Since we had American food the night before it was Chinese food night. Hot Pot is a Sichuan province invention. This province is famous for its hot/spicy food. The Hotpot is usually divided either to look the Yin Yang symbol or as ours is pictured above. A red and very spicy section along with a cooler (not in temperature) section. I cooked most of my food in the cooler chicken soup section and a “MaLa” outside ring for the numb/spicy soup where Cynthia cooked her food. You order the food that you were going to cook off of a list. We got pork, green bean leaves, another green vegetable, mushrooms, meat balls, rice noodles, eel, and pork intestine. I didn’t try the last two. By the end of the evening Cynthia’s lips had doubled in size but she was happy with her tummy full of her home province favorites.
Side Note: Pictured above is the Chicken Head that was in my Chicken soup.
