Hong Kong 16 - Hot Pot Restaurant

Another late night quest for food brings us to a hot pot restaurant in Causeway Bay, where it's just HK$88 per person after 11 PM (about $10 US). Shockingly, 3 cans of Carlsberg is only HK$10, which is like... 30 cents per beer. There's a hot plate on each table with a bubbling pot of broth where you blanch raw ingredients before scooping them out into your bowl with a metal strainer and then dipping in chile sauce. You get two hours to order, cook, and eat as much food as you want (or in our case, as much as you can physically fit inside your body). The menu of raw food items was expansive and eclectic, and included all manner of seafood, meats, vegetables, noodles, offal etc. For our first round we ordered pork ribs, snakehead fish, chicken ovaries, assorted meatballs, tree ears (a fungus), pork neck slices, golden mushrooms, and fresh cuttlefish. The second round had steak slices, taro roll, goose intestine, bamboo fungus, winter melon, shiitakes, squid, and you choy (a leafy green). We opted for the double broth (half mild chicken broth, half spicy) but we should have just gone for all spicy. By the end of the meal, the broth is rich and flavorful from having so many different foods boiled in it. Cold beer is an essential ingredient.

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