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Chinese Hot Pot Must-Try Ingredients🍲🥬
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items I have hot pot at least 1-2 a month and it is definitely my favorite food in the colder winter months. I've been a foodie ever since I learned how to cook. I love hot pot because it's simple, warm, comforting, and allows me to try variety of differen...
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Hot Pot Materials
Meat
Seafood
Veggies
Soup Base
Dipping Sauce
Hot Pot Materials
This is the hot-pot specific equipment I use for a sucessful hot pot night.
A big hot pot for family-style hot pot that allows you to heat up 2 broths at the same time.
Stainless Steel Dual-Sided Electric Hot Pot
These mini scoopers are a game changer for fishing out toppings floating around in your hot pot broth. My family always uses these scoopers for our hot pot nights and they're super convenient. We've all been there where someone's trying to pick up a ...
Mini Hot Pot Strainer Scoops
Meat
Meat I love to have in my collection of hot pot toppings.
This beef ribeye sliced roll that is more lean than fatty which gives you good a bang for your buck.
Frozen Beef Ribeye Sliced Roll
Beef short plate sliced roll with a balanced fat to meat ratio.
Thin-Sliced Beef Short Plate Roll for Hot Pot
Seafood
My go-to seafood item for hot pot.
Imitation lobster ball that adds a nice bouncy texture to your hot pot.
Best Frozen Imitation Lobster Ball
Veggies
Some of my go-to veggie recommendations for hot pot.
Huge and fresh napa cabbage
Napa Cabbage
Fresh and delicate Shanghai Bok Choy
Shanghai Bok Choy
Fresh enoki mushrooms for some texture in your hot pot.
Enoki Mushrooms
Oyster mushrooms to add a mild flavor and meaty texture when cooked in your hot pot.
Oyster Mushrooms
A fresh and sweet pumpkin to slice and add to your hot pot. Once the kabocha cooks, it is quite soft and adds a perfect sweet bite.
Kabocha
My #1 top hot pot ingredient. Bean curd rolls made with a thin layer of tofu skin, perfect for soaking up the soup like a sponge.
Little Sheep Bean Curd Rolls
Tofu to add some variety into your hot pot protein mix. I like this firm tofu, rather than a soft tofu in my hot pot so it does not break apart easily.
Firm Tofu
Soup Base
Some of my favorite, easy soup bases. Plain soup bases(plain and mushroom) and spicy soup bases.
This is one of my favorite hot pot soup bases. It is a quick and easy powder-based plain hot pot soup base. The broth goes well with any hot pot topping you add to it.
Plain Hot Pot Soup Base
Dipping Sauce
My must-have hot pot sauce ingredients.
Ponzu sauce to dip your hot pot meats and ingredients into. Ponzu sauce adds the best citrusy flavor.
Kikkoman Ponzu Soy Sauce
My favorite sesame seed oil. A few drops of this liquid gold goes a long way in my dipping sauce
Kadoya Roasted Sesame Oil
If you feel like something is missing from your hot pot sauce, it might be black vinegar. I love adding the slightest amount of black vinegar to my sauce for some extra tang. It makes your sauce taste like a dumpling dip. A little black vinegar in yo...
Black Vinegar
I loveeee green onions in my dipping sauce and these green onions are super cheap. It adds a nice onion-y kick and pairs well with the garlic in the dipping sauce.
Green Onions
As a garlic gorl, I love mincing up garlic and adding sliced scallions into my hot pot dipping sauce. It adds a nice fragrance and flavor.
Sleeved Garlic Pack
Noodles
Love me some noodles in my hot pot!
If I could only have one noodle in my hot pot, it would be these sweet potato noodles because they have such a chewy texture. Beware to not overcook them or forget about them because they tend to sink and melt into a goop if you don't eat them quick ...
Sweet Potato Starch Noodles
I love konjac noodles because they don't get overcooked easy in hot pot like other noodles do. I tend to put a lot of toppings in my hot pot and sometimes forget about the noodles I plop in there to cook and they sink to the bottom. I can always coun...
Spring Farm Konjac Knot Yam Noodles 200 g