Tasty Pot is a chain restaurant that specializes in Taiwanese hot pot dishes. It originated from Taiwan, but has expanded to North America with multiple locations across US on both East and West coast. It also has a restaurant located in Canada. Tasty Pot has recently expanded to Oregon and opened a new location at Beaverton, thus we decided to give it a try.
We got to Tasty Pot at Beaverton around 1PM in the afternoon. The restaurant was not entirely full but was still crowded. The waitress politely took us to an open table and gave us the menu. On the menu, there were 12 different hot pot dishes with 3 different prices. The cheapest was $14 and the most expensive one with lobster was $18. The expensive hot pot was also served with a larger pot. We ordered Beef and Curry hot pot and chose rice and black tea.
After about 5 minutes, the hot pot was delivered to us. The hot pot plate was quite unique and detailed. It definitely looked different from the one at boiling point. In addition, we could hardly spot the fire underneath the pot.
The Curry hot pot had very similar ingredient as the one at Boiling Point with fish balls, beef, imitated crab meat, cabbage, etc. The difference was that there was a raw egg placed in here and the curry taste though was much lighter. The Beef hot pot was similar to the one at Boiling Point as well, but less spicy. The additional ingredient in the Beef hot pot includes clam and taro. One thing that was different at Tasty pot was that there was a tomato in all the hot pot dishes.
Tasty Pot also served bubble tea as A-Cha brand. We did not order it however as we already got black tea from the lunch meal.
Overall, Tasty Pot was not bad and had the essentials of Taiwanese hot pot dish. Since it has a restaurant located in Oregon and Oregon does not have sales tax, we no longer need to drive 3 hours to go to Seattle to enjoy Taiwanese hot pot.
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