. The ingredients and the eating plate are also very small, and there is no mellow aftertaste... The objective evaluation is really not good... The price is cheap, but it lacks the mood of eating hot pot... The most uncomfortable thing is that several friends have diarrhea when they come back...
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 1
Highly recommend coming here for when you're craving hot pot but don't want to splurge. They got all the basics covered and the price is unbeatable! We spent around $20/person and had food leftover. That's half the price of other Chinese hot pot places. Soup: There's only two options (spicy or bone broth). Both are pretty good and it was only $1 extra to get bothSauce: I was initially turned off by the fact that you need to pay extra for each sauce but you can totally get multiple and share it with 2-3 people and it comes out to the same price as the sauce bar at other hot pot placesMeat: It's no wagyu but the quality is like what you'd find at Asian supermarkets. Other dishes: Veggies are super affordable. The tiger shrimp is so much bigger than I was expecting! Highly recommend!Tip- If you're with a large party (like 8 people) you can get seated in the open private room with a shared pot in the middle
Restaurantji Recommends
TLDR: fresh hotpot ingredients for a great price at a clean restaurant with good service. No rice, but has noodles.The quality of the meat, vegetables and other hot pot ingredients (blood tofu, beef tripe, etc) here is really good and for a very fair price! The soup base is delicious, and food comes fast (via a robot and staff helps unload it onto a cart for you).The place is really big and clean, yet not too loud (which is surprising for a hot pot restaurant). You can get some dipping sauces at a station (I like mine with a lot of cilantro, green onions, chili oil and vinegar with a touch of soy sauce), but they have additional spices/sauces for a few quarters.Honestly, there isn't much else to add. It's good food for a great price at a clean restaurant with good service. The lack of rice is interesting, but I love the noodles they have anyways so that's not a problem for me.
Dai Mei is a known chain in China for its affordability for hot pot. There really are no frills to this place. So this is like any typical DIY hotpot where you order things and you have to cook it yourself. You order everything through the QR code. The servers there do not take your order. They also use delivery robots to bring you food to your table so the servers aren't always around but they do check up on you like refilling your soup or anything like that. There is a sauce bar, it is free but there's only like a few things there like green onion, cilantro, vinegar, and soy sauce. Everything else needs to be ordered and it's a dollar per sauce. The sauce comes in a plastic cup with a lid but I recommend going to the sauce bar and getting a little dish and pouring out your sauce onto it as it'll make it easier to dip. However, what I ended up doing was taking a bowl and scooping out the hot soup and using that as a dipping sauce. I think that gave the best flavor as ordering different sauces to make whatever sauce I want would be excessively expensive for a dipping sauce. Remember, each sauce is a dollar and if you have multiple people that's going to be multiple dollars. The food quality isn't bad at all. For the price of the meat, you do get a lot for the price. I was looking at other people's tables and it seems like regardless of which meat you get, it's a lot. I probably recommend the rib eye if you want the meat with the least amount of fat. The veggies that I ordered were pretty fresh and they ranged from like fifty cents to 3 dollars on average. It may not seem like a lot but it does add up quite quickly. I'm not a fan of how a lot of the roots like potatoes, taro, and that kind of food is sliced pretty thin. It breaks and falls apart very quickly when you cook it. The soup has two choices, it's either a mala spicy which on a scale of mild, medium, or hot... it's definitely on the hot side. They also have a herbal soup that is non-spicy. There is only two choices and the soup isn't free. I think it's like 5 dollars. I recommend the ying yang soup (half each) as cooking some things in the hot soup can get REALLY spicy. Like noodles or vegetables soak up thats soup get REALLY REALLY spicy. Aside from the fresh food, good meat portion sizing, there is one huge con. THEY DO NOT HAVE RICE. This is the first hot pot place that I've ever been to that doesn't have any rice. The only carb you can really get is just instant noodles. But hot pot isn't the same without rice. That is the only thing keeping me from wanting to come back. The interior of this place is really big and bright. It's weird that they only open for a couple of hours. When I first walked in there was so much loud music playing but as it reached 9 PM all of the music stopped. They close at 9:30 PM. The restroom is also really clean and modern which is weird to say about a Chinese restaurant. There are lots of parking spots as well and I didn't have a hard time finding a parking spot.Overall, I enjoyed my food but I wish there was white rice. The affordable price is pretty attractive and the quality definitely exceeds the price. If you are someone that can eat hotpot without white rice, this is definitely a place for you to try. If you're like me and you want white rice to go with your hotpot, I wouldn't put this on your try list if that would kill your experience.
The ingredients are good, the beef is delicious and large, the dishes are diverse, cheap and fresh, the price is really
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My wife and I like it very much. great food and service. Will definitely come again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This hotpot place is less expensive than others in the area, but quality was lacking . A pro is that the meat servings are large for the price. The lamb and the dumplings were probably the best items we got. The mussels and meatballs were solid. The worst item was the croaker. It was just filled with tiny bones, so it was not really edible. The beef belly was too fatty, and was also clearly old (you can see dark spots around the edges, and it had a weird aftertaste). The cabbage was also not fresh and was bitter.The sauce station was bare, with just soy sauce, vinegar, a spicy sauce, green onions, and cilantro. They also don’t serve rice here, which is weird.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 3