Sound like SO MUCH FUN! It will be wonderful hearing the play by play, thanks for sharing!!

Don't forget to get small strainer/scoops. for everyone. Extra long chopsticks for the pot.

Korean stores tend to have more ingredients, all pre-sliced.

Rice noodles for at the end for the broth.

dcarch

Have fun, John. I've never experienced "hot pot", I'm assuming it's kind of like fondue, but with broth and many things cooked in it?

Annie

sleevendog (5a NY) Yum. Too bad you live so far away. ; )

Just had my celebration dumpling fix in Flushing Queens.

Ha! I might have run into you. Judging from the angle of the sun, we both were there about the same time! :-)

dcarch

Man, I'm out of practice giving dinner parties. At least hot pot is easy. It is a fun sort of dinner too, very communal.

Here is the kitchen with dinner in progress. I'm making broth here. The chicken broth got seasoned with soy sauce, rice wine, rice vinegar, ginger, S&P. The beef broth needed a help from a whole jar of jellied beef broth I've been saving. I also marinated the scallops, mussels, beef, shrimp, and lotus root.

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The table set. We had several kinds of noodles, a few kinds of mushrooms, other veggies, fish balls, shrimp balls, and the marinated proteins. Not shown, but we also made pork & shrimp shao mai, pork & leek dumplings, pork short ribs, steamed buns, and other stuff. I also marinated and fried some mackerel, and simmered some other mackerel in sake, mirin, and soy sauce. The soup dumplings did not get made, sadly. Ran out of time and energy.

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And this is during dinner. The bald guy is a neurosurgeon. His wife runs their vineyard and they've started making wine, which is very good. He and I mostly talk about cocktails and guns. My friend from a big local semiconductor company talked to me about the current downturn in that industry. I told his wife she shouldn't be hard on their daughter for not doing well in high school physics, because our high school does a really terrible job of teaching that subject. My daughter took physics there and understood nothing; I couldn't figure out what she was supposed to do in her assignments, despite two years of college physics, their approach to the subject is so opaque. My son won't take physics there. My friend brought his new boyfriend (fingers crossed), who made fun of me by speaking Cantonese which I don't understand at all. There were some kids there, they had a good time.

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We cleaned up, mostly, and I went to bed at midnight. Got up at 6 am to drive daughter back to college. Actually she drove most of the way, she's finally learning to drive!. I was so tired that on the return drive, I had to pull over in a rest stop.

Okay, back to one pot meals and leftovers. I just haven't been cooking much lately.

Apparently I'm out of practice posting pictures to GW too :-)

Annie, hot pot is like fondue, I think. You have big pots of simmering broth on the table, and food piled up all over. People place stuff in the broth, then steal each other's food when it is cooked.

John, you never do anything half way. I so admire that! What an amazing amount of food! You're lucky to have such interesting friends.

Wow! What a culinary feat. Fantastic.

"Ha! I might have run into you. Judging from the angle of the sun, we both were there about the same time! :-)"....ha! Such an amazing neighborhood.

John, that trumps my whole Annual Family Christmas Brunch for 40!

Hi John, no wonder you were tired what a wonderful meal.

I helped prepare a Hot Pot many years ago but it was only for six people so a lot less work. That one was Brass with a sort of chimney in the middle. Yes those little wire baskets are very cute, and I remember the final broth was delicious.

John, that sounds so much better than fondue, where your food always falls off the fork and then you have to fish around for your own. Your way, you WANT it in the pot, and everyone eats what they spear, LOL.

Annie

Interesting ; where I come from a hot pot is something else! Lamb chops and veg cooked in a casserole with sliced potatoes on the top. Yours looks wonderful.