Restaurant: Wagyu House by The X Pot [1, 2]
Location: 18558 Gale Ave Suite 122-128, Rowland Heights, CA 91748. (866) 610-0609
Date: May 26, 2024
Cuisine: Chinese Hot Pot
Rating: Maybe the best “upscale” hot pot?
We first came here for lunch but this is our return for a big blow out wine dinner…
Build out is pretty extensive. Sure, the build quality is “sloppy” and it won’t hold up, but it looks pretty cool right now.
If you pay for the “vip room” or have the NFT like Bovon does, then you can make a reservation.
Private rooms.
Sauce Bar. The sauce bar is excellent. Not quite as good as Shancheng Lameizi but very good. There weren’t very many snacks though (like cucumbers etc).
My usual pair of sauces. I tried not to make them very spicy today.
The menu.
And the special “expensive” package menu.
Spicy bear broth and Golden Chicken Soup broth.
Slightly less spicy and Herbal Chicken broth (with the pig but left out)
Braised Lotus Root snack.
Crispy Pork snack — awesome.
Bone marrow. Solid.
My sauces from the excellent sauce bar.
Baby octopus.
Mixed greens.
Lobster tails.
Spongy shrimp and roe rolls. Awesome.
Bean curd skin.
Super tasty fish and roe balls.
Squid.
Shrimp balls which were great and very fresh.
Squid legs.
Quail eggs.
Fish maw?
Lotus root.
Winter melon or similar.
Mushroom medley.
A5 cubes. Frozen, so were a bit hard to cook properly.
A5 of some sort — great.
Smoking!
Another cut.
Zombie food, aka Pig Brains.
Another bean curd.
And another A5, ribeye or similar.
Goose intestine.
Noodles.
Duck webs.
A non A5 beef.
Spam!
Beef stomach.
Another meat.
Beef tongue.
The man with the lamb.
Trio of sorbetto: chocolate, coco almond, and raspberry ginger.
Awesome night and probably the best hot pot I’ve had n the SGV / HH. Great service, great food, very fresh, nice private room, great sauce bar. Totaled up to $220/pp all in, so not the cheapest, but really good.
They had face dancers too!
Robo waiters.
This is so SGV.
Overall, if you get a private room and order it up, Wagyu X is one of the best hot pots in the greater SGV. Ingredient quality is high, they have a lot of items, the space is good, service is strong, the sauce bar is big. All great!
This place apparently has the same owners as Niku X .