Chinese Hot Pot, Popular Chinese Meal You Should Try

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Hot Pot

China has various kinds of delicious foods. Hot pot is one of the most famous. It’s a winter specialty in the north of China. Cooked in water or soup in pots made of copper, aluminum or clay are usually such food as lamb, beef, fish, shrimps, beancurd products and fresh vegetables. Paper-thin meat slices could be instantly luscious right after dipping into the hot soup in the pot.

A variety of sauces are available to go with the hot pot. Common ingredients to mix a sauce may include sesame sauce, sesame oil, soybean sauce, chilly oil, coriander, rice wine, preserved beancurd sauce and sweet garlic. A good blend of sauces would make a hot pot meal more enjoyable.

There are some ways to enjoy the hot pot. Each of them is easy to handle even you are a green hand. Here is one of the easiest ways to eat.

At first, pour the water, the best choice is the soup cooked by some nutritious food. Once the water or soup is boiled, you can begin your hot pot experience. Use the chopsticks to pick up a piece of beef, mutton, fish, vegetable, even a dumpling if you have ordered, put them into the boiled water and cook for a few seconds tominutes till they can be eaten in the right time. After this series of actions, you can pick up the food from the pot. Before you put them into your mouth, do not forget to dip the sauce which will make the food more delicious.

This cooking way makes you eat various dishes at one meal. The nutritious broth used in the pot ensures you can eat nutrition as well as the delicious food at the same time. It is a good way to warm up in the winter season.

From the quantity and quality of Beijing Hotpot Restaurants, these restaurants are the most famous loved by the local people.

There are basically two kinds of Peking hotpot: Mongolian and Sichuan flavors. The staple of both types of hotpot is lamb. The meat is usually sliced frozen so that it curls up into a tube shape. Then you place the meat into the hotpot, which is a copper pot containing a boiling soup base. After a few seconds, the meat is cooked and you dip it into a sesame butter sauce. The verb describing the action of cooking the meat this way is called 'shuan'. Other shuan-ables include beef (féi níu), frozen bean curd (dòng dòu fǔ), Chinese cabbage (bái cài), bean sprouts (dòu yá), and glass noodles (fěn sī). Spicy Sichuan flavor hotpot has a soup base which can be described as either super spicy or mildly radioactive, but the pot is often divided into half spicy, half non-spicy soup pots. The soup base for Mongolian style is not spicy, and usually consists of some vegetables and seafood.

The famous hotpot restaurants in Beijing are Haidilao, Donglaishun, Xiaofeiyang and others. Come to Beijing and enjoy the hotpot! A great and unique experience!!