Hot pot, (火锅，Hwuh-Goh)! How can one not love it. And hot pot traditionally is shared with family or friends. 

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How to have it

• Pick a soup for your hot pot
• Pick any raw materials you would like 
• Put any stuff into the hot soup and wait until it is cooked
• Dip into sesame sauce (you can even pick your own sauce), but sesame sauce is the authentic and a must for Beijing style hot pot   
• Eat 

 

Price: 200 Yuan ($32)  

 

Where to have it: Donglaishun, a well known restaurant  with a long history of serving hot pot since 1903. As shown, the charcoals are in the middle of the pot, which makes it so unique. There are many Donglaishun Chain restaurants around Beijing and the most easily accessible one is shown below.



Address: #198,Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng, Beijing, China

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​Xiabu Xiabu (呷哺呷哺,Shabu-Shabu), a cheap hot pot restaurant , is now super popolar among young local in Beijing. The difference is that you have your own pot fixed on a electricity stove instead of the traditional one that cooks with charcoals and shares the same soup with others.



Price: 30 Yuan( $ 5)  



Where to have it: There are many  Xiabu Xiabu chain restaurants in Beijing.   Here is just one near Tsinghua University. 

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Address: #28 Chengfu Road Haidian, Beijing, China.

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Fei tells the history of hot pot.