With these people. Picture taken with famous celebrity Kris Aquino when she featured the restaurant in her now defunct daily talk show.
Hotpot restaurants are a must-go wherever we are in Asia. Sadly we haven't been to one in the Toronto area.
Tien Hsiang (Taipei). This is communal. We picked a medicinal soup base.
Gloriamaris Hotpot (San Juan). This is communal but one pot is not enough for us =]
This is my own [bowl]. I make them pretty good. I must! For the soup base - whole chicken (or bones), cabbage, garlic, tong chai (preserved vegetable), bonito flakes, salt & peper to taste. Easy peasy! No secret ingredient and no flavour enhancer. And then I just throw in sliced meat, leaf vegetables, noodles, sweet corn, meatballs, crabsticks, tofu and whatnot.
I continue to use a lot of the hotpot items in our daily dishes, including Sushi's bento.
Fish Tofu with beans w/enoki, taro bread slices, fruit cup sans its juice
Crabsticks & fishballs with onigiri, grapes, apple, rice crackers
I love hotpot too! Especially on a raining day. We had it quite often at home, easy to prepare and nice to eat.
ReplyDeleteYes, hotpot items can be a good choice for the bento fixing.