Big Way Hot Pot (North York)

What is Big Way Hot Pot (North York)? Located on the ground level of North York's Hullmark Centre at 4775 Yonge Street, Big Way Hot Pot brings the Vancouver-born, pay-by-weight malatang craze to the Sheppard–Yonge corridor. The room is bright, sleek, and cafeteria-chic, outfitted with blonde-wood tables, deep booths, and individual induction burners built for solo slurpers and small groups alike. Guests grab a stainless steel bowl, load up from open refrigeration cases holding over 100 raw ingredients, weigh their haul at the cashier counter, and let the kitchen cook it down into customized soup bowls.

Big Way Hot Pot (North York) Menu & What to Order Start by building around the Signature Mala Broth, a slow-simmered bone marrow base spiked with Szechuan peppercorns that delivers tingling heat without flattening the flavour profile. Lighter palates gravitate toward the rich Collagen Bone Broth, sweet-tangy Tomato Soup Base, or an earthy Vegan Wild Mushroom Broth. Load your bowl with thinly shaved beef ribeye, house-made shrimp paste, fried bean curd rolls, enoki mushrooms, and chewy broad noodles, then swing by the sauce bar to mix a classic sesame-and-garlic dip. Balance the spice with an iced brown sugar boba milk tea and grab a complimentary swirl of matcha or vanilla soft serve on your way out.

Know Before You Go Tables are walk-in only, though diners can hop onto the digital Snappy waitlist remotely to avoid long waits inside the entryway during prime evening rushes. The restaurant connects directly to Sheppard-Yonge subway station (serving both Line 1 and Line 4), with paid underground parking available beneath the complex. Running daily from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., it stands as one of North York's most reliable late-night dinner spots.