For a place serving traditional southern Chinese dishes but prepared by non-Chinese chefs this place is quite good. Advice to the chef, cook the rice pots for maybe 3-5 minutes longer to create the crusty crispy rice bottom would make these clay pot rice dishes much more traditional and maybe better. Otherwise the types of toppings offered as a choice at your place is ideal. Service wise was decent to very good, given how this resembles a southern Chinese restaurant yet the servers are not Chinese. She did her very best to service my table real well which garners about 15-18% gratuities. The ambience was neat but I am not fond of snakes regardless if they are venomous or not and even fake snakes scare me, perhaps like Indiana Jones?

I've been to the "best" clay pot restaurant in Hong Kong (Hing Kee) which was quite frankly, very disappointing. The clay pot I got at Rice Monster was way, way better ... better rice, better pork, better flavor and texture. This is the level of food I expected from Hing Kee. That being said, the ordering experience on the iPad they give you is lousy and cheap. I would have preferred ordering on my phone, which is always a lousy experience too. Restaurant was clean and well lit, and very loud. It the ordering experience was better, I would have given 5 stars ...

Rice Monster is a hidden gem located in Millbrae's Social Eatery food hall. They specialize in Cantonese-style claypot rice, also known as bao zai fan, in which the rice is cooked in a clay pot with a variety of toppings to produce a delicious dish completed with scorched rice. As part of Social Eatery, patrons can take a seat within the food hall, place their orders on the provided tablet, and a staff member will bring the food an beverages straight to your table. Claypot rice is a personal favorite of mine, so it's always a special treat when I'm able to find a new restaurant that offers it. Although Rice Monster does have many of the traditional claypot rice flavors/toppings, they also have some unique ones that are lesser seen, such as the cha siu and steamed egg one that I ordered this time around. The claypot rice does take about 20 minutes to prepare, so if you're looking to enjoy this for your meal then I definitely recommend ordering it first so your stomach doesn't have to wait too long to enjoy it. The cha siu and steamed egg clay pot rice was in a single word - delicious. The salty-slightly-sweet cha siu paired well with the mild flavors of the egg, and the salty soy sauce you pour over the rice. I will say the rice could have been a little more scorched to provide the accompanying crunch that you expect from this dish; however, if you're really craving claypot rice and are in the area, then Rice Monster will definitely help satisfy that craving for you. If you're ever in the Millbrae area and want a one-stop shop for all your dining and beverage needs, then Social Eatery is definitely the place to go and be sure to enjoy some delicious hand-pulled noodles from Rice Monster while you're at it!

It is super cute inside kind of like a food court where there are variety of options. Super easy to order food through their iPad. The clay pot rice was super tasty and also had great noodles. They also had boba drinks and their fruit teas are delicious. Would definitely go back again.

So we got the Lap Mei Clay, Pork Ribs Clay and American Pork Ginseng Soup.Decent place for Bao Zai. We dined in and the place was pretty busy. The rice had crunchiness at the bottom of pot. Not a-lot of meat in the Lap Mei but it was yum. The Pork ribs were soft. Surprisingly the soup was nice and wasn't salty. Overall it's not that much food for Two people, I recommend getting four items. I would come back to try the noodles. Ordering was easy off a tablet. Service was friendly. Parking lot in front