Japanese-style Lau (Hot Pot) - Saturday, April 12

After work, I was invited to dinner by an employer of mine! We went to a Japanese-Taiwan-Vietnamese fusion restaurant near my house.  Patrick didn’t finish work until 10pm, so unfortunately he couldn’t come, but I wish he was there because it was so delicious! We had hot pot (lau), Japanese-style, which is when you have a burner in the middle of the table and you put in ingredients and extra broth throughout the dinner to cook, right in front of you.  Everybody takes a small helping at a time from the pot in the middle, so it’s a very interactive experience (much like many meals in the Asian countries I’ve visited).  Hot Pot is definitely one of my favourite types of meals!

This particular dish was an assorted/mixed hot pot and had the following ingredients:

-          Meat broth

-          Jumbo Shrimp

-          Beef slices

-          Cabbage

-          Onion

-          Potato

-          Tofu

-          Mini clams

-          Dumplings

-          Corn (on the cob)

-          Mushrooms

-          Pumpkin

-          Sliced tomato

-          Clams

-          Fish cakes

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Ingredients for the hot pot, before being cooked

Ingredients for the hot pot, before being cooked

My individual bowl