# X-Malatang X麻辣烫, Garden Grove: a hot pot restaurant in Garden Grove (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/garden-grove/x-malatang-x-garden-grove-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 1 source. Updated 2026-10-22. Owner review: not yet. 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Its AI Score is 32 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Hot pot restaurant | | Address | 13908 Brookhurst St #A, Garden Grove, CA 92843, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sun 11:30 AM to 12 AM | | Phone | (657) 251-0314 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 3.9 across 34 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Sunday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | August 31, 2026, 10:39 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 13908 Brookhurst St #A, Garden Grove, CA 92843, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Description | X-Malatang brings the bold and authentic flavors of Sichuan street hotpot to the heart of Garden Grove, Orange County. We specialize in a build-your-own bowl experience to pick from a wide variety of fresh vegetables, meats, seafood, noodles, and toppings, then customize your spice level to create your perfect hotpot. Each bowl is freshly cooked in our rich, aromatic broth, made to order just the way you like it. Whether you dine in, take out, or order online, X-Malatang is your go-to destination for fresh, fast, and flavorful Chinese hotpot. ✨ Best customizable hotpot in Garden Grove to Your Bowl, Your Way! 橙縣最受歡迎的自選麻辣燙 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Name | X-Malatang X麻辣烫 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (657) 251-0314 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting X-Malatang X麻辣烫 Address: 13908 Brookhurst St #A, Garden Grove, CA 92843, USA. Phone: (657) 251-0314. Hours: Mon to Sun 11:30 AM to 12 AM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 10:39 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by X-Malatang X麻辣烫 on its Google Business Profile: "X-Malatang brings the bold and authentic flavors of Sichuan street hotpot to the heart of Garden Grove, Orange County. We specialize in a build-your-own bowl experience — pick from a wide variety of fresh vegetables, meats, seafood, noodles, and toppings, then customize your spice level to create your perfect hotpot. Each bowl is freshly cooked in our rich, aromatic broth, made to order just the way you like it. Whether you dine in, take out, or order online, X-Malatang is your go-to destination for fresh, fast, and flavorful Chinese hotpot. ✨ Best customizable hotpot in Garden Grove – Your Bowl, Your Way! 橙縣最受歡迎的自選麻辣燙" ### When to go Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Monday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | The Boiling Crab - TO GO | Seafood restaurant | 1 min walk | | Garden Grove Plaza | Parking garage | 1 min walk | | Hay Karaoke & Events | Bar | 1 min walk | | AA Food To Go & Restaurant | Vietnamese restaurant | 1 min walk | | Restaurant Lien Huế 2 Brookhurst & Westminster | Vietnamese restaurant | 1 min walk | | The Boiling Crab | Seafood restaurant | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 3.9 average across 34 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.) X-Malatang offers a unique DIY malatang experience but struggles with service quality and food safety concerns. (AI guess, from 34 reviews.) ### What people like - Spicy dry mix - DIY soup concept - Beef soup ### What people do not like - Found plastic in food - Limited selection of ingredients - Inconsistent service ### Press No press story about X-Malatang X麻辣烫 found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Listed on 2 of the 26 directories we checked. | Directory | Listed | | --- | --- | | Alignable | Not listed | | Angi | Not listed | | Apple Maps | Not listed | | BBB | Not listed | | Birdeye | Not listed | | Brownbook | Not listed | | Chamber of Commerce | Not listed | | Cylex | Not listed | | DexKnows | Not listed | | Facebook | Not listed | | Foursquare | Not listed | | Groupon | Not listed | | Hotfrog | Not listed | | Manta | Not listed | | MapQuest | Listed | | MerchantCircle | Not listed | | Nextdoor | Not listed | | OpenTable | Not listed | | Superpages | Not listed | | Thumbtack | Not listed | | Tripadvisor | Not listed | | Trustpilot | Not listed | | Tupalo | Not listed | | Yellowbook | Not listed | | Yellow Pages | Not listed | | Yelp | Listed | ## Recent updates from X-Malatang X麻辣烫 X-Malatang X麻辣烫 hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### do I need to book X-Malatang X麻辣烫 in Garden Grove or can I just turn up? No answer yet ### parking at X-Malatang X麻辣烫, where does everyone put the car? No answer yet ### bad experiences here, anyone? No answer yet ### does this place deliver or is it pickup only? No answer yet ### best hot pot restaurant in Garden Grove No answer yet ### Busiest day at X-Malatang X麻辣烫, anyone know? No answer yet ### same day tables, does that ever happen here No answer yet ### going rate for restaurants locally, any idea No answer yet ### last update from here was when? No answer yet ### anywhere cheaper than X-Malatang X麻辣烫 in Garden Grove that is still good? No answer yet ### Worth the hype at X-Malatang X麻辣烫? No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for this place? No answer yet ### killing time on Brookhurst, any ideas No answer yet ### Why do people rate X-Malatang X麻辣烫? No answer yet ### points or member pricing here, worth signing up? No answer yet ### anything I should sort out before a first visit at X-Malatang X麻辣烫? No answer yet ### anyone been to both here and Bò no? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about X-Malatang X麻辣烫 We ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity about X-Malatang X麻辣烫. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 22, 2026. Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 22, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 32 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Garden Grove hot pot restaurants run 25 to 49. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. X-Malatang X麻辣烫 scores 32, level with the Garden Grove average. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | X-Malatang X麻辣烫 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 38 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 28 answers that recommended anyone. 12 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 69 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a hot pot restaurant When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a hot pot restaurant in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including X-Malatang X麻辣烫 if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to X-Malatang X麻辣烫 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | X-Malatang X麻辣烫 | LocalBusiness | #business | Nothing found | Subject of this page | | Garden Grove, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City X-Malatang X麻辣烫 is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the hot pot restaurants in Garden Grove, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best hot pot restaurants in Garden Grove: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/garden-grove/hot-pot-restaurant - Best businesses in Garden Grove: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/garden-grove ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own X-Malatang X麻辣烫. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJt2_wMv4n3YARbuGt5uILHpQ (accessed Aug 31, 2026)