What to have in a hot pot

Typical hot pot ingredients include a variety of meats, seafood, vegetables, legumes, mushrooms, egg products, vermicelli, etc., which are scalded in boiled water or a special soup base and served. Some eating methods will also be dipped in seasonings and eaten together.

Hot pot eating method is different from Chinese food, not the dishes have been cooked on the table can eat; but some semi-finished dishes to the table, by their own hand operation (cooking), since the hot self-food; dishes hot (cooking) food heat, in the hands of the diners. Therefore, diners must understand the hot pot eating method, in order to eat well.

Hot food soup must be boiling, to be all immersed in the soup hot food.

Extended information:

Hotpot soup stock that is the pot of the base soup, the most used is the red soup stock, followed by white soup stock (including pickled vegetable soup). Red soup stock, that is, spicy soup, with thick soup with chili peppers, bean curd, edamame, mash juice, rock sugar, refined salt, yellow wine, a variety of spices and other simmering.

White broth is made from old hen, fat duck, pork bones, ham elbow, lean pork, green onions, ginger, wine and other boiled broth, generally used in conjunction with the red broth, seldom used alone, or use often have to be dipped in some of the seasoning to eat.

Dipping sauces are an indispensable part of the hotpot, and are commonly found in sesame oil saucers, garlic saucers, pepper oil saucers, red oil saucers, spicy sauce saucers, Szechuan qi dipping saucers, miso saucers, and chive blossom saucers, etc.

These are the most common dipping saucers in the world.