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]]>At Par Par Hotpot, you can start by choosing from three delectable base soups: the rich and nourishing Par Par’s Special Collagen, the fiery and aromatic Mala, or the tangy and invigorating Tom Yum. The menu offers a tempting array of meats, seafood, and veggies on an a la carte basis, ensuring you can customize your meal to your heart’s content.
Complement your hotpot experience with a selection from five distinct sauces, including zesty seafood sauce, tangy tamarind sauce, and a hot spicy sauce that will surely tantalize your taste buds.
The ambiance at Par Par Hotpot is equally captivating, adorned with beautiful sakura flowers that create the perfect backdrop for capturing unforgettable moments and turning them into cherished memories.
Beside One Stop Mart, Baby City Entrance, Myanmar Culture Valley Ground Floor, Yangon
09 889 977857
9 am – 9 pm
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Beauty in the Pot has all the staples of a good quality Chinese hot pot chain (which is to be expected as its from Singapore’s Paradise Group). The restaurant was buzzing but not raucous (in Mandarin we would say ‘renao’) with pleasant chatter and scented steam emanating from each table.
As I sat down, I ticked off my mental hot pot check list. Large hot pot in the middle, which can be split into two small hot pots. (I am not a fan of the personal hot pot which seem in vogue in Yangon). Good quality crockery. Large chopsticks for dipping and plucking, a spoon for soup, a slotted spoon for tricky extractions and an elongated sieve for noodles. Beauty in the Pot charmed me almost immediately by supplying paper bibs and little plastic bags for your phone—both necessary precautions for an enthusiastic hotpotter like me.
The restaurant won my heart with its dipping station. (For the uninitiated, part of the hot pot experience is to create your own dipping sauce which you can coat items in between being cooked in the hot pot and entering your mouth). This station was well-stocked with soy, vinegar, oils, coriander, chilli, sha cha, sesame and well-maintained (read: Clean).
I opted for two soups. The slightly bizarrely-named collagen-rich pot was rich from pork cartilage and featured delicious pieces of silky tofu. The ‘mala’ spicy broth was packed with Sichuan peppercorn, chili, red dates, wolfberries, ginseng, dang gui, dang shen. You can choose the spiciness on a scale from one to three chilis.
In diligence to you, dear reader, I ordered as broad a selection as possible of items to dunk in my pot. The vegetables were packed with flavor, the meat (I had Australian beef and pork) was fresh and needed only minimal cooking, the restaurant’s signature meat paste was lightly flavored with white pepper and once cooked it took on just the right amount of the broth’s flavor.
The dumplings were very good as well, a light tang from the garlic shoots with the pork and a delightfully slippery skin. The hand-pulled la mian noodles were also exceptional. The meatballs were all fresh and very tasty—in particular the squid. The taro should also be mentioned as a must-order item.
Everything, therefore, was pretty much perfect until, dramatic pause, I found out there was no dessert option. Not even a fruit plate. Though we were handed a refreshing crushed ice lime beverage.
This would not stop me from coming back, when I get that hot pot yearning, however. It remains my favorite hot pot experience so far. The food was good across the board. The service was diligent (offering demonstrations and advice on cooking times), at times to the point of being a little over-enthusiastic.
You can expect to pay a little more than you might anticipate for the privilege, however, and should allocate around 20,000-30,000 kyats per head. If you think it’s a little pricey and are flexible with when you hot pot, take advantage of their lunch menu and late-night deal (20 percent off between 10 pm and 1 am).
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]]>Decorated in modern setting with yellow lighting, giving warm feeling, one side of the wall is painted with waterfall image. We might be familiar of hotpot as a sharing meal, but at Jin Hotpot, each person will get one’s own individual pot and a normal and USB sockets to charge your phone while having hotpot.
The menu is divided into main set, soup base, rice and noodle, vegetable, meat, and ingredients of hotpot. Do not be confused by it. If you order the meat set menu (from 11,800 for premium pork – 18,800 ks for seafood), in which you can order only one type of meat, the set comes with a vegetable plate, one type of soup, and a choice of rice or noodle without having to pay extra.
The set is suitable for one person. If you would like to share, there will be an extra charge of 4,000 ks/person.
For the first timer, we would like to recommend the premium pork set or rib eyes beef set for the meat with pork broth that will turn to be sweet once cooked. For the rice, you should try Taiwan Pork Rice, which is sautéed minced-pork in sweet sauce on top of rice.
Asides from the set, each order will get a small fried chicken served with chicken powder as a complimentary dish along with three kind of marinated sour vegetable as a side dish.
The main factor that sets Jin Hotpot from others is the varieties of fresh sauce. The star, for us, is the fresh sauce—Asian style, mixture of flavors with sour taste lead. The second favorite for us is the Thai style sauce, but if you prefer the simple ones, they also have soy sauce and vinegar.
For the drinks, Jin offers three unlimited drinks: water, sunflower juice, and punch. They will also serve you with infused water.
After the meal, we were served with 3 slices of lime coated with sugar as a dessert to help with your digestive system.
Address: G16-17, Asia Business Center, Maha Bandula Road (Between 47th and 48th Street), Yangon 11161
Phone: 09961646779
Opening hours: 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.
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]]>What It Is – If you’ve lived in Asia, you’ve probably had your fill of hotpot… several times. Yangon has its fair share of places offering a wide variety of ingredients cooked in their signature version of steaming hot soup. So while Shwe Mate with its concept of spicy Thai hotpot is nothing new in town, there are a couple of reasons that make it worthwhile to particularly choose this option.
Atmosphere – The clean and modern the restaurant is on display for the neighborhood with a wall dedicated to window. Shwe Mate advertises in Burmese so there’s less expats here compared to Yaw Min Gyi hotpot competitors. Standard furniture, the friendly staff make an effort so you feel welcome.
Recommendations – The evening started with 2 appetizers: Sour spare ribs and ham & cheese spring rolls. Both dishes were tasty and well crafted, especially the spare ribs had a nicely balanced sour-savory marinade. What made the dishes less suitable as an appetizer for us, was the fact that both were deep fried. We liked the taste, but were more reminded of a 5am after-party meal, rather than a light entry to a meal. 
We ordered several items, meat, seafood and vegetables. The main distinction to our other hotpot experiences was that all the products looked very fresh, while in other hotpot places it shows that they have been sitting around for a while. The highlight was the local beef, which we actually only ordered to finish off before dessert, but we were very positively surprised. The meat was very juicy and marinated in a delicious sesame-based sauce. Definitely something that everyone should order and that justifies the trip to Shwe Mate. The Australian beef also looked very premium, but we might have cooked it a bit too long, which made it a bit dry. We also liked the chicken meatballs, which stood out by having the meat be the strongest taste component, while elsewhere they typically taste like many other things apart from chicken. All the other items were standard for a hotpot meal, but again won us over with their freshness.
The soup and sauces are undoubtedly the most distinguishing elements of hotpot places. Shwe Mate offers 2 types of soups – their special house soup and a spicy Tom Yum Soup. The house soup goes very well with all the ingredients, not having a too strong taste, but still adding delicious flavor to all items. The Tom Yum soup is also very tasty and extremely spicy, even for trained, native Southeast Asian palates, so try it with caution.
Along with the soup, we were served with 3 types of sauces: A Shwe Mate peanut-based spicy sauce, original Thai hot and bean curd- based sauces. As can be expected in a Thai style place, all 3 sauces are rather spicy. We liked the peanut-based sauce best, which went especially well with the meats.
As dessert we had a brownie with vanilla ice creams. The brownie was a bit too sweet for us after a relatively heavy meal, however, it provided a nice finish for our evening.
Shwe Mate also offers original Thai Ice Milk Tea and Ice Green Tea which are otherwise hard to find in Yangon.
Final Thoughts – While Shwe Mate is not the fanciest new Yangon restaurant, it is a good option for a casual dinner or lunch frequently mainly by a local crowd. The service is quick and good, prices are very reasonable.
Shwe Mate Hot Pot and Restaurant is a Thai style hot pot restaurant serving our own recipe with various items to choose. It also serves appetizers and grilled food to add better appetite to our customers.
Shwe Mate also has a rooftop bar on third floor wth a nice view.
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