開飯囉!! Hawt pwot! :D

今晚天氣仍然涼涼地, 又撞正 day off, 所以我們又擧家出動, 食食食喇! 今晚嘅主角就係 打邊爐! 暖笠笠, 拾下拾下, 有助家人聯誼. :D

Tonight's weather is still a little chilly. It happens to be my day off, so we decided we should all go have some hot pot. :D Hot pot has the effect of warming people up, promoting arm and fingers exercise and improving family communications. :D

To start off the meal, we helped ourselves with different sauces. I took some roasted garlics, chilly pepper soy sauce, satay sauce, ginger and onions and extra hot chilly sauce! :D Yum Yum.

Then it's the wait! :D



Waiting for the pot to boil up was torturous! :D

And then we gathered our veggies. :D We've got bok choy, tong ho choy (唐蒿).

Tong Ho Choy is my favorite hot pot veggies. It's fragantly and full of flavors.

Bok Choy is always a safe choice. :D

Here's our seafood mix. We were rationed a plate of shrimps, crab, mantis shrimps and scallops.

They were all quite fresh.

MmmMMm... nom nom nom.. :D

Fresh water crabs are fresh! :D

Cooked Mantis Shrimps. Most people in Hong Kong call them peeing shrimps. I don't really like small ones. :D Suddenly, I remember those huge ones at the Harbor View Hotel early these year. mmMMMm..

Big shrimps! :D Are you quite envy of me now? :D

The Hawt Pwot (Mike's version of Hot Pot) in action. :D

Left: Chicken and beef; Right: Fish skin dumplings, squid meat balls and some golden stock mushrooms. :)

Some gruesome stuff! :D

Well, oysters aren't gruesome. But we have here are pig's intestines (粉腸) :D

These balls are made of tofu skin. I don't touch these, but they are my mom's favorites.

Last but not least, we had some clams and long shell clams! :D


They were so sweet!

I wish there were more of these. :D But we were quite full by then. :)

The meal doesn't complete until you have a bowl or two of the hot pot soup! :D It has all the essence of the meat and seafood and veggies. It's the sweetest soup in the world. :D