QQ Chicky Pot – Glen Waverley – claypot dishes with the option to go hot pot

QQ Chicky Pot is located just outside The Glen Shopping Centre where Niubi used to located. QQ Chicky Pot is a Taiwanese restaurant offering claypot meals and hot pots. The idea experience is to order one of their claypots with rice or noodles and then, once you have your fill (or are satisfied with the claypot), have the claypot filled with hot chicken soup for a hot pot experience. Or you can go straight into the hot pot experience by having the hot soup poured into the claypot.

The restaurant is not hard to find if you are coming up from Kingsway. It’s just across from Boiling Crab and next to Betty’s Burgers. The restaurant seems to be brimming with people most nights. We didn’t have a reservation, but managed to wait a few minutes to secure a table.

When you sit down, there is already a portable gas hot stove on the table ready to go. You simply order what you want by ordering at the counter. Choose between a claypot or a hot pot. You can start with their signature chicken pot for $42, and optional add $5 for boneless chicken, and then add whatever extra meats and vegetables you want – there is an extensive list of things you can choose from.

Plus there is even a sauce station where you can combine various condiments together to make your very own sauce, e.g. from sesame sauce, satay sauce, chili oil, soy sauce, and vinegar.

We ordered their Taiwanese Chicken Claypot, Chinese Fried Donuts (4 pcs), and Prawn and Chinese Sausage Fried Rice. We started off with the fried rice and the chicken claypot, enjoying it in its dry form (non-soup form). It was very flavoursome thanks to the sauce, which went well paired with the rice. The claypot was filled with herbs and lots of garlic cloves – which if you see don’t throw them away. Plus there was lots of sticky sauce at the base of the claypot for the soup when you are ready for it.

The Chinese Fried Donuts came out pipping hot, but I was a tad disappointed by the size of the donut (these they were half the usual size of these donuts) and the fact that there were only four on a plate. Although they were really crunchy and were satisfying to enjoy.

Once we were satisfied with the dry form, we were able to request either spicy or non-spicy chicken soup stock to be poured into the claypot for a yummy soup. (This is why it’s important to leave all the garlic pieces in the claypot.) The soup created a delicious soup and changed the whole experience around.

You can order a bunch of stuff to chuck into the hot pot. Plus they turn on the portable gas stove to keep the soup hot and delicious.

Overall the dinner came to $67 for the Taiwanese Chicken Claypot ($42), Chinese Fried Donuts (4 pcs for $6), and Prawn and Chinese Sausage Fried Rice ($19), plus a 1.5% surcharge for paying using a card.

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