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Also known as steamboat, huoguo, huo guo

Chinese and Southeast Asian dish

Key facts

Course
Main dishes
Place of origin
China
Region or state
East Asia , Southeast Asia
Main ingredients
Meat , vegetables , mushrooms , dumplings , seafood , broth

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
fondue
Country of origin
China
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Commons category
Huoguo
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Encyclopedic overview

Cantonese name Traditional Chinese打邊爐 or 打甂爐 Simplified Chinese打边炉 or 打甂炉

Hot pot (traditional Chinese: 火鍋; simplified Chinese: 火锅; pinyin: huǒguō; lit. 'fire pot') or hotpot, also known as steamboat, is a dish of soup or stock kept simmering in a pot by a heat source on the table, accompanied by an array of raw meats, vegetables and soy-based foods which diners quickly cook by dipping in the broth.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hot pot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.