Lion Pavilion Hot Pot

Service attitude is bad, mandatory to tip.
And bad health, vegetables there are flies.
Because you are Chinese, so give them a chance!

Hot Pot soup is good but the meat is not so fresh. But I don’t care, it’s much better than 99

It took me so long to finally try out this place but I’m glad I did! I rly enjoyed eating here overall. It doesn’t have as many selections as most hotpot restaurants but the broth is great. We got medium spicy but my mouth was on fire after a while! & The regular broth didnt have that strong herbal taste to it which I personally dont care for. So this was awesome.
Service is attentive, they’re always on point to refill your glass or clear away the empty plates for you.
My only downside which is pretty big to me is that their veggies aren’t fresh. At all. Vegetables play a vital part in hotpot. You can’t just have meat and noodles and be done. So it was a shame that we couldnt eat it. The leaves were limp and turning brown with those little fruit flies in their midst. Total letdown and it cost me my appetite once I saw it. But before that, I was enjoying my meal.

Service itself was terrible. Server was rude, you called on them other than ordering food, they will ignore you. The food other than beef slice, everything else was «Okay» but really wasn’t happy with the service.
Two star was for the bathroom, it was pretty clean.

I am actually from Sichuan. I was so surprised the rating was so low. I tried it Last Saturday with my friend. We both loved it!!! I tried many places and this one is absolutely the most authentic one. even put it in China this is a very good hotpot place.
I saw someone who pretended to be a hotpot lover compared lion pavilion with little sheep. I feel speechless… come on!! u really know what is hotpot ?!
If u r from Sichuan or love Sichuan hotpot I can’t recommend this place more. very authentic very great. ask them to add ox oil to make it a real Sichuan hotpot journey.
Tips: they have pig brain. guys from Sichuan and chongqing… u know it

Went there on a rainy night & it was pretty busy. The waiter could have been friendlier. The food was pretty good. The bathroom was clean.

Hotpot is one of those foods I am never tired of eating. Little sheep on 37^th avenue is one of my favorite places to eat but can get a bit pricey with their a la carte menu. However, I always leave with a full stomach and am very satisfied with everything.
Lion Pavilion on the other hand leaves your wallet empty, belly hungry, and is disappointing. Their prices are higher than that of other local hotpot places and the portions are so small. The restaurant itself is small and it is hard to accommodate larger parties. I went with my family (total of 6 of us) and squeezed uncomfortably in a small booth, clearly for four people. There was a bigger table but it was already occupied.
Onto the food. We ordered the half spicy/​half mild pot, a bunch of meats, veggies, and noodles. I didn’t like that they charge you by head. I think it was around $ 3−4/person for just the hotpot soup.
We didn’t really like their spicy soup base especially since there was a thick layer of oil on it. That combined with the super fatty beef screams heart attack at the dinner table. In all my years of eating hotpot, I have never gotten such unappetizing fatty beef before. We ordered regular beef but it was more than 70% fat (totally inedible). When we asked the waiter, he told us that this is the beef they have. We also ordered lamb which was better but not great. It has a gamey taste unlike the lamb from little sheep which doesn’t have that taste at all.
In the end, the bill for the 6 of us was around $ 260 with tax and tip. My parents were hungry an hour later and ate beef noodles. In short, save your money, walk across the parking lot and go to little sheep Mongolian hotpot. Your belly and wallet will thank you.

Many people don’t know this restaurant actually is a chain restaurant of the most famous/​oldest hot pot restaurant in Chengdu, Sichuan where hot pot is famous for. The restaurant has over 30 years history in Chengdu and everyone in Sichuan knows it.
That being said, I was very happy they opened in NY because most so called Sichuan hotpot restaurant aren’t spicy enough. I went there twice since it opened and I have to say they made some changes to fit customers. Most Chinese can’t eat as spicy as Sichuanese and they can’t eat pig’s Brain or cow’s throat. So the restaurant took those out from menu, so as many other authentic Sichuanese food.
I wish they didn’t have to change anything to fit customers in NY, but I understand they have to adjust and survive. I will always support this place because they are real.

I cannot believe it is rated below three stars. i enjoy the food here during my travel in ny this holiday. i live in boston and have been to about 6 hot pot restaurants in Boston (肥牛, 泛亚，小熊熊，小绵羊…). In other words every hot pot i can find in boston. i can safely say this hot pot is better than every one of them. First their white soup 底料 is very special and tastes very good. Hot pot soup in other restaurants are too light and contain only water. They offer all kinds of sauce you may want from self-​service table which is another reason i love it. Beef is very fresh here but lamb tastes a little hard. i pay about $ 20 for single person, so i think it belongs to $$ categary not $$$

New hot pot restaurant with tons of potential but it still fell short.
Ambiance: Cute decorations suitable for the holidays but horrible inappropriate music. During my visit they played IDFWU by Big Sean and Nicki Minaj all uncensored with my ten year old sister sitting next to me. The music detracts from the friendly atmosphere.
Cleanliness: overall pretty clean, but there were some flies hanging around by the sauce station that found their way to our table.
Service: Very slow, my parents suspect it’s because of poor management and organization. The kitchen staff kept peering out at us the entire time and I felt highly uncomfortable. The staff didn’t look over our table to clear plates or refill water. However, the food came pretty quickly (granted, we came at a slow time)
Also, when we notified the waiter that our corn platter was rotten, he took no action and argued with us that their ingredients were good. Who does that?
Miscellaneous: the plates were too small. The soup bowls we were given were too small to place any of the hot pot ingredients in.
AND NOW FOR THE FOOD
Soup: the spicy base is actually pretty good. Very spicy but doesn’t have the typical spices that would be thrown into a hotpot in flushing (no cardamom, spice balls that would usually be found). The clear white base was subpar at best. It wasn’t aromatic and tasted extremely bland. Not very impressed with the white base.
The ingredients: not very fresh at all. The corn pieces were tiny (and we were given a rotten piece). The udon we ordered came in a frozen block and came out rubbery and sad. The meat were all fatty and were cut too thick.
The sauce bar: the most redeeming quality of the place. Crushed peanuts were something I haven’t seen before, very happy about this. Many options and good choices. In addition to soy sauce, I was happy to see sesame paste, chive paste, chili powder and chili paste.
Overall: Okay food, bad service, good sauce bar that barely makes up for the bad white soup base.

Their beef came with deep blue veins, they look absolutely gross. The service is terribly horrible. i never expect good service from restaurants in Flushing, but i never thought the staff would answer our questions with rolling eyes.
We had a party of 6, and none of us felt Lion Pavilion has any specialty in their spicy pot; and we dont see anything that differs from other hotpot places on their menu. Mala beef and white pot base are okey, but def not on our list for next hotpot.

The spicy soup base is amazing. So far the best Sichuan style hotpot in NY. All the ingredients are fresh and the varieties that you can choose from are standard. I don’t have problem with the service today because it’s not a busy day for them. Overall it is definitely a good place to go if you like spicy hotpot.

Came here the other night… It was a terrible mistake!!! Every one in the group had such bad stomachache, never again !!!

Hot pot was very authentic, especially the hot base, very spicy and Sichuan favor. Food was fresh, little expensive. Fried pork and bang bang chicken is a bad choice, don’t chose them.

Reasonable price and reasonable food, authentic cheng du style famous hot pot, those who didnt like it or leave bad review are probably not used to this type of food/​restaurant. This is not your regular hotpot buffet.
Waiters were nice to us, attentive, polite.
Me and my wife had a great time. We went at 2pm it was not busy.
4 star because AC was not High enough, a little bit hot. The steams couldnt go no where.
Spent 65 $ w/​tips for 2 people.

The pot base is really decent. Best spicy base around this area.
Has some traditional dishes that other place do not.
The one star loss is for a bit high price and narrow place.

R! POFF…
service is bad, I dont like how they try to play game with their customer. food is not as good as other places. they don’t have chicken slices. roe fishball. Item priced bit higher here. I noticed their soup pot is smaller, and harder to p! ck food out with small size pot… yeah I will never come back spend money here. while I order I try to order as little as possible.. R! poff
note: I tried to order fatty beef, omg this place is so cheap they basically serve me 80% fat fattybeef slice. I told them I don’t like that. Then I switched to higher priced beef… rip off. they try to be tricky saying, o you like fatty beef. this is what we have. all I want to say is I had fatty beef in my life for years, which only contain around15% fat on beefslices. if it is more than 15% that fattybeef is Nogood.
people go to local supermarket, take a good look at all kinds of beautiful hotpot beef slices no fuck! ng beef slice come with 80% fat. I really don’t like how they try to play me.

Mainland Chinese hot pot chain.
Food is decent. Service is friendly. The workers are not experienced, but they are friendly.
The space is just too small for that many tables. Someone is always trying to squeeze by you making it uncomfortable. If you do eat here, make sure you get a table that isn’t down the center aisle. They bring their supplies through here, where each time you have to move your cart. The layout was very poorly designed, or they need to remove some tables.
Also, the food is pricey. It was $ 60 for the 2 of us, and we didn’t order that much even. You are better off going to Minnie’s shabu or one of the other hot pot places for half the price, and more comfortable seating.

It is a newly opened hot pot place. Grand opening will have 10% off for your order. That is not too bad but you have to wait for a line to be seated. Their operation is a little bit under crisis due to high crowd into the restaurant.
Spicy broth is above the average but the neutral broth is very mediocre. Beef meat and lamb meat are fresh cut but The portion is not that great. Don’t be surprised about.

I always have a mixed feeling of Chinese hot pot restaurants, this new place is no exception.
Opened on 8/​31, this place is entirely new. The business claimed their interior design is one of a kind — the table is in green glass and the interior color is yellow — I don’t see the ambience or setting is too attractive.
Hot pot base — 4. I ordered the dual hot pot base (original + spicy). I really love the spicy one because I totally love the feeling of getting my tongue numb! It tastes different than other spicy soup bases from Little Sheep or other well known hot pot places. Highly recommend spicy soup base.
Dipping sauce: dipping sauce bar is self service. I cant say it is perfect but it has a good selection.
Food — 3.5: most of ingredients are fresh, but the portion of some orders are incredibly small. For example, we ordered the wide glass noodles in small portion. What comes is really small — maybe just 5 pieces.
Service — 2: service is always a headache for most Chinese restaurants. I’m assuming this place is new, the staff is learning how to do good customers service and run the operations of the restaurant. When our table asked for water, the staff told us to get them ourselves, but the water is running out. When we asked for napkins, the staff told us to get them ourselves. When we asked for extra glasses for the juices, the staff told us to finish the water and pour the juices because they are running out of glasses. When the busser brought dishes, she was complaining she was super tired. When we asked what kind of meat was served, the lady who was serving is like I don’t know… I mean I don’t blaim them because they are new and I can tell they are good kids. When I come back next time I probably would rate this higher.
Tips: their meat has a good portion, but other ingredients vary.
In grand opening, they have 10% off.