Legend Pot

very nice place to hung out with friends, a bit pricer, but worth it. you have wide choices, fresh and god tast, i like the royal spicy soup better. they are busy on weekends, so you’d better come early.

Party of 5 including myself came here for dinner. This hot pot place used to be called iHotPot. This place is situated in the T&T plaza so finding parking spot during dinner hours can be chaotic. Luckily, I was able to find a spot right in front of the restaurant.
As you know with AYCE hot pot, you choose a soup base and you can pick everything from the menu. The pots comes individual and you either choose single or double soup base. FYI, the menu listed on their website is outdated. They have increase their price on soup base by 50 cents. I opted for the Royal Spicy Soup Base and the Pork Bone Soup Base. We also ordered 2 jars of freshly squeezed orange, and 2 bottles of Coors Light for myself.
The staff here only speaks Mandarin or Cantonese. If you can only speak English forget about it, the staff here don’t speak English.
The pot came less than 5 minutes so it was extremely quick. The Royal Spicy Soup is like medium but the more it boils, it gets spicier so be cautious on that. I’m love spicy food but I had to flag down the staff to get me water. Vegetables we ordered are fresh but the portions on meats is way too small for 5 hungry hippos. We had to constantly order more. When it gets busy it’s frustrating to flag down staff.
Fellow Unilocalers, you should also be aware that there’s a lot of Chinese immigrant students who comes acting like a boss. They cut in line and act like they own the place. There were a couple students my bummed into who drives a white BMW M4 acting all cocky towards her when she was waiting in line. I had to straighten that out when I pulled up.
The bill came to $ 198 — that’s almost $ 40 per person without tips included. I rather go to Han Shin Fang. Nothing beats Hot Pot and BBQ at the same time.
To conclude, I’ll only come if my friends or colleagues invite me.
Food: 3.5÷5
Ambience: ⁴⁄₅
Service: 3.5÷5
Cleanliness: ⁴⁄₅

I like this place, probably the top 3 AYCE hot pot restaurants I’ve been to. It is ⁴⁄₅ not ⁵⁄₅ because it is a bit more expensive than the other place (charge extra for all soup base, i.e. no free soup base).
The food is good. Wide selection. They have most of the things you would want to put in a hot pot. The meat is fresh and quality is better than the average of all the other AYCE hot pot places. The omasum wasn’t that good day I was there.
The service is great. When your plates are getting empty, the server comes and asks if you want to order more food, which is extremely rare in AYCE restaurants. Speed is fast, no need to wait at all. But we only had 2 people, so not sure how is it like for a big group. The ordering is different. You don’t order on an ipad or put tick marks on an order sheet. You actually have to tell the server what you want. In my opinion, this is better since the server is there to answer all your questions.

Service at management level musy feel they have to much business, because management definitely does not seem to care. Servers try but when the management team leads with such poor attitude its hard. One of the worst examples of i don’t care i have ever incountered.

Have been there twice. I have to say the place is a typical hotpot place and food are also good. The service is considerable. Their waiters and waitresses always take initiative to help you out.
The only thing I don’t really appreciate is the pricing. Story is the price they put on menu is 26.99/person for adult but it’s actually a discount price only if you pay by cash. If you pay by debit /​credit, there is additional 2 bucks they gonna charge you. Adding the soup base it will cost you around 31.99/person. So the menu price didn’t list clearly what is the actual price is. I think customers should know what the exact price is no matter it is paid by cash or by card.
Before you start ordering, ask the exact price they will charge at the final stage when you want to pay the bill. As customer, we should protect our rights.

I decided to pay this place a visit off a recommendation of a fellow Unilocaler. He said I’d love the spicy pot and you know what, I absolutely did! I went on like a Wednesday night so there wasn’t even a line and I had superb service! The servers kept coming to ask me if I wanted more and consistently refilled the soup base. I don’t had too many complaints. Reason for a lack of 5 stars is the freshness in the ingredients. it’s not bad but could be better. The trip tasted a bit off. Maybe it was cut too thick. The sauce options were good and I liked how all orders were on an iPad. Only downfall is you have no record of what you order, so you can’t even verify if everything you wanted came. All memory based.
I wanted to come back for a group party but they were asking for 700 min before taxes and tip for one of this private rooms… it was too much for hot pot.
Though I do love the décor! Can’t find another hot pot place with better décor, that’s for sure.

TL;DR version: I will not be returning…
I went to Legend with a few friends and I must say the service was pretty good. We were quite the demanding group and our server was always courteous and was always back to check on us to see if we needed anything else, or if anything was missing.
HOWEVER, I not all servers were as nice. When other servers walked by and I happened to ask for something (not thinking we had a server assigned to us & like other Chinese restaurants, everyone covered any table that needed anything) they were less than nice and I even caught a guy rolling his eyes at me when I asked if he could check on our order that was taking longer than the previous.
The food was good in that it was fresh. The soups bases were pretty good as well and there was also a wide selection of sauces.
The one thing I really did not appreciate was how the pricing was set up. I am all about spending money on good food BUT do not dupe me into paying for something I was not told I needed to pay for upfront. The menu and all advertisements say it is $ 27.99/person. Reasonable for hot pot eating out. But… that does not include soup base. Depending on the soup base you choose it’s an additional $ 3 – 6. Most places charge more for specialty soups so I wasn’t too surprised at first but I noticed no soup base was «included». Being the inquisitive person I am, I asked, what about just plain water? Server’s reply: oh but then we’d have to charge you for the pot… Me: how much is the pot? Server: $ 3. If you choose a soup base though, the pot’s price is included. Unfortunately, there was no option for no pot (roasting always works right?).
So, basically you are looking at a minimum of $ 30.99/person. I would’ve been fine if they had just said that upfront, many other hot pot places charge that much anyways. Put in the advertisements or pricing or menu that it is $ 30.99/person but your only option is the clear soup. That’s fine. But to make the pricing like that is like inducing people to think they are getting a deal only to sucker punch them after they’ve entered. I do not appreciate such business practice and quite frankly it should not be encouraged. I will not being returning to this place ever again.

Legend Pot is a new hotpot place that I was looking forward to because a few family friends talked a lot of positive things about it. I came here with 3 other friends on a Friday night, I was late, so I didn’t have to wait to be seated, but I heard the wait time wasn’t too bad.
Other than the nice seating for this place and the individual pot concept, everything else were bad!
1) Huge communication barrier, all servers will speak to you in mandarin despite when you are talking to them in Cantonese or English. If your customers cannot response back to you in Mandarin, it means we don’t speak it! So STOP ASKING us questions in Mandarin.
2) First round of ordering was good, all subsequent orders, they tend to not want to bring the food out. We asked for some meatballs and beef 4 times before they FINALLY come out with ONE plate of beef and one meatball per person. WTF?!
3) All soup base other than their «water base» requires additional cost, it’s around $ 3 more, which is a big no-​no for me unless the food you offer offsets the premium.
4) Literally everything we ordered looked familiar, and after thinking for a bit, I realized everything is bought from T&T. No wonder they all look like the food I have at home when I do hotpot.
5) My BIGGEST complain about this place is the misleading price they have on their menu. When we asked for the bill, the server said if we pay cash, we will get 5% off. So i was like, okay cool, we can pay cash. The bill came and we did not see any 5% off, so we asked. The server then said the price you see listed on the menu is for cash price, so if you pay with cards, you need to add 5% on top of that price. WTF?! WHO THE HECK LIST THEIR PRICES LIKE THAT?!!
NEVER EVER coming back here again. Only positive for the night is, the Chinese deep fried buns which I will upload a picture to show.

I’m quite surprised at all the negative reviews I’m reading… Maybe I just got lucky with a good experience.
I was devastated when I saw that my favourite hotpot place, iCook, had closed down. It was one of the rare hotpot places that lets you go up and grab the stuff you want rather than waiting on the staff to order your items and deliver them to you.
So when I first walked in, I was impressed at the renovations they did to this place. The interior decoration of this place is probably the nicest I’ve seen for a hot pot place in the GTA. But then I was worried when I saw that it was an ordering system — most hot pot places I’ve been to which had an order system would often forget half the things you order, and/​or give you very small portions so you have to constantly order again and again until you just get sick of ordering.
I was even more worried to see that there was no pen and paper, so I had to tell the servers what I want, which I thought was unnecessarily tedious. I also tend to be a big eater when it comes to hot pot, and I didn’t want to be judged for the amount I was ordering (you know, that «ugh huh you sure you can finish that amount?» look from servers).
I was surprised that the servers were all proficient enough in English to take my order — not that common for a Chinese restaurant in Markham. There was no judgement, they just took down everything I said. They were honest that the portions were small, but told me to just order more as I finish so that the items can be kept fresh. It was a good point, and because there were lots of servers around it wasn’t hard to flag one down. Everything I ordered came very quickly — maybe it was because there weren’t that many people there, but I was quite impressed. On top of that, they bring everything to you in neat arrangements on a variety of different shaped plates and bowls — for once, they actually cared about how the uncooked food was served. It was the cleanest hot pot place I’ve ever been to, and while ordering the sauces one-​by-​one from the server can be kind of annoying, it is nice to know that no one else had touched the sauce but you. If you have a friend who is nit picky about the sanitation qualify of hot pot restaurants, Legend Pot is definitely the place to go.
Yes the portions did come quite small, but when I just asked for 4 orders of something, they actually did bring out 4 orders. The quality of the the meat was better than any of the hot pot places I’ve been to, and nothing that came to the table was frozen solid.
So not everything is perfect, I would give this place 4.5 stars but I just bumped it up: First, the plate you use for the entire meal to eat off of is completely flat, which is annoyingly messy because the soup just spills off the plate onto the table. Second, the place is expensive. I spent about $ 70 for two people on a weekend night, which is considerably more than most all-​you-​can-​eat hot pot restaurants. Lastly, and this is more a tip rather than a criticism, the Legend spicy soup base is VERY spicy. My usual hot pot soup base is the Sichuan spicy soup base, and this one was a lot spicier than what I was used to — so be warned.
As long as I’m going to hot pot with a bunch of financially well-​off friends, this is going to be my go-​to spot… That is until a Hai Di Lao decides to pop up in Toronto one day *fingers crossed*

We got served two tiny plates of lamb, both times we went there. We were told that their kitchen is too busy cutting the meat! Wow I’ve never have this issue at Morals Village, located at hwy 7 and Kennedy.
If you’re going to be cheap with meat, don’t open a AYCE hotpot restaurant. This alone will keep me from going back again.
With that aside, they do offer great selection of quality hotpot items as well as soup bases.
I don’t know what else to say, would have been a 4 star if they were not too cheap with meat.

not too shabby. fresh selection of food (meat, veggies) soup bases aren’t that great I had the most spicy and the chicken broth one. (duo pot)
the freshly made drinks are good — pineapple juice, and watermelon
and the dessert I had was good! mango sago

Less than a year since our 5 stars visit, Legend Pot is almost unrecognizable in terms of its service, food, and price.
Service — we had submit each order almost 5 times before it was brought out. They enforced a two hour limit — we weren’t served our first plate of meat until 45 mins after submitting our first order, our first plate of veggies 15 minutes before they sent us our check.
Foods — didn’t get sample half of the menu since most of what we ordered were never brought out. What we did taste however wasn’t as fresh as they used to be.
Price — we felt as if we paid to be starved and ignored. When we asked to check on our orders, we were told they were busy and we needed to wait. In addition, we made a reservation for 12 ppl, but was given a table where two of the stations weren’t working. 4 of the guests had to share a half and half pot — which we had to pay a dollar extra for each and also paying full price for all 12 guests!
Beyond frustrating. Like many predecessors, i don’t expect legend pot to last long if this is its standard. I certainly wont come back to confirm.

Went with a couple of friends on a Friday night and this place was packed and had a line up! We waited about 15 minutes before getting a seat and once we sat down, the waitress served us. The staff was pretty friendly and quick to serve despite the busyness. The restaurant has a romantic ambiance due to the very dim lights but it was pretty loud with the restaurant bring a full house.
Although all you can eat, the prices were fairly expensive compared to other AYCE hotpot (~$ 37 with tip). I had a spicy broth which was actually too spicy for me to enjoy the food. For me, the chicken broth wouldve been perfect. The variety of meats and veggies is pretty good.
I don’t think I would come back here again knowing that there are several cheaper options with similar selections.

For the first time in a while, I was finally able to go here without an excessive wait. A few things right off the bat: they only accept cash and they aren’t cheap. Base price per person is $ 25, plus your soup which is an additional $ 2.75 or more. Drinks are also extra. Now on to the food: food is fresh and seafood is included. The soup base was a little bland but the assortment of sauces was good. Service could use some improvement. The waiters got our order wrong or incomplete multiple times and it was difficult to flag down a server, many of which didn’t speak any English. Overall the meal was alright. But wasn’t worth the $ 35-​ish a person we had to pay. With so may other hot pot options around, it’s hard to justify such an expensive meal.

Let me say this first, never have i left an ayce hotpot hungry.
Our server was very friendly in introducing the menu, asking politely what soup and sauces we wanted. Cool. Anyway when we ordered our first round of food only half of it came. The rest were missing … As we call our server she apologized and said the kitchen was busy. Come to think of it most of the food is frozen or raw. Weird. As we ordered the next batch of food it came quickly but still missing stuff. There were also other tables that sat before us and got served too. Its just weird on how this place works…
I also asked for water several times and never came. I had 2 glasses in the whole 1.5hrs dinner experience. Horrible
I got really upset on what was going on that i just wanted to leave. No point of staying.
Luckly t&t is just around the corner.
Would not recommend to anyone. Its such a waste of money. Sorry.

I like this place because it offers semi-​private booths instead of a large open area.
The one-​bowl-​per-​person idea is great because everyone can get the soup base that they want. However, it’s a rip off that you have to pay for the soup base ($ 2.50−3.50) on top of the buffet price ($ 28 for weekend dinner). So overall, this place runs on the pricier end, especially for Chinese restaurant standard.
I do love their large selection of food though. They are pretty good quality and definitely fresh. Make sure to come in with an empty stomach and order more.

Legend Pot is like a shiny, brand-​new mid-​end fancy car — quick, get here before the new-​ness factor rubs off.
Looks-​wise, it’s a decently/​mid-​large sized spot, with black and stereotypically «modern Chinese» décor with spacious booths. The booths house an electric/​induction burner in the middle of the table which fits one large, 1/​3^rd-​mop-​bucket sized pot split into a yin-​yang shape for you to fill with two base soups of your choice. The tables with regular seating contains one small burner at each spot, for small, individual pots (roughly the circumference of a larger personal sized pizza).
The «engine», if you will, would be the food. So good. Beef is fresh, sliced and rolled up to the size of about two fingers wide. Lamb is sweet and tender. Somebody has gone and paid enough or sourced their eggs really well to serve extra-​large grade — literally a «Good egg!» Vegetables are fresh, lovely and green. Mussels are large, fish is not «fishy» tasting, and the shrimp… cake things are unctuous.
The soup broths are flavourful and actually made and topped up with broth rather than water when your pot starts to run dry. We chose the second level/​two chilli rating soup and the pork bone soup. This spicy broth won’t taste spicy until the end as it takes some time for the spices to brew, but after 2 hours, you will start to have that authentic «mala», tongue-​numbing feel. Being a spice aficionado, I would compare the peak of this spiciness level to the heat level of «hot» wings at hot wing restos and pubs.
On a silly side note: the individual bathroom stalls contain a thoughtful tray of dental floss for patrons. Not the kind that comes in a tiny plastic box, but the kind that comes built in to a small green plastic pitchfork. Ahh, the new restaurant feels.
My only gripe about this place is they can be very odd about serving portions. For example, we asked for squid/​beef/​fish balls for our table of 4 and would receive a varying number of each: 5 squid, 4 beef, and 1 fish. Random. Also the gluten puffs (my favourite) which are usually served whole, have been cut into four pieces per puff and passed off as four servings. Although I admit their gluten puff is higher quality than many other AYCE hot pot places, gluten still remains one of those super cheapo grocery items, so why stinge out on a few cents?
Finally, my tip to you is to wear wear only easily laundered clothing and consider leaving your jacket in the car. Unfortunately, leaving any hot pot joint at the end will only leave you with the smell of boiled meats for days and not like new leather!

I love hotpot and Legend Pot’s predecessor (iCook) was decreasing in quality and I was happy to try its replacement.
The wait is long and I’m not surprised since it’s a new restaurant. The décor is much nicer than iCook — dark sophisticated décor with asian elements.
Each person at the table gets their own pot, and I really must say that the quality of the soup is great. The soup is thick and the flavour stays even after soup is refilled a few times. The spicy soup creeps into the meat and is still a dominant flavour even after dipping into the sauce.
However, this is where my compliments end.
For their slightly-​over-​average price, you have to pay additional for each kind of soup. (Most hotpot offer a few free soups and a few premium soups). For me, a large part of hotpot is making your own dipping sauce — however, when order sauce here apparently only two is allowed per person.
The service is horrid — the place is full of waiters rushing around but when you wave at someone they all pretend not to be able to see you. In the occasion where they can’t hide or run away, they tell you someone will be with you shortly, and of course no one ever is. This greatly affects an all-​you-​can-​eat experience where the waiters have to take your order and bring you food!
I’ve ordered quite a few things that never came. Of the meat that arrived at the table, the quality was average. My favorite of the bunch is maybe the stuffed meat balls/​fish balls.

I like this place. However I don’t understand why they dun take reservation for party under 10. Food is good, however for the price that I’m obligated to pay $ 28 on weekend plus $ 2.50 for broth is pretty expensive. I ordered food 3 times and it never came, you really need patience. I love the individual hot pot however which is hard to find. Recommended if you’ve never been!

Its not too often that you come across a hotpot restaurant in the markham/​Richmond hill area that you can give a solid 5 stars. Everyone at the table gets their own little hot pot with their choice of soup. The décor was new and very modern.
The food was on the better side of most the hot pot places. Service was quick and waitresses ordered on a tablet which was pretty cool too. This place and Hi Pot in Richmond hill are probably my favorite two