Hot Pot Plus

You’ll find Hot Pot Plus on Elizabeth Street’s lively, market-adjacent restaurant strip. Here the $2.80 per 100 grams price tag is about as cheap as it comes for malatang in Melbourne. Cute cartoon-drawn symbols of luck and abundance cover the walls in this sub-40 person nook, and while the restaurant does a vegetarian broth and has a decent veggie cabinet, Hot Pot Plus is decidedly more suited to the beast eater, with comprehensive offerings of meat and offal that includes pig blood, pig ear and chicken gizzards. The standard beef broth here is excellent but beware the heat — we ordered medium hot and left humbled.