Kood Tea Bar and Cafe, Tempe

Kood Tea Bar and Cafe is not a typical hot pot spot. Here's a rundown of how it operates: first, guests are given individual menus where they mark off what ingredients they'd like immersed in the hot pot's flavorful broth. Then, they specify the spice-level of their broth. Rather than cooking the meat and veggies themselves, as is a custom with most hot pot restaurants, customers relieve their duties to Kood's chefs, who slice tender pieces of beef and pork belly, fresh veggies, and add wide noodles into boiling pots of richly-flavored broth. All that's left for diners now is to dig in.