黄记煌 Simmer Huang LA

It's a mix between steaming and boiling -- in Chinese it would be a "steamy pot". I don't recommend the shrimp, they put it in a bit early and it gets a little overcooked. Probably for food safety reasons. But the fish, cuttlefish, and frog are amaaaazing.

Service is nice and courteous, definitely one of those places you can take your non Chinese friends, as a Chinese person.

Simmer in and have an amazing dinner or lunch from simmer Huang! We had the best amazinnnnn service where we had a wonderful server cooked everything for you and the secret was def in the sauce. We had mild spice and it was still quite spicy!

I would def will be back!

If you would like to try some special and some fresh, just come here! Normally I would like to order the fish pot!

Service: Poor. Entered and wasn't acknowledged for 10 minutes despite making eye contact with multiple employees. One of who just walked away twice when he saw us waiting. When someone finally came over, they seated us at a 4 person table despite telling them we had 5. They didn't even pull up an extra chair, we had to do that ourselves. We ordered after finally flagging someone down and asked for two more sets of plates and utensils. They never brought them over so we had to grab them from another table. We constantly had to flag someone down despite it being pretty empty. The workers were seen hanging around with each other on their phones in a far corner.

Food: Pretty good. We had the surf and turf with classic sauce and hand pull noodles. The sauce was flavorful and had a kick of heat which was really nice. When you finish the food, they add broth to the pot and it becomes a soup. I wasn't a fan of the latter half of it. It just tasted like watered down stew. They also didn't cook it at our table because of our seating arrangement. Our 5th person was seated in front of the heat controls, so we didn't get the whole experience. The hand pulled noodles was interesting to see done but didn't add much to our soupy sauce.

Overall experience was not great. I personally would not come back because of the poor service. It ruined the entire dinner experience.

This is a Beijing royal style simmer pot which they cook the pot kinda like dry pot but you will see the entire process from the table. The sauce is passing is a hundred years old recipe that use to cook for the royal family of Chinese emperor. They had variety diff meat and also the best part is the dancing noodle.