Mo-Mo-Paradise

Excellent packaging and presentation for the to-go orders during quarantine.

Finally had a chance to try out this new restaurant. Since its open, every time we try to put our names on the Yelp waiting list, there was always a 45 minute wait. Today, it was only 15 minutes. We decided to try it out. Just like Yelp's waiting list said, after we arrived, 15 minutes later, we were seated.

we were given two prices for Japanese Shabu Shabu lunch, one is $17. 50 for one soup base and $19.50 for two soup base. But if you check in on Yelp, you can get an upgrade to two soups base lunch paying only $17.50. The waiter explained to us that each person will be given two choices of meat and the vegetables, noodles and ice creams are AYCE (all you can eat ). The restaurant also provide all you can drink boba milk tea along with red beans ( my favorite).

Unlike the Chinese hot pot restaurants, the veggie choices are limited but good quality. In addition to vegetables, they have udon salads and Japanese curry rice which love. I must have devoured two bowls of curry rice. I was stuffed when I was done with lunch. You have to watch out how much you eat. I didn't realize that I ate more than three refilled of vegetable plates, two bowls of noodles and two bowls of curry rice. Got carried away this time. But I will be back for more next time.

Quality meat selection and service. If you get the soy sauce based soup and use an uncooked egg as a dip, a whole new world appears. The curry, rich in flavor, melted in my mouth. There are variety of drinks and boba, and the meal finishes off with an ice cream for dessert!

The quality of the meat is just okay for me. For the meat, it's not all you can eat. There are 2 kinds of beef and 1 kind of pork (for lunch). Each person has to pick 2 kinds of meat (can be all beef or 1 beef and 1 pork or all pork). Everything else is all you can eat and drink for the duration of 90 minutes total, which is reasonable. The curry tastes weird, not so much meat inside. The curry is not served hot enough either. The price is $17.95 for lunch per person. The server said that this price already includes tips, but not service charge, sounds weird? Right, you bet! At the end, I and my wife were charged 2 times 17.95 + 16% service charge and on top of that too, we got charged for the normal sales tax of 9.5%. We understand that we have to pay the sales tax the basic food charge, but why are they charging sales tax on the 16% service charge too? So, basically, I paid around 17.5% service charge, while the overall service was not that good..and it was a must! They responded, I paid for the service charge, but I didn't have to pay tips anymore...yeah whatever...

ABSOLUTE A+
I have severe food allergies. The owners were very accommodating and allowed me to bring my own broth. They have a farmers market set up for veggies, and variety of drinks. The staff is like a fast machine when keeping things sliced, stocked and very clean. This is worth every penny for such service and food quality. So glad they moved into the neighborhood.