Kanpai BBQ & Hotpot in Rockville, MD: the best dinner-only cuts for a night out

Kanpai BBQ & Hotpot at 1701 Rockville Pike in Rockville, MD is a Southeast Asian BBQ and shabu shabu buffet, and the evening is when its menu is at its biggest. Four grill items appear only at dinner, and they are the best reason to book a night out here.

The dinner-only grill items

The menu marks four items as dinner only: marinated galbi, ribeye steak, thin-cut beef tongue and spicy Argentina squid. They join the all-day grill list of spicy beef, brisket, rib finger and satay beef, plus lemongrass chicken, Thai curry chicken, sweet garlic pork belly and cumin lamb. Everything is marinated with Southeast Asian spices and sauces and cooked on the grill at your table.

Pick your broths

Next to the grill, the table cooks in a shabu shabu pot. The big pot takes two soup bases and the small pot one, chosen from Laksa, Tom Yum, Spicy Green Mala, Original and Shabu Shabu.

Price and hours

Adult dinner is $45, all you can eat. Kid dinner is $16 for ages 4 to 6 and $22 for ages 7 to 10. Kanpai is open Sunday to Thursday from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. and on Friday and Saturday from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m., and it holds 4.7 stars from 751 Google reviews. To book a table, call (240) 669-8394 or reserve online from the Google listing.