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Let’s play a quick round of Would You Rather: would you rather Chinese food or a Southern seafood boil? Shrimp fried rice or hushpuppies? Brown sugar glutinous rice cakes or fried catfish?
You no longer have to make such difficult decisions, thanks to The Q Seafood Boil and Hotpot. We didn’t lie in the headline that most certainly caught your attention: New Orleans meets Chinatown — on Sheridan in Amherst.
Yet, among all the Chinese-Southern fusion foods, they are still the home of the tornado potato. If you’re out of the loop, a tornado potato is a popular South Korean street food consisting of a seasoned deep-fried potato on a skewer. (Note for our Gen Z and Millennial readers: A tornado potato is NOT to be confused with the iconic potato flew around my room Vine. Dare we say, it’s even better.)
We said we were done, but… would you rather a seafood boil or a hotpot? For the boil, you can choose from crawfish, shrimp, snow crab legs, mussels, clams, or lobster tail. For the hotpot, there’s… well, there’s a LOT to choose from.
The hotpot and Malatang experience invites you to select ingredients directly out of the fridge display. You can either do a broth-based hotpot or a dry stirfry, Malatang-style. Oh, and you get to choose from eight different noodle types. We know, it’s another would-you-rather dilemma, but we promise that you can’t make a single wrong choice.
Now, we’re biased to the clam chowder and lobster bisque at The Q Seafood Boil and Hotpot, but our friends say the drinks are what really brings the whole experience together. The Rainbow Rush shot tray and the Q Blue Piña Colada are bright, fun, and — above all — refreshing. Ahhhhh.
With big portions as one bonus, the impeccable service is another plus. The servers are mechanically perfect at what they do. They operate so very smoothly! Oh, you think that’s a strange compliment for a waiter? We should’ve specified sooner: the servers are actually robots…