Hot Pot

In China, it is a common meal to have a pot of boiling water (with spices) in the middle of the table while the raw meat and vegetables sit nearby. This whole process of "eating fresh out of the pot" is called Hot Pot - how creative huh? About a 2 minute bike ride from our apartment there is a hot pot restaurant, yet it is a bit of a different experience for two main reasons: 1) Instead of ordering your food, you shop for it like in a grocery store; and 2) instead of one big pot in the center of the table, each person gets their own "mini pot" to eat from. Here are a few of the pics from tonight that I was able to capture before my camera died.

Shopping for some noodles...yum :)

Now for the meat.

While it looks like we eat like rabbits with only spinach on our table, we DID order other things as well!

Good ole MSG ;)

Making our own dippins'