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My First Visit to KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot

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Tonight was a friends and family preview night and I’ll admit my first visit to KPOT was a bit overwhelming, so many choices to make. Be sure and let your server guide you through the experience. Guests cook their own food at the table, either in a sunken grill or in boiling pots of soup on individual burners. You order plates of raw meats and veggies that are brought to the table, and then you grill or boil them to your preference.  The menu is huge! You’ll find red meat, poultry, seafood, even delicacies like quail eggs, plus loads of veggies, both familiar and new.  You can get just hotpot or  bbq or both for just $5 more. You get two hours (you have a running clock on the tablet you order on) to cook as much meat as you can eat.

We started with the hot pot. You order your soup base, choose from Thai Tom Yum Szechuan Spicy, Tomato Soup, Healthy Herbs, Japanese Miso, Korean Seafood, Mushroom or Gluten Free.

  1. Select your base – if you don’t like the soup you choose it is OKAY. You are more than welcome to ask for a different soup and they’ll swap it out.

  2. Choose any/all proteins– Don’t throw all the meat into the pot all at once. Take a couple pieces with your chopsticks and dip them into the soup. Sway it back and forth about 2-3 times until it is just done.

  3. Order vegetables and noodles –Be prepared when adding flavor sponges (tofu, Napa cabbage) to spicy broths because they absorb heat and can become overwhelming to eat.

Each item you order gets delivered to you on a small black plate for you to add to your soup when you are ready.

Take a trip up to the sauce bar and choose sauces and toppings. You can get a small bowl to mix your own sauce, selecting chopped scallions, garlic, oyster sauce, ginger sauce  olive oils, vinegar’s, sesame seeds, and other toppings to perfect your meal.  Also some rotating appetizers, tonight there were spring rolls, kimchi, french fries, chicken wings and crab lets.

Next we ordered up some BBQ items to cook at our table. We got the spicy pork belly, finger ribs, and jumbo shrimp, with some onions, garlic and  pineapple,  Shrimp came in the shell with the legs on.  ( Tip – the garlic shrimp comes cleaned, order that instead.)
Use the tongs for raw foods once it is halfway cooked use the scissors to cut them into bite size pieces.  When cooking proteins, center heat is hotter. Sear one side and move it to the outside to finish cooking, starting new protein in the center.  Rookie mistake, we didn’t added sauces to our BBQ. If you like sweet, add a touch of sugar, oyster sauce (which is sweet and salty), kpot sauce, or sweet and spicy sauce. If you like a touch of sour, add vinegar (in the bottles on the sauce bar) or the ponzu which is a citrus soy sauce.  If you like sweet, add a touch of sugar, oyster sauce (which is sweet and salty), kpot sauce, or sweet and spicy sauce.
Be aware – you aren’t allowed to take leftovers home, and there is a food waste fee if you over-order and leave ingredients uneaten.

 

KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot
South Towne Centre

 2148 Miamisburg Centerville Rd,
Dayton, OH 45459

(937) 640-3628

Sun-Thurs: noon – 10:30 PM
Fri-Sat: 12 noon – 11:30 PM