The Red Pot (Garden Grove)

[momopi]

The Red Pot
12119 Brookhurst St
Garden Grove, CA 92840
(714) 636-7168 http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-red-pot-garden-grove

$20/person all you can eat.  2-4 persons can order 2 different soup base, and 5 guests can order 3 different soup base (no extra charge).  Be warned that their "heavy" soup base is salty, so I recommend 1 heavy and 1 clear soup.  We had the spicy medicinal and regular medicinal, both were kinda heavy.

The order slip they give you have 3 rounds, but you can order additional servings beyond 3rd round.  I highly recommend being careful with your 1st round, because they give you the largest servings in round 1.  So don't get too much fish/meat balls on your 1st order, get the sliced meats and quail eggs instead.

 

[kinetics]

This place is legit.  Between this place and Gen in Tustin, I'm in AYCE heaven for only $20.

Nice pics.  DSLR?

 

[irvinehomeowner]

Nice pics.  DSLR?

... or iPhone 4S?

 

[ps99472]

Looks pretty good for AYCE...  need to do some damage here soon... maybe this weekend... prices are the same regardless? 

If I drive out in that directions.. I might as well eat at my last meal on earth place... Trieu Chau, haven't been in years...

 

[momopi]

iPhone 4S with "Genius" camera app.

I have issues with the default iPhone camera app and downloaded a few to play with.  Camera+, Genius, ProCamera, PictureShow, Fotolr, etc.  They're usually free or cost only $1.

I also paid for the app "up", which made it much easier for me to batch upload directly from phone to Picasaweb.  This app has 800x600 res upload option that's missing from Picasa.

 

[ps99472]

Didn't know they open at 3pm on weekdays, so had to kill 2hrs in GG, even harder because we were fasting hard for AYCE.  End up at brodards to chow down on some nem nuong cuon but of course that messed up our appetite.  Anyways came back at 3pm to do some damage, soup stock is like momopi said, heavy/salty.  I think this flavor is like little sheep?  The chinese herbal medicine smell is strong, like smacking into someone's sweaty underpits when u first walk thru their door.  I wish they use some sort of herbal bag or spice metal ball container thing for the herbs, it's so easy to accidentally eat a "herb" and ruin ur taste palette for a few minutes.  Flavor is strong, and after cooking in the herbal broth  u dont really need to dip into satay, which makes it too salty.  Beef was ok, pork was more tender, liked the tofu skin and spinach.  I realize their strategy is salty soup, salty sauce, drink water/soda, refill drinks, get full off water.  Funny how the plates get smaller and smaller with each round, if u order a sixth round of beef, it'll probably be only 1 slice roll.  They are obsessedly good at refilling ur water cup.