With the Winter coming down our doorstep, one dish that is will always be popular to warm us up is the Hot Pot. For the laymen who never heard of it, the Hot Pot (火锅huǒguō in Chinese) is at its base, a pot (bet you didn’t expect that one!) with boiling soup. The visitors to Hot Pot restaurants choose the ingredients, which can vary from vegetables and potatoes to all different kinds of meat, including beef, shrimp, lamb and even bullfrog.

[caption id="attachment_6380" align="alignright" width="300"]<a href="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hot-Pot.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-6380" alt="A hot steamy pot with delights for lovers of spicy and non-spicy!" src="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hot-Pot-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a> A hot steamy pot with delights for lovers of spicy and non-spicy[/caption]

If are are up for some new experiences and want something hot (and perhaps, but not necessarily, spicy) for the cold Beijing winter, City Weekend recently released an interesting articles, the Great Guide to Guijie.

You can read about it all about it over here:

<a href="http://www.haohaoreport.com/l/46871">http://www.haohaoreport.com/l/46871</a>

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Hope you have a good and warm Winter!

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LTL Mandarin School