Zine tie-in · A Guide to Chinese HotpotOne Hotpot, Many Flavours
Hotpot isn't just a dish — it's a way of eating.
From fiery beef-tallow broth to tomato, mushroom and coconut chicken, Chinese hotpot lets everyone at the table cook each bite just the way they like it. Choose a broth, add sliced meat, seafood, tofu and vegetables, then eat and share as the pot bubbles. Explore Berlin’s dedicated hotpot restaurants alongside Chinese restaurants with table-side or buffet hotpot.
13 hotpot restaurants · 4 malatang · 4 maocai
Here for hotpot
If hotpot is the main event, start here. These restaurants offer a fuller choice of broths and ingredients for a long, shared meal around the pot.
These are proper sit-down hotpot restaurants — a shared pot for the table, not the solo-bowl style of malatang or maocai.
6 restaurants
ShooLoongKan Hotpot
Meinekestraße 22 · Charlottenburg
Google 4.4 (1,593)€30–50/person
Sichuan beef-tallow red broth leads the menu, with tomato, mushroom and tom yum alternatives. Double-chilli beef, beef skewers, crispy pork and brown-sugar rice cakes complete the spread.
Chengdu hotpotHou Tang Hotpot
Kurfürstendamm 175 · Charlottenburg
Google 4.4 (809)€30–60/person
Its standout broth combines pickled greens and douhua, alongside tomato and pork-bone broths. Highlights include fresh-cut beef, an offal platter and 18-second tender beef.
Nin Hao
Bismarckstraße 24 · Charlottenburg
Google 4.5 (1,910)€30–40/person
Broths range from Sichuan spicy and clear beef-bone broth to sukiyaki, tom yum and curry-coconut. Beyond the buffet, add xiaolongbao, shrimp dumplings or char siu bao.
All-you-can-eat hotpotRuyixuan Hotpot
Plaza, Frankfurter Allee 73C · Friedrichshain
Google 4.6 (792)€20–30/person
Alongside beef-tallow, tomato and mushroom broths, Ruyixuan offers fish-maw chicken and bamboo-shoot duck broths. Yin-yang and three-way pots make its milder choices easy to combine.
Southern-style light brothTing Song Hotpot
Eisenzahnstraße 14 · Wilmersdorf
Google 4.7 (601)€40–80/person
Broths run from mala beef-tallow and clear-oil chilli to coconut chicken, beef-bone goji and mushroom. Handmade shrimp paste, fish paste and noodles round out the pot.
Yan Huo BBQ & Hot Pot
Kaiserdamm 89 · Westend
Google 4.7 (282)€30–40/person
Choose mushroom, tomato-oxtail or Yunnan sour broth and pair the pot with tableside barbecue. Wagyu, Iberico pork, prawns, scallops and salmon lead the menu.
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Malatang & Maocai in Berlin
Choose from these spots when you want a hot, spicy bowl packed with vegetables, tofu, meat or seafood. The kitchen cooks everything for you and serves it in one bowl; the card label shows whether the restaurant calls it malatang or maocai.
8 restaurants
Mala House
Wilmersdorfer Straße 15 · Charlottenburg
Google 4.9 (285)€10–20/person
Malatang 麻辣烫Hotpot & Nudeln
Revaler Str. 17 · Friedrichshain
Google 4.3 (528)€€/person
Malatang 麻辣烫Yangguofu (Mitte)
Weinbergsweg 5 · Mitte
Google 4.5 (473)€10–20/person
Malatang 麻辣烫Yangguofu (Steglitz)
Albrechtstr. 131 · Steglitz
Google 4.8 (829)€10–20/person
Maocai 冒菜Mao Master
Kantstraße 50 · Charlottenburg
Google 4.8 (609)€10–20/person
Maocai 冒菜Mao Zeit
EG, Manifesto, Alte Potsdamer Str. 7 · Tiergarten
Google 4.2 (64)€10–20/person
Maocai 冒菜Sanku Maots'ai (Mitte)
Friedrichstraße 121 · Mitte
Google 4.5 (777)€10–20/person
Maocai 冒菜Sanku Maots'ai (Friedrichshain)
Warschauer Str. 81A · Friedrichshain
Google 4.5 (246)€10–20/person
Hotpot, plus more to share
Choose these restaurants when some at the table want hotpot and others prefer noodles, dim sum or regional dishes. Order table-side or buffet hotpot alongside more Chinese dishes to share.
7 restaurants
Shaniu's House of Noodles (Tiergarten)
Kurfürstenstraße 79 · Tiergarten
Google 4.5 (337)€10–20/person
Chaomin
Prenzlauer Allee 27A · Prenzlauer Berg
Google 4.7 (689)€10–20/person
Dschunke
Breite Str. 15 · Schmargendorf
Google 3.9 (425)€20–30/person
Lei's Küche
Seestraße 41 · Wedding
Google 4.7 (947)€10–20/person
Lulu's
Knesebeckstraße 18-19 · Charlottenburg
Google 4.7 (167)€20–30/person
Peking Perle
Falkenseer Damm 17 · Spandau
Google 4.4 (85)€10–20/person
Sonne
Neue Kantstraße 16 · Charlottenburg
Google 4.1 (860)€20–30/person
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About A Guide to Chinese Hotpot
The zine A Guide to Chinese Hotpot was created by Jia You. Jia is a Chinese comics artist and illustrator based in Berlin. Her work begins with small stories from everyday life, exploring food, memory, and belonging.
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