Sitting alone in a restaurant is not only painful, it's impossible to try all of what you want from the menu. Especially if you want hotpot. So the opening of this restaurant, which offers one-person shabu shabu meals, may be a godsend to lone foodies. Located in a high-rise building in Tsim Sha Tsui, 616 looks a bit too minimal in its decor – as if they spent the bare minimum on white walls and the identical furniture to go with it. The bar area and the two-person tables have miniature individual induction cookers (as opposed to the big ones for traditional hot pot). The menu features six shabu shabu sets of Wagyu beef, pork and crab legs. The one we ordered was $166 – quite a bargain – with Wagyu beef, vegetables, mushrooms and udon noodles. We also tried such a la carte ingredients as ribeye, crab legs and oysters (just $55 for four big, fat ones). The soup base, seaweed and katsuobushi (firewood fish), was a bit tasteless but it mattered little, as the food was fresh and rich. We ended up cleaning our plates - full but not too full and minus the usual post-hotpot glutton's guilt.

Best bit: The set menus are perfectly sized for a one- or two- person hotpot meal.