Foot and Fire

        Pechay, the native kind. Other green can be used. There is nothing like hot pot. First, because it's always a one-pot for us where we put all ingredients all at once and sip the soup. Second, we love the soup from slow cook like those in the bulalo and batchoy. Third, we have no patience for one at a time food trip. LOL Well, it is nice to try it once in a while, at home. Shabu shabu at home... Vermicelli or glass noodle is a better choice among noodles in the grocery.                          Fresh chicken eggs. Frozen items from the grocery: Tufo seafood and Fishcake.                          Kimchi on the side... The chili for the soup from China. I used the Vietnamese soup base bouillon for the non-chili soup. I do not like the peanut-vinegar accompaniment. (Even those prepared in the Beijing Shabu-shabu).       ...

By GERLIE M. UY Egg drop clear soup with wood ear mushroom and cucumber.   Sour Chili oil noodle...looks like our spagghetti in tomato sauce Noodle in chili oil with a hint sour pumpkin cake, (not sweet) hotpot soup, boiling hotpot stuffs Mantu, a siopao minus the fillings... not chinese... beef noodles bird's nest wood ear, green chili, chicken strips bird's nest vegetable with fresh noodle in oil with spices varied mushrooms soup bingka, chinese version noodles... TAW SHAM hahhaha Glass noodles and bean sprouts stir fry quail egg, mushroom and "spam" soup Dumpling in a sesame soup dumplings in a basket Lubid-lubid of Tianjin... not sweet Nothing inside. This is just a fried skin.. beef soup vegetable dumplings Bird's nest vegetable and corn cream soup

By GERLIE M. UY mmm some dried stuff for condiment Our good friend Noli treated us to a popular hot pot or shabu shabu in Beijing. This is a very good and warm dining experience especially that we feel cold outside after teading the Hutong sidewalks... Here are the photos of what we had. chili... chili for me...fish soup for them... dumpling and cabbage boiling point... thinly sliced (almost shaved) beef... peanut-sesame dipping sauce wheatflour noodle glass noodle with greenies, cabbage, mushroom, carrot and radish slice, duck blood, tufo slice,  frozen prawn log...   boiling.... with dumplings cabbage and more herbs baddette enjoys the hotpot like La paz batchoy... hahhahah here we are warmed and full... Shabu shabu in Beijing Hot pot in Beijing