Robot servers and interactive animations entertain at The X Pot at the Grand Canal Shoppes

The robot servers await their orders at the new X Pot at the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Palazzo. The restaurant from founders Haibin Yang and David Zhao created the restaurant that opened its lounge in August and revealed its dining room in September. The X Pot offers a mix of interactive dining and entertainment that includes classic Chinese face-changing performances and visual projections on the walls that can make the room seem as if it’s inside an aquarium, among other fantasy locales.

“We want this to be an immersive dining experience,” Zhao says.

At its core, the restaurant offers a menu of Chinese hot pots with five soup bases such as creamy lobster or Sichuan spicy. A wagyu feast for two comes with a Himalayan salt block grill. Other delicacies include a lamb board, wagyu short rib, kurobuta pork belly, and sliced chicken. Bullfrog legs, pig kidney, duck gizzard, and black tofu also make the menu. Basically, diners pick a broth, add some proteins, and let them cook at the table. Robot servers deliver ingredients to the table.

While hot pots bring a sense of adventure to the meal, The X Pot also features entertainment through what it calls 5D animations, a $1 million projection system that creates optical illusions right on to the dinner table. Interactive cartoon animations, synced to every meal, take diners on a step-by-step guide through the meal, showing patrons how to cook dishes. That experience is only available in the private VIP dining room.

A robot server delivers dishes to a table — The robot server at The X Pot

An open kitchen under a thatch roof — A robot server awaits an order by the open kitchen at The X Pot.

A dark dining room — The dining room at The X Pot

Projections on the wall make it look like the room is inside an aquarium — 5D projections make the dining room look like an aquarium at The X Pot

A private dining room — 5D projections at The X Pot

Projections on the wall make the private dining room look like it’s in a different place — Projections on the wall at The X Pot

A case filled with wagyu beef — The wagyu room at The X Pot

A wall of wine sits behind a glass wall — The wine wall at The X Pot

A bar — Projections on the bar wall at The X Pot

A bar with a lot of liquor — The bar at The X Pot

A bar and lounge area — The bar and lounge at The X Pot

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