December 20, 2009

  • No Turkeys For Christmas

    As winter approaches, it makes me think of a wide selection of creatures in the animal kingdom…

    From land to sea, with vegetables indeed…

    From tofu…

    To noodles…

    Not to mention crab…

    And a custom dipping sauce of your own…

    The upside to winter is Chinese hotpot of course…

    Just add boiling water, and you’re ready to go!!!

    Reader, are you a fan of hotpot?  What is your upside to winter?

Comments (61)

  • Winter makes the hot chocolate taste better.

  • I've never had hotpot but it looks yummy!  My upside to winter is everything!  Winter is my favorite season of all!  I know crazy!

  • I don't even know what hotpot is.

    My upside to winter is winter.  It's my favorite season, by far.

  • Upside to winter, an excuse to get smashed at Christmas/New Years Parties and thus be too drunk to care about anything.

  • I love hotpot. :3 My upside to Winter is that snow usually falls and you get to stuff it down people's shirts. Plus you get free presents, hot chocolate and pretty trees.

  • that looks like it's gonna be one heck of a hotpot. good stuff.

    upside to winter? i guess just looking at all the snow when it's pristine, before the shovel trucks do their thing.

  • @PseudoLeben - it's my favorite too. So BACK OFF!!!!! 

  • OOOOHHHHH!!!! HOOOOTTTT POOOTTTTT!!!!

    We have hot pot every year for our Christmas eve dinner! Favorite thing EVER

  • i'm a fan of foooood

  • My normal  upside to winter.
    Christmas Eve/day with the family--not going to happen cause my brother will be in Iowa.

    New Years Eve with my old circle of friends, not likely to happen because the crew has been fragmenting in the past few years!
    Crap.
    Although a few old friends will be in the area so we'll be able to catch up.

    Maybe I should build a snow fort to compensate.

  • Upside to winter? skating/sliding across the icy patches.

  • Food.

  • @TheTheologiansCafe - Very good Dan! I'm proud of you 

  • HOT POT IS AMAAAAAAZING

    I love those jin zhen gu mushrooms!!

  • Upside to winter is snowball fights.  The downside would be falling all of the time...yeah, not the season for clumsy people...

    Martha

  • A nice warm cup of hot chocolate and some eggnog--but not together of course. ;)

  • Oh yummy I like your way of thinking.  I live 20 minutes from the Pacific Ocean and we did clams, crab fish and fish for salmon, sturgeon, trout and other fish.  We smoke them in a small smoker on our balcony.

  • I try to cook asian food but I always mess something up. You need to give us recipes. Vegetarian ones too. 

  • where are the oysters? the most epic moment of hot pot
    and the fish balls and whatnot.
    you have failed my tastebuds

  • I don't know what hotpot is. But my upside to winter this year is the peppermint mochas at Starbucks. Those things are amazing!

  • Thanks a lot! Now I'm craving huo guo..and at this hour! :P We call it "steamboat" from Singapore days. I LOVE it..especially with this Korean BBQ Satay Fish sauce we found..mmm

  • My upside to winter.... hmmmmm.... would be going somewhere for the holidays where I'm wanted and spending it with people who care. And of coursre freezing my ass of in the snow and hot cocoa after.

  • I love hot pot too =D

    My upside to so-called "winter" is the coolness in the morning. It can go down as much as 65~70 F in the mornings, but then rises back again to 90F during the day time. wtf..

  • Love hot pot. just had it last night! :)

  • OMGOSH HUOGUO!! i love hotpot!!!!!! but i get to have it like twice a week so i've never really appreciated it, i guess =.= YOU NEED PUFFY TOUFU :D and eggs! and cabbage! and clam feet! haha i'm so hungry now and its not even time for breakfast here
    ahaha and i noticed in your "land to sea with vegetables in between" picture, you have udon there, which is neither D:

  • Upside to winter.. is winter fashion.. love wearing coats! Much better than summer

  • Reminds me of the last book I read, The Last Chinese Chef.  Make one hungry just reading it.

  • Upside to winter: Snow, Christmas music, food, decorations, mmm... I guess Christmas is the upside of winter.

  • what is hotpot?

  • Oh that looks yummie. Your making me hungry!

    I've never done a hotpot. Looks yummie. My upside to winter is its actually nice out for a few weeks. Living in Florida is horrible.

  • What's hotpot?? I will have to google this. sounds good and easy to make. my kinda cooking.

  • The upside to winter is getting to wear flannel pajamas...duh!

  • Damn. That's a lot of fucking food.

  • Oh yes! Love hot pot! I like the one with tom yam soup too! Sizzling hotttttttttttt!!

  • Hotpots would surely give me an break from cooking dinner, but its more expensive than just letting me cook something up plus when my family wants hotpot for dinner it feels like they're saying that they don't prefer my cooking :|  

  • We dont do a REHASHING of thanksgiving in our house either. Its all seafood, and rice dishes and blackeyed peas. Cholesterol is DANGEROUS, but necessary.

  • yum hotpot
    but I like korean bbq more :)

  • I'm a fan.  I've been to several new moon festivals where I've partaken

  • Lobster.

  • Hotpot is always yum! <3

  • Yeah. Had hot pot for Thanksgiving.

  • Damn. My stomach is screaming at me now.

  • Oh man. Looking at all of those goodies is making me hungry. One of the most fantastic feasts I ever saw was when I worked at the Golden Bamboo restaurant. Each table seated 6 people. All of them had a Peking duck, a roasted pickerel, a variety of vegetables, lobster, angle hair noodles, and a beef and greens dish.  Did I mention all of the free beer and liquor?
    I need some shrimp with peppers and some ribs in black bean sauce right now!!!!!

  • No dogs Ricky?  I'm shocked.

  • Mmmm...that looks so good! My sisters boyfriend is from Thailand and makes the BEST egg rolls. I wish I could those kind of meals on a regular basis. =D

  • Just boiling water?  What about seasoning??? 

  • I saw udon--- you need not say more.  ~drools~

  • @maniac_rose - In Japan the hot pot is called a nabe.  I know our family had a ceramic one which was pretty common to see in Japan.  It's really large like a stew pot and rounds a the bottom a bit.  It's really heavy though.  You basically put the thing on add water, throw in a bunch of food, water, etc and let it boil.  There are different things to season the broth.  A lot of times people will take a portable gas burner and place it in the middle of the table and put the "nabe" or hot pot on it to keep the meal warm throughout the whole meal.  It's awesome.  This is the Japanese version.  From what I could tell on google it looks like the chinese way is similar but the pots used look a little different.  There is always more than one way to do most everything--.

  • @genkii_to_ureshii_risu - It sounds a lot like something we do around here. We take a big cooker, and fill it with water, and boil peeled potatoes, chopped carrots and pigs feet. it's yummy. Sometimes we use pig tails.

  • @maniac_rose - sorta like that except with different ingredients.  There is a lot of meat (pork, beef, salmon, etc.-- much like what was shown), tofu, cabbage, dumplings, sometimes carrots, daikon (white radish), ... But yeah, basically meat and veggies/

  • I LOVE HOTPOT!

  • what the...these pics are 4 years ago?! who are you to trick here...

  • Sounds good. I just made sugar cookies for breakfast lol

  • I love hotpots.  Every year, we go to my grandma's house on new year's eve, and have hotpots, and its way super yummy.  We also have fish balls and poached eggs in ours.  Seeing this reminded me how much I'm going to miss not being home for the holidays this year )-:

    My favorite part of winter is the snow.  I used to say that when I was a kid, and everyone told me, just wait until you have to drive in it, but now I've been driving for years, and my favorite part is still the snow.  It's actually more fun to drive in snow than in other weather, I think, because there's always the chance you're going to fishtail a little around a corner.

  • @ShimmerBodyCream - You're not using a wok, are you? =P

    @everlastte - @silentangeldying - @maniac_rose - It's sort of like fondue, but with water. You get a really delicious soup afterwards!

    @oldSkool_nyc - Water is much healthier. ;)

  • wo hen xihuan huo guo! la de

  • hot pot!......yeah we have those during special occasions.

    and we wrap all the good stuff in rice paper and dip it in special sauce...havent had it in a while tho

  • I only learned about hotpot this year whena few friends flew in from taiwan, I can officially say that I am now a fan =D shacha sauce is a new favorite.

  • Dear Ricky Cooks? The DRC?  I'm sadly rather boring in that I may eat and or want more hot foods. but I'd eat the same stuff in summer.

  • I used to love hotpot.. I go to icook buffet (hotpot restaurant) in markham, you should try it sometime (i think you're from toronto right?). i used to hotpot alot.. until recently, the past 2 years I havne't hotpotted at all, I've become borderline germaphobe, too scared to share germs .

  • i remember in China no-one would serve us cold drinks in winter, since the cold-on-cold was supposed to be unhealthy. One day my friend responded with :" don't you eat hotpot in summer then?"

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