Chinese Hot Pot is definitely a recommendation for places to go while on your china travel. With an impressive seating area and excellent hospitality you can’t be disappointed. Ask the receptionist at your China Hotels to make reservations for you as the restaurant can get very busy. It might help to order your food before you go as the menu is all in Chinese. So if you can get someone who can speak Chinese and knows the menu might be a great help to translate the menu in one of these unique restaurants (unless you can speak Chinese of course.)
On arrival to the restaurant there is a seating area indoors but outside the restaurant while you wait to be taken to your table. Here, the waiter/waitress will offer you drinks and light snacks. There are also games you can play such as chess, dominoes and card games. After a short wait of about 10 mins minimum you’re taken into the Hot Pot restaurant area. As you sit down there is a simmering metal pot of stock in the middle of the table. While the pot is kept simmering, ingredients are placed in the pot to make soup. There is variety in the choice of soup, for example chicken and mushroom, Chilli, chicken, vegetable.
Empty Chinese Hot Pot
Some of the foods cooked in the Hot Pot include, Chicken, Beef, pork and fish. Also vegetables are available such as potatoes, cabbage, mushrooms. You can also order pasta strips and egg dumplings. While you’re in the restaurant waiting for the Hot Pot to boil you can help yourself to a range of sauces to dip your cooked meat and vegetables in. These sauces include chilli sauce, garlic sauce, beef sauce, fish sauce, teriyaki sauce, oil and many more.
On returning to your table you will find your soup boiling away in a pot. There is about 4 serving spoons so that you can scoop the meat and vegetables from out of the Hot Pot and place them on to your plate. Once you have chosen the meat and vegetables that you want then you can dunk them in to your sauces. The Hot Pot lasts for about three hours. You can continue to add foods into your Hot Pot throughout the whole evening. The waiter is there to keep taking your order and fill your Hot Pot with boiling water.
Two hours later
You can also ask the chef to show you the dancing pasta. The dancing pasta is where one of the chefs brings out a tray of uncooked pasta from the kitchen and dances around the table spinning pasta around. He spins around and breaks out a couple of dance moves then folds down the pasta strings and places them into the boiling Hot Pot. When the pasta is cooked they are like noodles and can put them onto your plate adding meat, vegetables and some of the sauce from the Hot Pot. It tastes absolutely delicious. Beware though they do not sell Green Tea in this restaurant they only offer juices and soft drinks.
There are many Chinese Hot Pot restaurants in China so choose when you’re staying in your Beijing Hotels don’t forget to add Chinese Hot Pot to your list of things to do.
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