A&J Hot Point Hot Pot

Yeah it closed down because it was unhealthy, lying to their customers, closing super early and unprofessional

Loved this place. Never had hot pot before but we were willing to try it after CALI NOODLES basically didn’t want to serve us.
Anyway, I ordered the curry base & it was yummy! All the fresh ingredients were great, especially the seafood. Definitely coming again. The Mom & Daughter servers were very helpful and walked me through my first hot pot experience.

I’ve been here several times because I like the style of food. They have a decent selection and it is all you can eat. I have been disappointed quite a few times sometimes they don’t have any sodas other times they don’t have chicken. The problem is they don’t tell you when you walk into the business they wait until you sit down and I have half your order picked out. Very disappointing perhaps they need a new manager, one who ensures they won’t run out of what makes a restaurant a restaurant: FOOD!!!

You come to this place for relatively cheap all you can eat hot pot. Personally I feel like the soup was just okay, my mom and I ordered the spicy and the so use special, in which it wasn’t super spicy.
The extra stuff like seafood and veggies were pretty decent. And the meat, we ordered lamb and beef, we’re pretty good.
Overall my experience was just okay, everything about this place was pretty mediocre. So as I said, I’d just come here when I want ayce hot pot, but am not looking for quality.

Terrible taste. Never come again!!! Terrible taste. Never come again!!! Terrible taste. Never come again!!! Terrible taste. Never come again!!! Terrible taste. Never come again!!! Terrible taste. Never come again!!! Terrible taste. Never come again!!! Terrible taste. Never come again!!!

Nothing is special. The soup is really light. Kinda best place of the staff because there is the only male staff and do all the thing he wants. The pork is weird like they left it in the freezer for a long period. So mad!

A&J Hot Point is my favorite hot pot place in the area. The price tag of buy one, get on free is hard to beat. The selection of raw meats, vegetables, and cooked foods is overwhelming. The service was excellent and I appreciate how they slice the meats on the fly. Anyone who complains about the food only has themselves to blame since they cooked it. I’m a fan of using a plate as a cooling station and cooking in small batches. The spicy broth is excellent.
Update: Tried to go here on 1÷24÷16. They’re closed forever. The restaurant is empty… like my stomach. My soul is sad.

Perfect place to come if you’re a gamblin’ man because this is the type of place you come if you want to roll the food poisoning dice.
All the meat seemed to be poor quality and very chewy. I can’t speak for the lamb because I didn’t try any.
I’m 98.69% certain that the rice is reheated from a previous day. There is a pile of trash blocking a doorway by the bathroom. Some of the items in the buffet trays look like they have been sitting all day long. Some of the «clean“dishes and tongs near the buffet trays have old dried up food stuck to them. I had to grab 5 different tongs before I found one without food stuck to them.
If snitches didn’t get stitches I would probably call the health inspector.
**2 stars instead of 1 because I like being able to get up and get my own unlimited vegetables from the bar instead of having to ask and wait. (The napa was pretty sandy though).

Such a wonderful experience here w the boyf. As soon as we walked in, the server explained to us the menu & how everything worked. She was very attentive throughout our meal & was very sweet. The food was awesome, I love the AYCE as well as the self serve part. Will definitely be back.

Tomorrow is my birthday and unfortunately I am sick. All i wanted was a bowl of soup. Never been here decided to try it.
I left my phone at home because I am trying to use it less and have less electricty flowing all the time. But dear lord, I wish I read the Unilocal reviews before coming.
This place was empty, which is always a bad sign and I cant believe I didnt listen to my gut.
Our waiter unfortunately didnt speak very well English. We have never hot potted before and for the first time I felt like an awkward white kid with culture shock. We sort of figured it out but, as my boyfriend said, the egg rolls have been sitting there for a week.
Once the broth was boiling we added our meat… He brought us pork and chicken even though we specifically ordered «chicken for both» and he heard «chicken and pork».
He returned to check on us white kids, and after tasting the soup I looked up, and told him it was bad and i cant eat it. Everything smelled like bad cheese, even the water glasses and chopsticks. He simply nodded and said «i know» and walked away.
There is clearly a language barrier. We were polite but couldnt eat much of the curry soup which started to burn and smell like burning rubber. It was the nastiest curry Ive ever had.
I cannot stress enough that this was the most overpriced lunch Ive ever (not) eaten.
The place is dirty and the food is gross. I’d eat phở or thai any day. Never ever again I will «hot pot» myself, or anyone I love.

Never coming to this place ever again. I should of heeded and listened to all the reviews.
Now I’m paying for it with the worst case of food poisoning!!!

It’s been a while since I’ve been here, but I’m sitting at 85c waiting for my car and thought I’d write a review.
Let me start off by saying that I love hotpot. Growing up in my household, my parents would make it at least once every 2 weeks, we’d invite family over and have a huge hot pot party. So I kinda know a bit about it.
This place seems a little dirty and not very well kept. There was a strange odor when we came in, but we just decided to ignore it and continue our dining experience with an objective attitude. The tables were a bit oily and greasy, I hate walking into a restaurant, sitting down and then getting up and leaving. I think it’s kinda rude, and it makes me feel horrible. The menu is a little confusing at first but I think it was $ 19.99 per person for AYCE hotpot. We got the original broth and the spicy one. The spicy broth was loaded with oil and it was very salty, I did taste a lot of the herbs that they put into it though. The original broth was overly salty as well. The meat, veggies and service were pretty good, but honestly I don’t think we’ll be back.

$ 19.99 for one person AYCE + $ 3.99 for soup base. Right now it’s BOGO free so $ 19.99 for two people-​definitely sufficient!
We ordered the hot and spicy broth in medium with beef and pork as meat entrees. You self serve buffet style all the veggies and toppings. They had a good selection of frozen seafood items: clams, mussels, fish cakes, calamari. Veggies such as Napa cabbage, bok choy, shiitake mushrooms, eggplant, sweet potato, etc .
Definitely a fun experience to try! Hot pot hits the spot on a rainy day or to cure hangovers.

This use to be my favorite place… Slowly went down the hole. Changed owners. Prices (charging for soup base???) changed meats and quality. Took away all the good side options.
No reason to spend $ 25 to eat here anymore.

They changed ownership and pricing :(
It used to be AJ Hot Point Hot Pot, but they took away the AJ part… pricing used to be $ 9.99 and NOW it’s $ 19.99 and each soup is $ 3.99…urgh…
Waitresses were friendly and attentive… Stuffed myself silly this time, but damn… Instead of paying maybe $ 40.00 for 3 ppl, it’s $ 35.00 extra more… not returning anymore :(

Can’t separate， that’s soooooo weirdest! Is there still in United States???
Is there only one interpretation? LOL

Eh… I give this place 2 stars instead of 1 because service was better than expected. Other than that, everything else was a disaster. The beef was super fatty and low quality so between myself and a friend, we only shared 2 plates. I saw the table across get lean meats which I would’ve much preferred but it was too late already.
Their food bar was disastrous. I hesitated before getting some fried rice (who gets rice at AYCE, but had to try) and holy crap it was hard and tasted like its been sitting there for hours. Oh it was also super oily.
The seafood section, tucked in the corner had some good choices like crab and shrimp but I was wary of their freshness, especially the clams which my friend gagged and spit out immediately.
In the middle of the food section, there’s a plate of this purple jelly. Its the most difficult thing to pick up with their provided tongs but it’s definitely not worth it, it tasted like the smell of Asian grandma made into a purple sugar water jelly.
Oh, all this for the hefty price of $ 20/​person for dinner and they also charge almost $ 4 additional/​person for soup base (s)
The total coming out of this place was $ 47.93 (2x$ 20 + $ 4 + tax) when the meal tasted like one of those $ 8.99 buffets

Ambiance \\ You will see RED when you walk in. No, literally, the chairs and tables are red. The lighting is dark so it makes it slightly difficult to see the hot pot buffet bar of items. There is plenty of seating but the chairs and tables feel a bit cold and uninviting. I think they were going for «hip» but instead the mis-​matched décor felt a bit confused.
Pricing \\ Dinner $ 19.99 AYCE. You pay $ 3.99 per soup base. My fiancé was sick, so we each got our own soup base in a split pot. This means $ 19.99 + $ 3.99 per person.
Food \\ In my opinion, A&J tries to do too much with what they offer and everything is just mediocre. Hot pot tends to be a bit expensive so the AYCE idea seems like a good idea, but the ingredients were just not up to par so I don’t think I will be coming back.
They have a hot pot buffet, divided into the types of items. There is a «cold food» section with random cold dishes — jello, pickled cucumber, pickled seaweed, cold mixed vegetables like broccoli and carrots. None of it looked appetizing so I skipped this section.
There is also a «hot foods» section with Americanized Chinese and American Food items like fried egg roll, fried rice, steamed bun, fried shrimp, random fried chicken strips. This was weird to me as I am not sure how fried chicken goes along with hot pot, and somehow, there was no steamed white or brown rice available. I tried the fried rice which was over fried, crunchy and stale. Ick. Also tried the eggroll which was filled with vegetable and was slightly soggy from being set out for so long. No dipping sauce available for the egg roll. Sigh.
Now, there are a few sections available with «hot pot ingredients.» Although I found some things I really liked like tofu skin and fish fillet, other items were not as great. The meat ball and fish balls were cut up and were not labeled clearly so I wasn’t sure if it was beef ball or pork ball I was getting. Also, for vegetables, there was plain lettuce, napa cabbage and spinach I believe but no other traditional hot pot greens available. Also, some hot pot items I usually like to order such as the yellow egg dumplings, rounded fish dumplings and enoki mushrooms were available. They had some shitake mushrooms I think that were sitting in this mushroom water but it looked sketchy so I didn’t take any.
The meats you order from your servers. We had chicken and beef. The meats were just ok… beef was a bit fatty but nothing memorable. Not the best cut of beef I’ve ever had but acceptable. Sauces are at a self serve station, nothing unique or impressive though.
One thing that I DID enjoy was the broth. I thought they were flavorful and well made.
Service \\ 5 stars for service, the employees here are really nice and check up on you frequently to see if you need anything.
Overall, for the price, I would rather go elsewhere. Although the soup bases were good, I think a lot of key hot pot ingredients are missing from the buffet bar, and somehow it just didn’t jive well with me.

From the beginning to the end i couldn’t in my right mind give them higher than a star, even though I really liked our server Letty.
We walked in and was placed at the front corner where there were barely any light, when handed the menu my man actually had to bring it to the light from outside to make out what was on the menu. Are we dining in the dark here?
Letty went to ask management if we can switch a table further towards the sauce area a table that seats about 5 to 6 people but i figured since it was about 9pm at night we wouldn’t be taking up a bigger parties table. Letty came back to us and said that management denied our request. Apparently a bigger group was on there way? Ill tell you now that «bigger» group that was supposedly coming never ever showed up! Personally I believed they probably didn’t want to clean up a bigger table?! Where is the customer service here?!!
Now on to ordering… We had ordered Combo A with split pot due to my vegetarian-​ism. The tomato broth were pretty good to start, but after awhile i realized MSG was probably added to make it taste better, since it was super salty afterwards. After about about half hour i realized a lot of my vegetable that I had checked was never brought out and my section was nearly empty.
So after bringing this to their attention it took them about 15 minutes before anything was brought out so when they finally did, the girl that went around pouring additional soup into peoples hot pot didn’t ask me prior and just poured the meat broth into my vegetarian tomato soup! SOOO… It literally took another 15 minutes plus before a new broth was brought back out! I was still hungry and had to just keep waiting…
It was just so frustrating! I don’t think there sauces are cleaned or might of been the broth cause i actually got pretty bad tummy ache the following day!

I was invited by a friend because they were in the know about the buy one get one free deal. There are three tiers of pricing: vegetable, meat and seafood. Cheaper by a couple dollars if you pay cash, so seafood is $ 19.99 cash. I’ve been to other hotpot places that are $ 10 but they are $ 10 for a reason, service sucks and you play diarrhea roulette.
The menu has a good selection of items so I went with seafood, the lobster caught my eye… but then as we were ordering they said lobster ran out. Strange since we were the first ones there during early dinner so maybe the restaurant doesn’t even order it any more?! Who knows they were out of the fish fillets too and some drinks flavors.
Don’t know what is up, but the tap-​water they serve tastes horrible, even with lemon it doesn’t help! Don’t drink it, order a $ 3 flavored milk tea instead it comes in a big mug and the milky flavor will help cool the spices in that spicy hotpot! There are many flavor options about 8 ranging from very mild and plain to numbing spice that will force you to eat slow.
The serve your own sauce buffet bar seems like a cool idea but wonder how germy things get after sitting out for so long. You can find bland pineapple slices and colorful shrimp chips as appetizers.
Staff was super friendly and brought items out in a good pace, but sometimes there would be items missing from the large metal basin if the you ordered too much stuff. Just asked for the missing items and they will bring them out on a smaller plate. I recommend getting the stuff that takes longer to cook like the big taro and daikon radish first. Also the sweet potato/​glass noodles are
our tabled ordered three orders of those, they cook quick and stay deliciously chewy.
They do have a stamp card, after visiting 10 times, one person gets 50% off the 11^th time.