We Had Hot Pot Today!!

We had hot pot for dinner today!!Since I have been studying so hard, and just finished a test today, my roommate and I decided to relax by having a great meal--Hot Pot! I don't know whether you guys have heard it or not. Don't worry, here I will first introduce it to you first:

Hot pot, or less commonly Chinese fondue, refers to several Chinese varieties of steamboat stew. It consists of a simmering metal pot of stock at the center of the dining table. While the hot pot is kept simmering, ingredients are placed into the pot and are cooked at the table. Typical hot pot dishes include thinly sliced meat, leafy vegetables, mushrooms, wontons, egg dumplings, and seafood. The cooked food is usually eaten with a dipping sauce. In many areas, hot pot meals are often eaten in the winter.

Actually, Hot pot can be very different kind in different areas of China. But as you know, it is really hard to have hot pot meal in America (at least for us who are living in a god damn remote area). So it becomes a precious and excited things when we can have hot pot. Anyway, let's see what we had today:

We have different types of vegetables, some can get from Walmart, some can only get from Asian market. We've got meat balls, actually, they're beef balls, which is my favorite. We also have tofu, shrimp, kelp (I'm not sure whether it is called kelp, the white stuff on the right, and it is a kind of seafood); in the pot on the right, we have mushroom, and dried been curd. That all ingredients we've got today. Even though the seems not much compared to what we have in China, we are still satisfied. The pot in the middle is the Hot Pot, where we put all we want to eat inside. Before we start, we prepare a delicious but spicy soup in the hot pot, which is used to cook the ingredients we're gonna put in.

Of course, we will share such a great meal with our friends. We called five of our friends, here they are:

Yeah, we look happy and satisfied. To be honest, it was kind of embarrassed that we ate like wolves during the meal. However, we thought it was fun when we tried to grab as much food to our bowl as possible. We were not really that hungry, we just did this for fun.

Ok~~ this is my life today. If you are interested in this hot pot, feel free to leave comments and I will tell you how to prepare it! It is really delicious!