Mala Hotpot Restaurant (04) 2475-5883 159, Dadu Road Hours：11 am-12 am

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    This large new hotpot restaurant is located in what used to be a Discovery Coffee cafe near the WuQuan Road intersection. The Western-style atmosphere and service showcases the restaurant's tasty all-you-can-eat hotpot meals, which cost NT$258 for lunch and NT$318 for dinner after 4 p.m. (add a 10% service charge). The tables seat four to six people each and diners start by choosing their hotpot broth base--either one single flavor, or a pot divided into two flavors. There is the "mala" spicy broth, made with Chinese herbs; a less-spicy "pao tsai" kimchi broth; and a mild "jun gu" mushroom broth. The menu has 68 different hotpot ingredients, including seafood and meat selections like beef and pork slices, pork chops and--in an unusual adddition--venison. There are also other favorites, like various fish balls, mushrooms, vegetables and tofu, as well as rice and noodles. Steamed "baotze" meat-filled buns are also on the menu, and there is a help-yourself ice cream freezer. There are a number of free parking spaces beside the restaurant, in addition to another basement parking lot next door. --By Douglas Habecker, translated by Jean Huang