Hot Pot Cooking

So we had heard about it in Portland even, but until this week we had yet to go, and now we have gone twice. It is very delicious.

They start you out with a soup, both places had a spicy, a normal, and a mushroom. They had many soups besides these but they apparently don't translate well.

We then went to this central table that has all sorts of sauces and vegetables like green onions and other stuff good for putting in sauce. Lots of choices, and you combine them in your bowl and mix it up as a dipping sauce for what you take out of the soup.

You then fill your bowl of boiling soup with tasty things (besides the mushrooms which were already in, though you can add some if you didn't get the mushroom soup. They had beef, shrimp, clams, leafs, corn, octopus, and all sorts of stuff they couldn't name in English. You let the soup boil until the things you added are cooked and then dig in (literally, the clams are really hard to get out, even for those used to chop sticks.)

A very fun and delicious dinner.