The second location for Yintang Hot Pot opened in Mira Mesa after establishing the first location in the Convoy District. The formula is the same: build the ingredients in a bowl for your hot pot from a cold buffet and then hand it to the cashier to be weighed for pricing. The kitchen staff separates the ingredients for cooking in various pots and delivers everything back to your table in one delicious soup. 

In Mira Mesa, this family-owned Japanese-style hot pot restaurant offers all-you-can-eat meats like Angus beef belly and pork collar in a choice of ten soup bases, including spicy Tokyo. The extensive hot and cold buffet bar offers karaage, Japanese curry, and fried rice in addition to veggies. Don’t forget to indulge in the popular bingsu snow bar dessert bar.

The Japanese restaurant offers all-you-can-eat hot pot with popular broth styles like shabu shabu or sweet sukiyaki. Along with the cold buffet bar and select highlights like Kurobuta pork shoulder, the menu includes specialties like beef shabu curry and cold pork udon salad for no additional charge.

This hot pot restaurant, formerly affiliated with the popular Mongolian chain Little Sheep, does a more traditional hot pot. There are plenty of soup options, but the original is a milky broth made with mutton. Proteins lean heavily toward lamb but there is Kobe beef rib eye, as well as pork blood and intestines. Their lunch special is a bargain at $14.95.

This Chinese hot pot chain in Convoy got its start in Chongqing in China’s Szechuan province. Its signature hot pot features a ring-shaped platter of beef and lamb that circles a hot pot broth made with premium beef tallow that melts into the mala spicy soup. Be warned that the mala spice level starts at a tongue-numbing level.

This dinner-only Convoy spot features flexibility with individual pots in varying sizes, or an AYCE format where everyone in your party can sign up for the same tier. With options like prime ribeye, scallops, and shrimp balls, the soup base options include plain, sukiyaki, or Japanese curry. Veggies, rice, and noodles are included. 

The Korean-style hot pot is an all-you-can-eat affair where you can choose up to three meats at a time along with a buffet of veggies and seafood. The original house soup base with seaweed and anchovy broth is popular. For a discount, go for lunch or the meatless buffet bar only.

With headquarters in Beijing, this handsome restaurant in the Convoy District specializes in spicy Chongqing-style hot pot spiced with Szechuan peppercorns and dried chilies but it also offers milder options like milky pork bone broth. Its extensive a la carte menu includes ingredients such as shrimp paste, streaky pork, and duck blood while its all-you-can-eat sauce and snack bar features better-than-most dessert choices like fried glutinous sesame rice balls and a refreshing jelly soup.

This trendy North Park hot spot adheres to the Japanese tradition of shabu shabu with individual pots around a counter. What distinguishes this hot pot from others is the premium proteins from Snake River Farms and Double R Ranch with grass-fed and hormone-free meats. Go for the take-home porridge with leftovers, egg, and rice. They don’t take reservations so know it’ll be busier on a cooler day.