Chinese Hot Pot Menu

(Chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2013-02-05

The hot pot (火锅 huoguo /hwor-gwor/) has a long history in China. It originated in the north, where people ate it to fend off the severe winter chill. It spread to the south during the Tang Dynasty (618 – 906). Later, northern nomads who settled in China enhanced the hot pot with beef and mutton, and southerners did the same with seafood. In the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911), the hot pot became popular throughout the whole of China. In some villages every meal of the winter is a hot pot meal!

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