Enoki mushrooms, bok choy, sauces, rice. at Hot Pot Hero - Ellicott City in Ellicott City

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Serves meat, vegan options available. Casual hot pot restaurant offering clearly marked vegan broths (tomato and mushroom) and a range of ingredients such as tofu, vegetables, mushrooms and rice. Open Mon-Thu 11:30am-10:00pm, Fri-Sat 11:30am-10:30pm, Sun 11:30am-10:00pm.

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1 Review

First Review by RomaineCalm_CarrotOn

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RomaineCalm_CarrotOn

Points +162

Vegan
02 Apr 2025

Vegan friendly all-you-can-eat hot pot spot in Ellicott.

If you're going here with meat eaters, be warned. Don't order your food with theirs. You'll end up with meat right on your veggies. I'd go here every now and then with some omnivore friends and have had issues with my order of veggies being placed on various meats in the platter. Since then, I let the meat eaters order their stuff first and I'll order mine afterwards.

For vegetable broth, you'll find that they have tomato soup, mushroom soup and spicy mushroom soup. All three of these are marked vegan, and if you ask one of the English speakers that work there, he'll verify that they use just water and vegetables for broth.

They have various types of tofu: fried, fresh, skinned and deep fried. Leafy veggies from cabbage, bok choy, spinach, seaweed, to watercress and broccoli. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and taro. Various shrooms: king oyster shrooms, oysters shrooms, wood ear shrooms, and enoki shrooms.

Be warned, the quality of their vegetable broth selections have declined over time. It doesn't taste nearly as fresh as it once did, back in 2021-2023. So, if your taste buds are picking up on a strange taste/texture in the vegetable broth, that's why. I double-checked to ensure it wasn't animal broth. They claimed that it's boiled veggies. Either they mix all their soup containers together and don't wash them well, or there's a misunderstanding between the management and the cooks.

Updated from previous review on 2025-04-02

Pros: Vegetables, Tofu, Vegan friendly sauces at the sauce bar

Cons: Possible food contamination., Vegetable broth contains strange sediments/flavor., You can smell cooked meat.

Enoki mushrooms, bok choy, sauces, rice. at Hot Pot Hero - Ellicott City in Ellicott City

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