This place is very small and has limited numbers of table. They serve clay pot rice with different toppings. The traditional Chinese sausage one is good but others can be a bit unflavored and require you to add pre soy sauce yourself. We added egg on one of the order and found the egg being overcooked. I can’t say they are awesome but I think out of what you can get from Boston, this is okay. The waitress reminded us about paying tips at the end, which I thought it’s a bit rude.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Chicken Chinese Sausage and Bacon Clay Pot Rice
Joyce
The owners were very sweet and although the place is always crowded.
I tried the chicken and chinese sausage clay pot and it was okay. I would say it needed a little more seasoning and meat because it was mostly rice on the bottom, and the chicken was mostly bones. However, I would say it's worth a try! It's a cozy comfort meal on a cold day.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
T
terrible value. Very little meat.
Justin
For a Monday lunch I went to Clay Pot Cafe. At 11:50 am, the establishment had no customers, save me; within 15 minutes, however, all tables had filled up. I scanned the QR code, went to the chowbus site, and made my order. Note that the establishment does have paper menus.
I ordered the curry fish ball appetizer ($5), herbal soup ($5), and beef noodle soup ($13). The soup and fish ball arrived first, and the beef noodle soup after; everything arrived w/in 15 minutes.
The curry fish ball does not represent good value; however, I really like this so I got it anyways. 5 balls, $1 each, in a curry sauce. The sauce had the decent herbal earthiness characteristic of cantonese curry, though it could have arrived thicker. It also needed a bit more heat as it arrived just past lukewarm.
One compelling reason to go to a traditional Cantonese restaurant instead of a dim sum or big seafood restaurant, for me, remains the herbal soup. Simmered for a while to get all the flavor out of bones, along with dried seafood for sweeter umami, makes this soup hearty in flavor yet light in saiety. I do wish they'd strain the bones out before serving.
For the main, I ordered beef noodle soup with rice noodles. Soup seemed decently flavored with stock (not soy sauce in case you wanted Taiwanese style). The beef needed to be heated up as well - its accompanying sauce was also lukewarm, in contrast to the piping hot soup.
Overall, not a bad place for a quick meal offering cantonese cuisine, but I wouldn't rave about it.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Eric Chiu
A Hong Kong-style restaurant located near Chinatown Station on the Orange Line of the Boston Rapid Transit, specializing in a variety of clay pot rice, soups and desserts. Use the QR code to order, the claypot rice is freshly made, the sausages and bacon are cooked together with the rice, and then drizzled with soy sauce before serving. The aroma of the rice blends with the aroma of the bacon fat, and there is also a slightly crispy and delicious rice. A Hong Kong-style restaurant located near Chinatown Station on the Orange Line of the Boston Rapid Transit, specializing in a variety of clay pot rice, soups and desserts. Use the QR code to order, the claypot rice is freshly made, the sausage and bacon are cooked together with the rice, and then drizzled with soy sauce before serving. The aroma of the rice blends with the aroma of the bacon fat, and there is also a slightly crispy and delicious rice.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Ruby Chan
When I visited Boston Chinatown, I randomly found a place on Google Map named "Mongkok Clay Pot Rice" in chinese, which resembled a place in Hong Kong.
It was 19°F so we were desperately in need of warm and carb-heavy food. The clay pot kept the rice steaming hot from start to finish, perfect for the cold weather in Boston.
＊Chinese Sausage and Bacon Clay Pot Rice 臘味煲仔飯 (L) $33 Their clay pot rice is available in small, medium and large portion. We were too ambitious and got large...My jaw dropped when the food arrived. The portion was MASSIVE. It could easily feed 3-4 people.
I chose the most classic and basic lap cheong claypot rice. It was a layer of chinese sausage and cured pork belly topped on a bed of rice, drizzled with sweet soy sauce. The crispy rice at the bottom was my favorite.
I have never had claypot rice in Hong Kong even I was born and raised there. My standard for clay pot rice might be low, but at least they seemed pretty authentic. I wished they could add mushrooms to add more depth of flavors to the rice though.
The space was cramped and busy. You place order through QR code, yet the online order system was a mess because they kept messing up people's orders.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
A C
Hmmm… was exited to try out this authentic Cantonese style claypot rice but saddened to see a pot-full of rice 90% with barely any meat despite a very deceiving picture on the menu. Also, ordered stir fried frog legs and find nearly a bowlful of garlic cloves?
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Jason
I ordered a medium size clay pot rice and cost me 29bucks, it has only 10 tiny pieces of chicken but with rice enough for 4. That is very high margin profit for this restaurant and it should ask banks to do IPO in nasdaq!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Salted Chicken Clay Pot Rice
Hai
I online ordered Frog W. Garlic Casserole 蒜子田鸡煲, the portion is too small. The takeout box is already small, yet it’s not even filled up. There isn’t much meat inside, and garlic alone takes up a third of the space. It’s so frustrating!
Food: 2
Jiaming Zhang
Too expensive for several piece of meat and a whole bowl of rice.
We ordered several dishes for 3 of us... medium eel clay pot rice, small chicken and mushroom clay pot rice, beef in clay pot, and a vegetable dish. Great flavor. Eel, chicken, vegetables, and beef are all good. I feel the clay pot is mostly rice with not enough protein for the price. The place is really small and packed.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Salted Chicken Clay Pot Rice
Zhijin Yang
This is the worst service I have received at a Chinese restaurant. The flavor of beef is not used to eating for me as northern Chinese, it's tastes a little weird and fishy. (I usually find it hard to eat meat that smells weird. I’m not trying to be picky.) We paid quickly and left, but the boss actually chased us out and asked us if we paid! ? The problem is how could we not know about it when we just paid it a minute ago? And in a questioning tone, he asked me why I didn’t eat? ! I paid politely and left. Isn’t it better than wrangling in the store and affecting other customers? ? As a practitioner in the catering industry, shouldn’t we be most concerned about the quality of the dishes? But when they chased us, they still asked us for payment first... I was really speechless🙄
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Irina Zheng
The queue relies on a honor system. If somebody comes out, you head inside and everybody else queues outside. The food was mid and they gave us the wrong dish at first. You order using a QR code.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Han Wang
The waitress’ opinions are very bad. There is even someone’s hair in the rice clay pot. And the worst thing is that they didn’t have a good attitude to solve this problem. They even blamed me and had a very bad express. They dismissed our request for communication and they didn’t apologize! I WILL NEVER COME HERE!!!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Michael Sun
Ordered delivery. Egg shell in shrimp with scrambled eggs. Shredded pork with green pepper tasted bland.
This place is very small and has limited numbers of table. They serve clay pot rice with different toppings. The traditional Chinese sausage one is good but others can be a bit unflavored and require you to add pre soy sauce yourself. We added egg on one of the order and found the egg being overcooked. I can’t say they are awesome but I think out of what you can get from Boston, this is okay. The waitress reminded us about paying tips at the end, which I thought it’s a bit rude.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Chicken Chinese Sausage and Bacon Clay Pot Rice
The owners were very sweet and although the place is always crowded.
I tried the chicken and chinese sausage clay pot and it was okay. I would say it needed a little more seasoning and meat because it was mostly rice on the bottom, and the chicken was mostly bones. However, I would say it's worth a try! It's a cozy comfort meal on a cold day.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
terrible value. Very little meat.
For a Monday lunch I went to Clay Pot Cafe. At 11:50 am, the establishment had no customers, save me; within 15 minutes, however, all tables had filled up. I scanned the QR code, went to the chowbus site, and made my order. Note that the establishment does have paper menus.
I ordered the curry fish ball appetizer ($5), herbal soup ($5), and beef noodle soup ($13). The soup and fish ball arrived first, and the beef noodle soup after; everything arrived w/in 15 minutes.
The curry fish ball does not represent good value; however, I really like this so I got it anyways. 5 balls, $1 each, in a curry sauce. The sauce had the decent herbal earthiness characteristic of cantonese curry, though it could have arrived thicker. It also needed a bit more heat as it arrived just past lukewarm.
One compelling reason to go to a traditional Cantonese restaurant instead of a dim sum or big seafood restaurant, for me, remains the herbal soup. Simmered for a while to get all the flavor out of bones, along with dried seafood for sweeter umami, makes this soup hearty in flavor yet light in saiety. I do wish they'd strain the bones out before serving.
For the main, I ordered beef noodle soup with rice noodles. Soup seemed decently flavored with stock (not soy sauce in case you wanted Taiwanese style). The beef needed to be heated up as well - its accompanying sauce was also lukewarm, in contrast to the piping hot soup.
Overall, not a bad place for a quick meal offering cantonese cuisine, but I wouldn't rave about it.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
A Hong Kong-style restaurant located near Chinatown Station on the Orange Line of the Boston Rapid Transit, specializing in a variety of clay pot rice, soups and desserts. Use the QR code to order, the claypot rice is freshly made, the sausages and bacon are cooked together with the rice, and then drizzled with soy sauce before serving. The aroma of the rice blends with the aroma of the bacon fat, and there is also a slightly crispy and delicious rice.
A Hong Kong-style restaurant located near Chinatown Station on the Orange Line of the Boston Rapid Transit, specializing in a variety of clay pot rice, soups and desserts. Use the QR code to order, the claypot rice is freshly made, the sausage and bacon are cooked together with the rice, and then drizzled with soy sauce before serving. The aroma of the rice blends with the aroma of the bacon fat, and there is also a slightly crispy and delicious rice.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
When I visited Boston Chinatown, I randomly found a place on Google Map named "Mongkok Clay Pot Rice" in chinese, which resembled a place in Hong Kong.
It was 19°F so we were desperately in need of warm and carb-heavy food. The clay pot kept the rice steaming hot from start to finish, perfect for the cold weather in Boston.
＊Chinese Sausage and Bacon Clay Pot Rice 臘味煲仔飯 (L) $33
Their clay pot rice is available in small, medium and large portion. We were too ambitious and got large...My jaw dropped when the food arrived. The portion was MASSIVE. It could easily feed 3-4 people.
I chose the most classic and basic lap cheong claypot rice. It was a layer of chinese sausage and cured pork belly topped on a bed of rice, drizzled with sweet soy sauce. The crispy rice at the bottom was my favorite.
I have never had claypot rice in Hong Kong even I was born and raised there. My standard for clay pot rice might be low, but at least they seemed pretty authentic. I wished they could add mushrooms to add more depth of flavors to the rice though.
The space was cramped and busy. You place order through QR code, yet the online order system was a mess because they kept messing up people's orders.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
Hmmm… was exited to try out this authentic Cantonese style claypot rice but saddened to see a pot-full of rice 90% with barely any meat despite a very deceiving picture on the menu. Also, ordered stir fried frog legs and find nearly a bowlful of garlic cloves?
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
I ordered a medium size clay pot rice and cost me 29bucks, it has only 10 tiny pieces of chicken but with rice enough for 4. That is very high margin profit for this restaurant and it should ask banks to do IPO in nasdaq!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Salted Chicken Clay Pot Rice
I online ordered Frog W. Garlic Casserole 蒜子田鸡煲, the portion is too small. The takeout box is already small, yet it’s not even filled up. There isn’t much meat inside, and garlic alone takes up a third of the space. It’s so frustrating!
Food: 2
Too expensive for several piece of meat and a whole bowl of rice.
Food: 2
Restaurantji Recommends
We ordered several dishes for 3 of us... medium eel clay pot rice, small chicken and mushroom clay pot rice, beef in clay pot, and a vegetable dish. Great flavor. Eel, chicken, vegetables, and beef are all good. I feel the clay pot is mostly rice with not enough protein for the price. The place is really small and packed.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Salted Chicken Clay Pot Rice
This is the worst service I have received at a Chinese restaurant. The flavor of beef is not used to eating for me as northern Chinese, it's tastes a little weird and fishy. (I usually find it hard to eat meat that smells weird. I’m not trying to be picky.) We paid quickly and left, but the boss actually chased us out and asked us if we paid! ? The problem is how could we not know about it when we just paid it a minute ago? And in a questioning tone, he asked me why I didn’t eat? ! I paid politely and left. Isn’t it better than wrangling in the store and affecting other customers? ? As a practitioner in the catering industry, shouldn’t we be most concerned about the quality of the dishes? But when they chased us, they still asked us for payment first... I was really speechless🙄
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
The queue relies on a honor system. If somebody comes out, you head inside and everybody else queues outside. The food was mid and they gave us the wrong dish at first. You order using a QR code.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
The waitress’ opinions are very bad. There is even someone’s hair in the rice clay pot. And the worst thing is that they didn’t have a good attitude to solve this problem. They even blamed me and had a very bad express. They dismissed our request for communication and they didn’t apologize! I WILL NEVER COME HERE!!!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Ordered delivery. Egg shell in shrimp with scrambled eggs. Shredded pork with green pepper tasted bland.
Food: 1
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