The food is okay but too spicy and in general tastes bad:( The service is slow and low quality. For example, some workers were talking for 20 mins ) The decorations were nice . read more

My friend recommended this place so I had to try! We made a reservation for a party of 8 on the phone, so there was no wait. Server was super nice and food was wow - the best dry pot I've ever had! Also spicy fried fish was really good, too. I strongly recommend this place. Would definitely come back for more! read more

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We ordered the frog pot. There are other meat selection like chicken, beef, etc etc. It came out of a hot wok and transferred onto a portable cook top. Meal included 2 bowls of rice & spicy/sour soup. You get to pick 2 side to add into your pot, such as bean sprouts, rice cake, beans, tofu, & more. The food is ok. Ok in terms of the quality, taste, portion, and pricing. Service was a bit on the low side..hopefully they pick things up a bit or perhaps hire 1 more server. Willing to go back and try again. read more

General Pot - Frog pot - Chinese Near Me - Fremont, California

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This is the second times that We have been there ,delicious foods with great service! The spicy is perfect for us.fresh and classic !

I didn't order by phone because I was afraid there would be misunderstandings so I ordered in person. I pointed at the items I wanted while the owner didn't even bother looking at what I was pointing to. Guess what? He got my order wrong. For $70 and tip, I'm a bit upset. Food is good but... I came out during covid times because I thought an in person order would be done correctly instead of possible misunderstandings over the phone. Longer exposure time for nothing. I really wanted the fish gluten in my dry pot order. Additions to dry pots are not cheap and to miss an expensive charged add on sucks. read more

General Pot - I got the bullfrog dry pot and wanted to add fish gluten but the chef forgot it. The addition is not cheap. - Chinese Near Me - Fremont, California

Tasty Chinese food with lots of wok flavor. I love that every dish was fragrant with the woks burning hot charring flavor. Gives it a maillard effect and definitely can taste it. I like that the dishes here are not too salty and not too oily. The wok dishes was a bit heavy on oil but it might be the Sichuan style. I definitely recommend the Smell chicken - it's a fried chicken dish tossed in an umami sweet sauce The been sprout with broth Stir fry sour potato strip Beef wok read more

Mild is F king spicy. Order 2 bowls of rice for yourself. Bring a bib or towel. I felt like I was at the gym. Eggplant was awesome Mapo tofu was precise Shrimp dry pot was royal Added 4 veggies. The dry pot was enough for 2 to 4 ppl. I thank the server for stopping me from ordering more than I did. Had mad left overs. Definitely will be back. read more

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Nice and delicious. Came here for the hunan restaurant and hey were so packed. So general pot it is. It's clean and cozy. Came in and got seated right away. Ordered bbq fish, 凉粉. Everything was delicious read more

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Foods good and everything else especially the service and ambiance of it and nice view and everything

First time trying out the place. The menu had lunch specials and also a big poster outside on the curb advertised lunch specials. However when I try to order from the lunch specials menu, the server refused to take my order. Bad customer service and false advertising on the curb. Will never visit the establishment again. read more

General Pot - Lunch specials menu - advertised but server refused to take order. - Chinese Near Me - Fremont, California

My friend bought me here for the first time and I have been coming back every week for the past few months. Their dry pot is amazing with shrimp and fish fillet and clams !! read more

We often drive from Oakland to fremont just to eat here. It is close to a movie theater, so it is best place to out on a date with whome ever you like. Try the whole fish pot and the spicy chicken!!!! read more

Amazing food and exemplary customer service . Lamb Dry pot and spicy chillier chicken is out of the world .

I traveled to China a couple months ago and as a foodie, I certainly sampled LOTS of food there. The most memorable food in China was GAN GUO "Dry pot." The concept is basically similar to Chinese Hot Pot (Chinese fondue) where you pick the meat and vegetables and cook them all in one pot, except that "Gan Guo" is "dry" with no broth/soup. When I saw the restaurant posting on Yelp, I was really intrigue and excited! We ordered the "beef" gan guo ($19.99) and added the lotus roots and wood ear mushroom. We asked for "medium spiciness." The portion was LARGE and actually, there were already some vegetables that came with the pot (when we placed our order we thought it was only beef). So, with the $19.99 price tag, you actually get sliced beef, some mushroom, bean sprouts, onions and celery. Also, they actually didn't give a lot of the extra items that we ordered, so maybe next time, it wouldn't be necessary to add extra items into the pot. If you like spicy food though, medium is not going to cut it. As a matter of fact, my gf who doesn't eat spicy at all, could handle the medium heat, so next time we will probably order the extra spicy pot to experience the heat. The flavor of the gan guo though, was super delicious, lots of flavor, just lacked of spiciness, in my opinion, hahahaha! We also ordered two non spicy dishes, fish fillet stir fry in wine sauce (and with some veggies) and the vegetables cooked with thousand years egg & chinese ham in broth. I must say, both the non spicy dishes were also really good. The fish was not fishy and had just the right flavor of saltiness. The vegetables dish were soupy but the broth was light and hearty, I would certainly order this dish again! Price wise, considering the portion, everything was very reasonable! Major complaint and why I'm giving a 4 stars vs 5 stars was that they were VERY SLOW! The food came out very slowly.. probably 30 minutes long, which is unheard of in a Chinese Restaurant. There were lots of diners, BUT they could have been more efficient and they would have a lot better turnover of customers if they would be faster in cooking the food! We went on a Saturday night and we waited about 10 minutes for a table of 4, so not too bad. Certainly, will come here again! read more

General Pot - Chi mau chai with pidan (thousand years eggs) and chinese ham in broth. - Chinese Near Me - Fremont, California

There is basically one thing on the menu; it is a kind of make your own stew. You select your meat(s) and/or seafood, veggies and how spicy you want. Then everything is brought to you in a wok (pretty much cooked), set down onto your own burner on the table. You bring the stew to a boil and eat. The sauce was soya based, everything tasted the same. Kind of different, but I probably will not come back often. read more

This new restaurant took the place of A La Shanghai, and boy am I glad... The previous establishment just didn't cut it (so slooooooow). General Pot is a very nice change, and a great addition to the restaurant selections in the Pacific Commons. My colleague and I are always searching for places that serve up good spicy dishes. The "hot pot" served here is not what you may be used to thinking of... It actually is individual woks that have stir fried dish of your choice with added ingredients of your choice. They cook it in the kitchen, and add all the extra fixings to the top, and place it on a gas burner on your table top to continue cooking it. This basically helps your meal continuously cook in the mild to hot (your choice) sauce and melds the flavors together for a great meal. We ordered up the fried chicken wing hot pot. My colleague wanted to ask for something between medium to hot so it wouldn't burn a hole in our stomachs (we had both felt that once after ordering an extra spicy dish at another restaurant and regretted it)... What we got was a great dish with just the right amount of heat from the hot sauce and red chili peppers and mouth numbing green peppercorns. Chicken wings were fried, but mixed well with the sauce. We added rice cakes (nice and tender and chewy), and frozen tofu (soaked up all the sauce - good). It already came with bean sprouts, lotus root, chunks of potato, and wood ear mushrooms. They also give you a big container of rice, which helps balance out the heat. All in all, a good experience. Will come back to try something else... Oh yes, and they also have "frog hot pot" - not so sure about that.... read more

General Pot - Fried chicken wing general pot - Chinese Near Me - Fremont, California

We ordered lunch special, amount is more than regular lunch set in others, food are delicious, waiters are friendly. We will come back!

If you are craving for some authentic spicy Chinese food, this place will do you good.

I've never had dry hot pot before, but wow its sooo good! A lot of people around 8pm when we came, but still a couple of empty tables. The three of us shared an order of the duck meat dry hot pot and added on intestines, eggs, and tofu. OMG so yummy! Medium spicy was good enough for me, my stomach was warm after a few hours of eating it. We also ordered the chicken and corn soup, which was very good as well. $16 per person wasn't bad and we finished everything. The portion was ok that we weren't overly stuffed. I am looking forward to coming back here! read more

For spicy fans? Yes. But, I will echo what others say, their portions are a little less than expected, or at least in the protein side. We ordered the beef stew dry pot, added lotus root and nothing else. But I guess if we added more stuff there would be more in the pot, but the beef was definitely hard to find.... Also, their fried rice, this one on the menu: "Fried Rice (with Eggs, Combination, Yangzhou Style".... IS NOT YANGZHOU STYLE AT ALL. It's the frozen package of peas and carrots, eggs, and then TINY pieces of SPAM. If the spam was at least a decent amount, I would brush it off, but not only is it NOT what it states "combination-WHAT?!" he tries to tell me it's a special "ham" AND be stingy with it. Honestly, will still try it again since it's not that bad, but definitely not paying $8 for a plate of soggy, no combination, spam fried rice. I will avoid their carbs, period. read more

General Pot is located conveniently in Pacific Commons in Fremont. The restaurant seems to have their spicy Chinese food perfected. This place is well known for their Chinese dry pot dish. You take your pick at the meat and vegetables that you want in your dry pot and it is brought to you cooked on a portable stove. The dry pot was amazing - the meat was tender and juicy, and the spiciness added a powerful kick to the dish. Also, their Mapo Tofu was delicious. The tofu, ground meat, and sauce blended together to what may have been the best Mapo Tofu I have tasted in a while. This dish is a classic and I would highly recommend you order it. It's great with rice! read more

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Great place for spicy food. Place for vegetarians. Gone many time and quality is consistent. Friendly staff.

Depending on what you are looking for this could be a place for you. The cuisine seems really geared towards a Northern style Chinese with hotpot as a main focus but this might be a little misleading since the not all the dishes are intensely flavored. The service was nice but a bit slow and the dishes I had, still has room for improvement,IMHO. E.g. Although the green onion pancake was crispy and hot, it was a bit under seasoned and the gluten was over developed or unrested, since it had a bit of chew. Which was similar to the other dishes I experienced but some people might like this. read more

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They charged me more than the amount I signed off on. I tried to contact them, but didn't get a response. Please make sure to check your credit card statement later in the week if you decide to eat at this place. Not cool! read more

Not impressed with this place. Ordered General made spicy chicken wings lunch special. The entree came with steamed rice and soup. The soup was hot but not much flavor. The entree as you can see in the picture had waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy too many dry chillies. Dry chillies without the seeds. If that many chillies had all the seeds that dish would have been fiery hot. Basically had 4 to 5 pieces of wings small in size cut into 2 pieces each. The dish was around 9 bucks expected better. Bottom line will not be visiting again. Sorry read more

General Pot - General made spicy chicken wings - Chinese Near Me - Fremont, California

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Quite a drive for me to get down there but man the food is great, been coming in and doing take-outs in the past a few weeks and tried pretty much all the pots, definitely go with the tender beef if you want a good starter one. Following that would be the shrimp and then pork intestine (if you are up for it). Other pots are ok but some of them like chicken wings and whatnot are deep fried, just not my thing read more

Good Shanghai place for a meal. The quality of the food and price are reasonable. Most items are spicy but you can ask for less spicy if you can't handle the heat read more

This place is authentic chinese spicy food restaurant. Not doubt for sure. You should try dry pot. It comes with lots of meat you order and veges. However, I do not recommend you to get extra thing because you already have enough food. Come and enjoy read more

General Pot - Beef dry pot - Chinese Near Me - Fremont, California

My favorite Dry Pot Place! Highly recommended Snow-pea Sprout, Spicy Chicken Wings, BBQ Fish and Pig Intestine Dry Pot.

After hearing my coworkers rave about this place for a few weeks now, I finally had a chance to try it today. And I can't believe I've been missing out all this time. Everything was deliciously spicy! We got the spicy beef with wood ear fungus, lobster balls and taro in medium spicy. It had a nice kick to it but I want to try to the spicier level next time. We also ordered the fried rice which was also good. The only thing I didn't like was the service. We got the hotpot 10 minutes before the fried rice and we asked the waitress to check on it and her response was "yeah, yeah" and walked away. Other than the service, the food is 4 stars in my book. Can't wait to come back with the BF to try the other hotpot options. read more

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The food is ok but we ordered 2 pots and the first pot came out after 30 min but the next pot didn't come out until 40 min after the first pot did. It was a company lunch so that was awkward esp since the general manager sat at the table with the super late pot. We spent like 2 hours there, not hat I'm complaining since I got an hour off work lol Food is pretty solid, and we got the chicken wing and intestine pot. It really puts away the rice haha I think I ate 3 bowls. read more

We ordered the Cat Fish Gan Kuo. It was so salty. They took the dish back to the kitchen 3 times to do something to make it less salty. It was still not eatable. The Clear Beef Noodle soup we ordered was also very salty. Not only the soup was not drinkable, the noodle had soaked up so much salt, it was not eatable. Will never go back again. It was like eating things soaked up with ocean water. SALTY! SALTY!! SALTY!!! The price was unreasonably high too! The Gan Kuo we ordered was somewhere around $25 + the additional $6 for special vegetables. There was not many pieces of fish nor the special vegetables we ordered in the dish ! For $31, the dish was filled with potatoes, cabbages, onions, and bean sprouts! read more

General Pot - A fish dish filled with potatoes, bean sprouts, onions, and cabbages,  very little pieces of fish for the price . - Chinese Near Me - Fremont, California

This place the server is suck had a attitude. I showing him the pics on yelps that what I wanted and he's told me I went the wrong place. But is it the signed sayin the front door, still telling wrong place lol smh read more

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bbq fish is really good. Usually is good for 2-3 people. Sometimes they have Tilapia, it is more delicious than cat fish. If we have 4-6 people, we will order a dry pot as well. It is also good. They are very busy at Friday noon. Sometimes we need to wait for more than half hour. But the owner and waiter/waitress are nice though. read more

Thought this place closed permanently but apparently still open so we decided to try the place out again. The food is a bit too salty for our taste and the wait time for food is a bit long. There was only one waiter that handled the entire restaurant, but he was quick on his feet that handled everyone. There are plenty of food to select from but nothing that caught our eyes. Overall, the server earned my two stars because the service was prompt for one waiter. Photo attached for the food ordered. read more

General Pot - Chinese Near Me - Fremont, California

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The dry pot fish dish so salty! I complained and they kept washing it in water and reheating it! I really think that any restaurant that has to go through this process 5 times without success should evaluate how to improve the customer's satisfaction after making a whole meal into a salty nightmare! They did not do anything to make it better for our dinner like offer to remake it or offer us another complimentary dish! Seriously, 5 times of washing the food and reheating it !! read more

When I want dry pot, I come here! One pot can feed three people for sure so don't over too much. The spice and ingredient are just great. read more

General Pot - Clam dry pot with beef tendon and 肥腸 - Chinese Near Me - Fremont, California

Go there if you want to be treated as sht. Ordered delivery from the restaurant. It took more than 2 hrs for the meal to arrive. We tried to connect the restaurant, the waiter was very rude and yelled at us saying they were too busy to take care of our order. Will never order from them again. read more

Must try this place if you like spicy chinese food! Spicy chicken wing pot is my favorite. Always busy at night especially on weekend but customer service was great! I usually get my order pretty fast! read more

Food: had the spicy noodles (ma la mien) and boy were they numbing (owing to the peppercorns). Although the bowl didn't look large at first, eating it became more and more difficult because it's literally noodles in chili oil with three stalks of bok choy. But it was good! Cost: average for Bay Area ($10) Environment: If I could describe this restaurant in one color, it would be mahoganey. Otherwise, it's in a nice shopping plaza and everything looked pretty clean. tl;dr Next time, DEFINITELY getting their dry pots instead! read more