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Best Hot Pot Restaurants in Orlando & Kissimmee: A Local's Guide
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items Hot pot is the ultimate group dinner: a simmering broth in the middle of the table, endless plates of thinly sliced meat, seafood and veggies, and a dipping sauce you build yourself. Here are my favorite all-you-can-eat and revolving hot pot restaura...
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Volcano on 192 is my top hot pot pick in Kissimmee - all-you-can-eat with your own individual pot plus a Korean BBQ grill in the middle of the table. The tomato broth and the marinated bulgogi are the move. Go hungry.
Volcano Hot Pot & BBQ Kissimmee
KPOT on John Young Pkwy is the easy crowd-pleaser: all-you-can-eat hot pot AND Korean BBQ at one price, with a huge sauce bar. Great for birthdays and big groups since everyone gets their own broth.
KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot - Kissimmee
U & Me near Lake Buena Vista is the conveyor-belt hot pot experience - plates of meat, dumplings and veggies roll past your seat and you grab what you want. The Sichuan spicy broth is legit; ask for mild if you're not sure.
U & Me Revolving Hot Pot
JuicyPot on W Colonial is a smaller, more traditional Chinese hot pot spot with a la carte ordering instead of a buffet. The quality of the meat is a step up, and the house sesame dipping sauce is excellent.
JuicyPot Hot Pot
Volcano's second location right on International Drive is perfect if you're staying in the tourist corridor. Same all-you-can-eat hot pot plus BBQ format as the Kissimmee original, and it's a nice break from theme park food.
Volcano Hot Pot & BBQ I-Drive
Little Sheep is the soup base I reach for on hot pot night at home - one pouch plus water gives you a rich, numbing Mongolian-style broth in ten minutes. The spicy version has real kick, so mix it half-and-half with the plain if kids are eating.
Little Sheep Spicy Hot Pot Soup Base (5-Pack)
The tomato broth is the crowd-pleaser side of every split pot at our house - tangy, a little sweet, and zero heat, so it's the one my kids and spice-averse friends go for. Haidilao's version tastes just like the restaurant.
Haidilao Tomato Hot Pot Soup Base
A divided electric pot is the one piece of gear that makes hot pot at home work - spicy on one side, mild on the other, and no arguing. This Sonya is big enough for four to six people and heats fast enough to keep the broth rolling.
Sonya 5.1L Electric Dual-Sided Hot Pot
Everyone at the table needs their own little strainer basket to fish out dumplings and fishballs without losing them in the broth. A six-pack like this costs less than one restaurant hot pot and you're set for years.
Shabu Shabu Hot Pot Strainer Scoops, Set of 6
My dipping sauce formula is sesame paste, soy, garlic, and a big spoon of this chili crisp. Fly By Jing is pricier than the grocery-store jars but the tribute pepper and crunchy bits are on another level. Also great on eggs the next morning.
Fly By Jing Sichuan Chili Crisp
Glass noodles are the finishing move of any hot pot - drop a handful in the leftover broth at the end and they soak up every bit of flavor. These sweet potato noodles stay chewy and don't turn to mush like rice vermicelli does.
Ottogi Korean Sweet Potato Glass Noodles
Chinese sesame paste is the base of the classic northern-style hot pot dipping sauce - thin it with a little warm water, then add soy, garlic, cilantro and chili oil. It's richer and more toasted than tahini, so don't substitute.
Chinese Sesame Paste
Taste of Chengdu in Baldwin Park is where I go when I want authentic Sichuan flavors with the hot pot - their mala broth is fragrant with real Sichuan peppercorn, not just chili heat. Order the boiled fish and dry pot too if you're sharing.
Taste of Chengdu
If you'd rather use a regular pot than an electric one, this Iwatani butane burner is what the restaurants use. It sits flat on the table, boils fast, and doubles as our hurricane-season backup stove - very Florida.
Iwatani 35FW Portable Butane Stove
The mushroom broth is my pick for the mild side of the pot when I want something more savory than tomato. It's vegetarian-friendly, earthy, and lets good seafood and thin-sliced beef actually taste like themselves.
Lee Kum Kee Mushroom Hot Pot Soup Base