For many Vietnamese people, hotpot is a great familiar dish. It can be a meal for everyone and also a socially option for every kind of party: birthday party, holiday, meet up,...
Every one sits around a boiling pot to share food and joy.
Lẩu riêu cua bắp bò - Mince crab & beef hotpot
It is impossible to refuse hotpot in some cold day like this. That is so good when sit down side by side, warmed up with hotpot and drink a little bit liquor.
There is no right and wrong way of eating hotpot. It is customized and you can put any ingredient you love. Meat, vegetable, mushroom,.. or whatever the hell else you want on your table.
You can do it carefully, slowly by putting litle by little, one by one into pot or you can just randomly throw everything in.
Thai seafood hotpot
There are so many kinds of hotpot in Vietnam. But all of them has one thing in common: warm and rich of taste which comes from dipping every stuff into boiling pot. Vietnamese people is always able to make amazing hotpot with a variety of ingredient: pork, beef, chicken, seafood,....
You may feel a little bit chaotic but that combination will bring amazing flavor.
And the best flavor will come at the end when everything has been cooking together.