General Pot

A great fun place to have a enticing meal. I love spicy food！I love the way that I can build and choose my personal way of a spicy pot！So，finger licking and delectable！Some beer with it、that is just heavenly marvelous！I just love this place！

First off — this is a pretty authentic Chinese food place. If you’re coming here to be wined and dined and be pampered (even a little), you might want to adjust your expectations, and probably head somewhere else. If you love to eat, and don’t really mind as long as the flavors and taste is killer — keep reading.
General Pot’s specialty is a somewhat-​rare dish called Chinese Dry Pot. Basically, it’s like hotpot but dry. Like when you take something liquid and dry it out (see: raisins), the flavors become super-​strong, and can really pack a punch. If you like Chinese spicy, this is a good indicator: the top level of spiciness they serve here translates to «Injury Spiciness». Yes.
We’ve come here on a crowded Friday and also on quiet weekdays. Each time, the pot itself will take between 10 – 15 minutes, which is pretty decent. We’ve only added a few vegetables, but I would guess that their extensive list of add-​ons is pretty handy — adding extra meats or food shouldn’t add too long to the order.
They’ll serve your pot on top of a butane burner, and generally set it so that it’ll keep cooking — pretty hot — I recommend you let it cook, but turn it off a couple minutes after it’s served, unless you like literal fire in your mouth.
They also provide kids’ plates and utensils if you’re borderline irresponsible parents like myself and bring your 1−2−3 year old to a restaurant where they’ll be within 1ft of open flame. Thankfully, the tabletops are well spaced and pretty big, so that there’s no REAL danger. Just that you may be judged by other store customers.
But really, who cares — it’s amazing hot pot, and you’ll get more than enough with 1 order to fill 4 people up. Or 2 people for 2 days. Worth it!

I came here more than 10 times during the pass 2 – 3 years, The food here is good. A little pricy but the pot is really good.
Pros:
Good spicy food
Unlimited rice refill
Guy owner very friendly and care about his business
Cons:
A little pricy on the side stuff you order to put in the pot, it is really not much, by not much I mean around 5 pieces.
Female owner/​waitress, well… sigh, my recommendation is just enjoy the food.

Warning: Horrible customer service!!! Don’t come here thinking you’ll be greeted with a smile… Let’s face it, you should be honored that she (hostess/​server) is even willing to open her restaurant for you to eat at.
Other than the horrible service, the food is so so good!!! We ordered the spare rib dry pot with no add ons and also the noodles with braised beef. The noodles seem homemade, it’s so delicious… and the broth is just so yummy! The ribs came with bean sprouts, black fungus, celery, and potatoes. It’s spicy!!! Even at a mild level it was spicy.
I would come more often if only the server didn’t look like I owed her the world the entire time I was eating there.

This place is so delicious. We order the dry pot. We order spare ribs, shrimps and your choice of veggies and we added some crab meat and potatoes. The server was great. The fried rice was also good. I will definitely come here again. This place get really pack so be ready for the wait. Plenty of parking. They accept credit card and cash. It’s little expensive but it is worth it.

We gave it five stars because they really made closely authentic Chinese food. The portion was big enough for three to share! We had the catfish and added crab stick. Will visit back whenever I crave for dry pot.

This is just a review about the service: it was SO BAD that we didn’t even end up eating here. First they forgot about us and took others’ orders who had come in after us. When we informed the lady server to take our order, she had the rudest tone. We had a couple of questions for her and she didn’t even answer them properly. Instead she just pressured us to choose a dish as soon as possible. No «how are you» no «thank you», it was one of the most unpleasant experiences I’ve ever had. We left after this horrible service because we didn’t think we were welcome.

DO NOT OPEN ON MONDAY!!!
Unilocal did not update the operation hours accordingly. I drove like 30 minutes to get here! :(

Authentic dry pot. My friend and I shared one pork rib pot plus extra veggies, portion is just about right for two of us.

I don’t know what happened. We were seated right away during a normal dinner time rush.
The waiter was friendly enough to help us order since it was our first time here.
After the order was put in, we waited for our food for 40+ minutes. During that time, a table in front of us finished paying, the wait staff cleaned the table, a new family sat and ordered, and they got their food and ate for 10 minutes before we walked out.
When we asked two people about our food, one walked right past us without acknowledging us and the other who took our ordered ran off telling us «hold on». Only when we were out the door did they suddenly give us any attention.
I’ll take my business elsewhere, thank you very much.

Not impressed with this place. Ordered General made spicy chicken wings lunch special. The entrée came with steamed rice and soup. The soup was hot but not much flavor. The entrée as you can see in the picture had waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy too many dry chillies. Dry chillies without the seeds. If that many chillies had all the seeds that dish would have been fiery hot.
Basically had 4 to 5 pieces of wings small in size cut into 2 pieces each. The dish was around 9 bucks expected better.
Bottom line will not be visiting again. Sorry

Dry Hot Pots! Can you believe that?
Excited and curious I went into this place with a couple friends. Wow I was blown away by such kind of Chinese food. The food is definitely spicy, but you can still taste the goodness of the entire pot.
I would say that this place targets younger crowds as it provides satisfying portion (2 – 3 adults per pot is way more than enough!) with a decent price. This is definitely on my list when I’m craving for spicy Chinese food again.
Again, not the traditional Sze-​Chuan spicy Chinese food you’ve experienced, but you will be impressed.
Cheers!

General Pot specializes in Dry Hot Pots. It’s good with large groups when you can order a bunch of ingredients all mixed in a big pot. It’s pretty economical especially for students. General Pot is filled with young people. There are other things on the menu but the main dish is the Gan Guo. We had the beef Gan Guo with a bunch of other items in it. The whole pot is way too much for two people. You can choose your level of spicyness.
Service is good. Plenty of parking.

Be aware, when it states Spicy, it IS spicy. The chefs here loves their chilli peppers & they mean business when it comes down to using it in their dishes.
We underestimated this place & opted for the «hot» level for our Shrimp General Pot. Oh boy, did we regretted it. We were too busy sweating bullets and crying mercy to enjoy our meal, BUT would def love to give it another try next time.
The General Pot was piled with beans sprouts, mushrooms, carrots so you don’t need to order that many ingredients. We got shrimps, pea sprouts along w it and it was enough food for 4 ppl.
We also got the spicy pork– and again, if you can’t handle level 3 at tapioca express for popcorn chicken, you should definitely pass on this dish! but it was definitely good tho.
We tried counting the peppers & I lost count after 50.

I forgot how I stumbled upon this place, but it is easily one of my favorite Chinese restaurants at the moment. A couple visits in, I realized the manager looked really familiar. It was then I realized that I had met him almost a year ago at AT&T and he had given me his name-​card to promote his new restaurant… General Pot! I guess it was fate that I would fall in love with this place.
Rating Breakdown:
²⁄₂ Stars for Taste –
OK several disclaimers here. I don’t eat super spicy. I’ve never had their dry hot pot. Wow. A lot of the other reviews focus on the dry pot, but let me tell you, their other dishes are not shabby either. If you order anything on the menu and you see that it has Chinese celery, cilantro, and is covered in red chilies, it’s going to be delicious. I highly recommend the cilantro beef and the cold noodles as an appetizer. I don’t know what’s in that tangy red chili sauce, but it is what’s CRACK-​A-​LACKIN’!
You also can’t leave without trying their sauteed pig intestines. It comes in a dry hot pot, but the smaller plate ($ 9.99) is totally enough for me. It has a slow spiciness that builds! The crispy outside and the chewy inside has you gasping for more… or is that the spice? If I ever were to try a dry hot pot, it would be with the intestines, hands down.
The crispy tofu dish is also amazing. The fried tofu comes smothered with a minced meat sauce. It goes great with rice. In fact, everything here goes great with rice because the dishes tend toward the salty side. I love that, but others may not.
¹⁄₁ Stars for Value –
At around $ 10 a dish, not bad for authentic Chinese food, especially with the large portion sizes. We usually spend about $ 12 – 15 dollars per person, but we end up taking boxes home. The dry hot pot is usually $ 15 – 20, but it can feed up to 4 people easily when paired with one or two other dishes.
¹⁄₁ Stars for Customer Service –
One time, my sister and I came specifically for the intestines. When we ordered, the lady informed us that the intestines wouldn’t be ready for another hour or so. The devastation must have been written all over our faces because she apologized, back away from our table, and gave us a moment to re-​think our order. When we came back the next time, she saw us and immediately reassured us that there was intestine that day. Also, they get that star just for putting up with my Dad’s Dad jokes. Ugh. haha
Bonus Star because I cannot get enough of this place! I come more than once a month, for sure. I dream about those intestines and cold noodles. Mmm… maybe I should head over for dinner.

Surprisingly good service for Chinese restaurant. Dry pot was definitely different and worth a try, very large quantities of food

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Fantastic spicy food, do yourself a favor. Go check it out. Please bring your friends cause the portion there is more than generous. Make sure you get the chilled qongdao beer to go with the spicy food.
Supet fast service. Clean environment. The ower is super cute and funny :)

Came here on a Monday around 2:30−3PM. Mom and I were walking around the area to find a place to eat, but this was the only one opened since all the other restaurants around close between lunch and dinner.
It was eerily empty and quiet, but we were welcomed and seated right away. Mom ordered some stir-​fried noodles with vegetables and I ordered spicy beef mixed with onions and bell peppers. Both were pretty mediocre, nothing special, but a little on the greasy side. They did forget the soup for my lunch special meal, but I wasn’t too bothered to ask.
Probably won’t come here again with all the other options around the area.
Lesson learned: come before 2:30 so you aren’t forced to eat at the only restaurant still opened past 2:30PM.

I’ve never had dry hot pot before, but wow its sooo good! A lot of people around 8pm when we came, but still a couple of empty tables.
The three of us shared an order of the duck meat dry hot pot and added on intestines, eggs, and tofu. OMG so yummy! Medium spicy was good enough for me, my stomach was warm after a few hours of eating it.
We also ordered the chicken and corn soup, which was very good as well.
$ 16 per person wasn’t bad and we finished everything. The portion was ok that we weren’t overly stuffed.
I am looking forward to coming back here!

This review is not for their dry hot pots, as they’re pretty much all really spicy and I don’t really eat spicy food (my parents, who are China natives and are avid spicy eaters, say that the dry hot pots are pretty good though).
I like the feel of this medium-​sized restaurant. It’s clean, casual, and the menus are adorable. The only thing I would watch out for is that it can get really loud in here, as a lot of younger people come here in groups to eat hot pot. They also have the tv turned up really loud sometimes, and there’s always some Chinese drama or show on.
The tea here is your normal tea bagged tea, which was a little disappointing because I was hoping they would at least have loose-​leaf, but the flavor wasn’t bad. The waitress was even nice enough to change the tea bag for us after our third refill because the flavor was fading. Service here was a little slow, but the waiters and waitresses are pretty nice and attentive.
Sweet, sour, and spicy potato appetizer with slivers of cucumber:
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I only had a bite of this chilled dish because I don’t really eat spicy food, but it’s not incredibly spicy as there is only a bit of chili flakes scattered throughout. The potato and cucumber slivers are mostly mixed with white vinegar, sugar, and some other spices. This was really good, incredibly refreshing, and light. My mom (who is super duper picky about Chinese food) even liked it!
Loofah squash with fish gluten puffs:
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If you’ve never had fish gluten puffs, they’re basically gluten puffs with fish paste stuffed inside. I liked this dish. It was light, flavorful, and not too sticky. I really dislike it when chefs put a lot of potato starch in after the vegetables are cooked so that there’s seemingly less juice; it all just turns to this sticky, gelatinous mess that clings to the vegetables and makes them taste so heavy and soggy. The loofah squash was cooked well, tender but not soggy, and the fish gluten puffs are some of the best I’ve had.
Stir-​fried large pea sprouts:
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Large pea sprouts are some of my favorite vegetables, so I’ve had them at a lot of places. This wasn’t the best I’ve had, but it’s not the worst either. The pea sprouts themselves were a little tough, but the cook on them was nice, not too oily and not too overcooked. A good dish if you’re looking for some simple, healthy vegetables.
Spicy stir-​fried lamb:
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I didn’t actually try this, but my dad (who grew up eating traditional spicy food) said that it was the best dish of the night. If you don’t like the gamey taste of lamb, you can also replace the meat with beef, but the cook and pairing will be the same.