Black Knight — Authentic Taiwan hotpot joint with 7 soup bases in style with celebrities

If you’re a giant lover of hotpot like my editor, Pavin, then this place is for you. Introducing Black Knight, a pioneer hotpot fan favorite which has been working in Taipei for over 40 years. And now, they’ve simply opened a model new area positioned at our very personal Millenia Walk.

Since opening for enterprise in 1981, it has amassed a large fanbase which incorporates celebrities like singer-songwriter Jay Chou, director Ang Lee, and extra.

The Millenia Walk area has floor-to-ceiling home windows which allows loads of pure gentle. It additionally boasts a number of VIP rooms for personal cosy affairs.

In my opinion, the soup base for a hotpot institution is essential— that is the place Black Knight shines. Their 7 tantalising broths are slow-cooked for 16 hours to deliver out all of the pure flavours.

I used to be misplaced for phrases when the service workers carried the hotpot in direction of our desk. It was a wonderful yellow ceramic pot adorned with floral motifs, bearing a placing resemblance to an emperor’s gown featured in interval dramas.

We tried the Fish Maw Chicken Pot (S$48 for single pot) and the Spicy Pot (S$38 for Single Pot, S$58 for Double Pot).

The Fish Maw Chicken Pot is boiled with fish maw, kampong rooster, dry scallops and cordyceps. Its style jogged my memory of a cross between a strong shark’s fin broth and a rooster collagen soup— actually scrumptious!

The Spicy Pot is sure to be extraordinarily in style with mala followers who take pleasure in “xiao la” (much less spicy), and its simmered along with frozen bean curd, beef tendon and beef tripe. I used to be shocked on the beneficiant serving of elements within the broth which felt like I’d ordered a separate à la carte portion.

The meats served at Black Knight are of top quality. From Japanese A4 Wagyu (S$128) to Okinawa Black Pork Belly (S$26), that is the place to be if you wish to impress your loved ones or an necessary enterprise shopper.

There are 18 sorts of condiments so that you can select from. Besides crowd-favourites like sesame sauce, I noticed a few distinctive choices.

One of them was the black bean sauce. It had a tasty mixture of umami XO sauce and salty black beans— good for dipping meats in!

I additionally noticed my all-time favorite ginger sauce, much like the topping used for Soup Restaurant’s Samsui Ginger Chicken— that is one sauce that’s not often seen served at different institutions.

Though eating at Black Knight received’t be essentially the most inexpensive, the luxurious broths and premium elements are properly well worth the worth level, for my part.

Pay this place a go to the subsequent time you need to impress your kinfolk and company. I do know I’ll!

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