Yuan's Hotpot Los Angeles

If you say Xiaolongkan, Lameizi, and Chunlahao are traditional hot pot places, then Yuan's is the fashionable style, both in renovation and decoration. Yuan's might be the high-end hot pot in Los Angeles.

The restaurant has private rooms with full-time waitstaff and serves free snacks that you would normally have to pick up at the dipping station in other hot pot restaurants. The free Sichuan pepper chicken feet were delicious, and the fried sesame balls were hot, crispy, and tasted good.

The food was not more expensive than other hot pot places. The specialty was their wagyu beef, which had better quality than others.

I don't remember whether they had the nine-block pot. What I saw looked like a Mercedes logo shape, so you could have three kinds of soup base - one especially for fish, one for wagyu, and one for everything else. The pot was funny, with a copper-colored tiger head on the side. I don't know if the direction the head pointed to meant anything.

Hot pot is just hot pot. As long as the raw ingredients are fresh enough, it will not be bad. Nowadays, the soup base is no longer a secret. Hot pot is one of the foods that requires the least cooking skills from the chef.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Amazing experience and food is delicious

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great service. Recommended the pork meat ball. Delicious.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

The waiters are very enthusiastic and have a good attitude. The environment is also clean and makes people feel very good! Recommended👍👍👍

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I often ate here in the first few years after it opened. I have a good impression of this place. It is delicious and the service is good. I don’t know when the service became so rubbish. The oyster sauce was replaced with seafood sauce. It was too sweet. I reacted several times to a female waiter. She was told that oyster sauce is naturally sweet. Oyster sauce is the soul of my hot pot. I had to finish the whole meal. The waiter told me that they had replaced it with seafood sauce. I was really speechless. Moreover, you have collected the small material fee and started collecting it early. Shouldn’t you have told the guests about it? I paid for the ingredients, and you should at least have the right to know when you take them away. I originally wanted to have some porridge after eating, but ended up taking it all away...

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

It was actually much better than most critics reviews I saw lately. The environment is good and the services are excellent. Their meats and dishes are very fresh but not on the cheap side. Overall good experience and will come back.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Boneless Duck Feet, Duck Blood

not fresh food .service not good too.The two of them had diarrhea after returning home.

Kid-friendliness: no

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

Dinner time without line, that’s the reason. Service was poor, it is not a hotpot buffet, but waitress barely show up. Foods quality are not as good as two years ago.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 1

Idk but it was good today

Poor hygiene, many tableware are dirty
The environment is bad, it’s freezing
Sitting by the window, the cold wind howled, the food was frozen in a second, and the waiter refused to let me change seats. My nose was so cold that I had a runny nose, and I was shivering after eating hot pot for the first time🥶. I have a headache after eating frozen food🤦
Our waiter was too busy and had a very nice attitude. I just don’t know what the hell is the rule that doesn’t allow changing seats...it was too cold and I couldn’t eat a bit, so a lot of the food was wasted.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 3

Dining on 12.25.2024 was the same as the previous reviews. Everyone was charged a fee, but the food table was never replenished, especially the pickled pepper and chicken feet. In the end, only a little cucumber and mushrooms were replenished..., service staff I didn't go around to refill the water, but I came twice in a hurry to check out.

The HotPot base wasn't bad, and you get a decent quantity of food per order, but there was never any chicken paw with pickled peppers which is their specialty.
Also the staff barely check on the table and refilled the water.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

The portion size is really too small. Give 6 thin slices of black tofu. The waist slices are also thin. The taste is ok. The overall feeling is that the hot girls from the mountain city are better.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: pig kidney 精品腰花

Im not local. I went there as recommendation from a friend. Food was ok. They charged almost $3 per person for bar self service but when I was there, bar was 95% empty food but still got charged. I was really disappointed.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3

The food taste and service can’t be said about it. The snack table is also very rich👍🏻but the price will be a little higher~

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: beef belly 精品肥牛, tong ho 茼蒿, angus beef ribeye 安格斯牛眼肉, shrimp paste 手作虾滑, beef aorta 极品牛黄喉

Loved it, it was our first time coming to a hotpot and LA, we were looking for somewhere to eat after a flight, it was great. Worth it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5