ER Hot Pot has two midtown locations and is always busy! We joined the (Minitable) waitlist online, and our table was ready in around 45 minutes for Sunday dinner. I would recommend joining the waitlist before you plan on arriving. It is a more premium hot pot experience where you pay per item. The restaurant is hip with bright neon signs and clean with bins to store your belongings so they don't smell like hot pot. We opted for the two types of broth - pork leg bone and spicy. The spicy broth definitely had the mala/numbing flavor so be prepared (but maybe l'm a baby for spice). I found the broth to be rich and flavorful, while not too fatty. The ingredients were incredibly fresh, but it is pricier than other AYCE hot pot options in Manhattan Chinatown. Favorite ingredients were the Class A beef roll, taro, quail eggs, enoki mushrooms and handmade noodles (so chewy and delicious). They have some exotic dishes too like tripe, feet, pig ears, etc. For a party of four with some non-alcoholic beverages, the bill came out to ~$150 (~$38 pp) and we left incredibly full and satisfied. I would recommend ER Hot Pot if you are in Midtown looking for a more upscale hot pot experience without too long of a wait.