KING CRAB SHABU-SHABU 132, TaiZhongGang (Taichung Kang) Road, section 1

Seafood lovers will embrace this new hotpot restaurant which, in an unprecedented offer, provides diners with a wide range of quality all-you-can-eat seafood items. Incredibly, this includes prized king crabs from Hokkaido. Diners can scoop up the thick, spiny king crab legs, dump them into the broth and pop out the succulent fresh within a few moments. Altogether, the buffet of hotpot ingredients has about 12 to 15 types of seafood that includes various types of crabs, shrimp, clams, mussels, and "tofu" shark meat. Given the fact that this restaurant is part of the same company as Serious David Shen's Steak & Seafood House, it's no surprise that there is also sirloin beef and pork. Of course, there are vegetables, tofu and other more traditional hotpot ingredients, plus soft drinks, coffee and an ice cream bar. Portions of tasty steamed salmon rice and/or Japanese cold soba noodles are provided, too. The restaurant is open all day, and the price for adults is NT$550/person and NT$250 for kids (120-140 cm tall, under 120 are free). A 10-percent service charge is added. The two-floor restaurant, located next to the intersection of TaizhongGang, MinQuan and GongYi roads, is a spacious place with a pay parking lot nearby.--By Douglas Habecker, translated by Uvia Chang