Hotpot!

Well, I've finally found what I've been looking for ever since I came back from China: a restaurant in this country that does hotpot!. The place is one of the hundreds (or so it seems) Chinese restaurants up on Parnell St, and is called the Zen Win House. I noticed it on the menu last time I was in there, but it's a dish for two and the person I was with at the time had no particular interest in it. So, I went back tonight with Vicky!

Was pretty damn good, altho I would have preferred my half of the bowl to be spicier. We ordered the "double happiness" pot, which was half spicy and half normal stock - guess which I had? ;-) One of the things tho which I forgot about with hotpot is it's so damn hard to eat - you drop your meat/fish/veg/whatever in, and then you have to try to find it again in the bowl with your chopsticks! Ah, a bit of exercise sharpens the appetite eh? :-)

(For those who haven't had it before, it's a big bowl of soup stock on the table on a hotplate, and you get all the meat etc raw on plates on the side. So, you take the raw ingredients, drop them in yourself and cook them to your own taste.)