I talked about the deliciousness of dumplings a few days ago.  I have discovered something new and even better … HOT POT.

Ordering hot pot is pretty simple: you choose a broth and a bunch of food that you want cooked in the broth.  You can choose between seafood, meat, poultry, vegetables, noodles, tofu, etc.  Once you’ve ordered, you bring your sauce cup to the sauce buffet line and create a mixture of sauces.  I choose a random assortment of sesame oil, sesame paste, special sauce, peanut sauce, chives, and some other random stuff.  The sauce was unbelievable.

Once your food is brought to you, you simply wait for your broth to boil and start throwing food in.  I cooked things in batches: I started with a meat batch, then went to a tofu + vegetable batch, then just a vegetable batch, then back to meat, etc.  After being cooked, each of these batches were thrown into my wonder sauce for some extra added flavor.  It was wonderful.  Take a look:

All of the food you see, plus a huge pitcher of watermelon juice, plus Tsing-Tao (beer) was about $11 per person.  Oh my god I love hot pot.