There are variations as you will see in the picture, but the premise is the same. You have a bowl of boiling stock, you order pieces of meat and veggies, put them in the stock, let them cook and eat at your leisure. There is a set seasoning to it, I think, because a lot of them taste very similar ( = delicious ).
I've had hot pot in it's birthplace (don't quote me on that, but it's at least the most famous) in Chengdu, where the pandas are. There is the spicy capital of China, and it was much to hot to eat and enjoy. China spicy doesn't mean Mexican delicious flavor spicy, it means your mouth will literally go numb. Luckily there is almost no spicy in Shenzhen.
The pictures I have include: a super awesome hot pot place where the pots look like wizard hats and are also very dangerous because you have to navigate the large burning structure to retrieve food; the lovely miss Christiane modeling a standard hot pot table; and a close up view of a potato retrieval out of a hot pot where one side is spicy stock and one is standard soup.
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| Super awesome "wizard hat" hot pot place. |
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| The lovely Miss Christiane modeling a hot pot table with plates of meat slices, lettuce, and tree ear mushrooms. |
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| Up close and personal with a spicy potato. |
It sounds like a form of fondue?, you will have to make us some when you come back!
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