Sizzling Mongolian BBQ House, Taringa

The fun of this place is experimenting with the different ingredients and sauces until you create a masterpiece of your own. This usually takes me two or three goes, by which times I'm full, can't fit anymore in, and then I usually forget what my great invention was by the next time I go.

The process is that you grab a bowl (sometimes lining up is the first step, usually it's not that busy on a week night), pick which meat you want (or combine them all, mystery meat!), and then pile your bowl high with vegies, and then add the sauces. A sign above the sauces advises one of each, and I would share my special concoccion, except I've forgotten it already.

You then hand the bowl over to one of the guys standing at what looks like a giant stove hotplate, and they cook it up for you, returning your steaming hot food with a flourish that's part twist of the arm and part threatening to drop all your food on the floor.

Return to table, eat, and then start over, trying to get the perfect balance.

It costs about $18 on a weekdays, $23 on weekends where there's a random buffet included.

Located at 144 Indooroopilly Road, Taringa, Brisbane.