Peppercorn kitchen 236 Pacific Highway, Hornsby, New South Wales 2077

"Fantastic place if you like asian food. You choose raw ingredients and the soup base. I chose squid, octopus, beef and pork slices, kelp, sea weed, mushroom, konjiak noodles, potato noodles, greens, 1 prawn, yam, taro, asparagus spear (?) Once you get the soup, you can add green onion, crunchy chickpeas (never heard of this in Chinese restaurants), chili oil and more. It's so much fun to eat all these different types of food - veg and non-veg. Note that the minimum quantity is 400 grams. If you aren't careful, you can add too much. I had too little and then ended up with 460 grams which cost around $15 I saw couples sharing 1 large bowl. Seating can be a bit tricky. This seems like a very Asian/Chinese place. However, if you can gather courage, and can tolerate the sight of raw ingredients, you are in for a treat."

"WARNING: Expensive !!!!! $34 per kilo... ? This is both my first and last visit to this location. Really pricey when compared to other, better Malatang restaurants, even when compared to the city's N0.1 Malatang restaurant. If you're wanting Malatang, you might as well take the train from Hornsby to the city because the portion for one person is believed to be around $27 per bowl here, which is incredibly pricey compared to average of $15-18 for one person in the city. Additionally, if you requested takeout from this restaurant, they would charge you $1 for a takeout container during payment...... A bowl of Malatang and a train ticket to Eastwood or City still cost less than one person's meal at this restaurant."

"They are ripp-off! $26 for this (with drink)! ? May be no other option in Hornsby? Lack of staff, food was waited for long, not recommended if you only have a short lurch break. Because lack of staff, no one cleaning the table. For the food most of noodles was over cooked, very softened. I don’t like this soup based either, not really malatang."

"Just recently discovered this gem in my local Westfield. We were pleasantly surprised at how good the food was. The concept is simple- you choose from the selection of vegetables, meats, seafood and different fish, seafood and meat balls. Then you take it to the counter and you pay by the weight. For $17 per 500gms, you get to select the soup base and they cook it for you. The best was the malatang soup base, a beef bone based soup. You can have a vegetarian option too. Since discovering it a few weeks ago, we've been there at least 4 times. It's that good!"

"A very good place to have some hot dishes with the ingredients you can chose yourself. They will weight the items you’ve selected and then charge $15 per 500grams. The default broth is so tasty and perfectly matching the ingredients offered. Seating is available enough. Electronic payments will attract surcharge of 1% per transaction."