Soupleaf Hot Pot serves up warm meals for chilly weather

• Rather than ordering a specific set of ingredients, they're laid out buffet-style, and you can go up and pick as many as you want.
• Then it's up to you to dip your items in your bubbling pot of broth and cook them to your liking.

What we got: Pretty much every vegetarian item available.

• The options felt endless. We got tofu, tofu skins, several varieties of mushrooms, eggs, bok choy, corn, broccoli, bean thread noodles, sweet chili oil … We could go on.
• We also got the frozen lychee margarita, which is a delicious way to cool down between bowls of very hot soup.

Of note: The restaurant is excellent at labeling ingredients for dietary restrictions.

• Colorful stickers note which items have meat, seafood or wheat in them.

Cost: Dinner is $35 and lunch is $25 for a pot of broth and endless ingredients.

• $8 for the lychee margarita.

If you go: Soupleaf is located at 6929 Airport Blvd., in the Crescent shopping center.

• We highly recommend making a whole trip out of it. You can shop at 99 Ranch Market, get bingsu or taiyaki for dessert at Snow Ball Rice Ball, shop for books and trinkets at Kinokuniya, and so much more.
• Pro tip: The shopping center gets extremely crowded on weekends. Make a reservation, and budget extra time to find a parking spot.