13 Facts About Hot pot

Hot pot is a flavorful broth traditionally served inside a large metal pot.

Hot pot is considered a main course and is usually served without rice or noodles on the side.

Typical hot pot ingredients include thinly sliced meat, leaf vegetables, mushrooms, vermicelli, sliced potatoes, bean products, egg dumplings, tofu, and seafood.

Later, a hot pot made with copper was created during the "Three Kingdoms period", which is generally acknowledged as the origin of the hot pot.

Since the 1990s, as the number of Chinese immigrants entering the United States has grown significantly, Chinese food has spread to the United States, and hot pot has moved to the forefront of the global culinary scene.

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In neighbouring Yunnan, although spicy broths are equally popular, there is another predominant type of hot pot that is made with various wild or farmed mushrooms.

The mushroom hot pot is seasonal, depending on the availability of local mushrooms.

In Hainan cuisine hot pot is generally served in small woks with a prepared broth containing pieces of meat.

Items supplied to be cooked in this type of hot pot include mushrooms, thinly-shaved beef or goat meat, lettuce, and other green vegetables.

In Hubei cuisine, hot pot is normally prepared with hot spices and Sichuan pepper.

In Cambodian cuisine, hot pot is called yao hon, though some regions call it chhnang pleurng, which literally translates to "pot fire".

Just like the Chinese version, Cambodian hot pot consist of similar ingredients although the dish differs in that coconut milk is used as the base of the soup.

In Cebu City, a specialty restaurant offers a "hot pot" that is literally a huge ceramic pot filled with cooked rice, choice of beef, pork, or chicken slices, special sauce, and choice vegetables such as broccoli, carrot, shallot, ginger, pechay, kangkong leaves, spices, and some slices of hard-boiled eggs on top; it is more similar to kamameshi than the namesake.