Is This The World's Largest Hot Pot?
From China View: "Local residents dine around a huge hot pot in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 16, 2007. The huge hot pot measures 12 meters (39 feet) in diameter, and 4 meters (13 feet) in total height. The maker of the pot has applied for a World Guinness Record as the world's largest hot pot."
(What's a hot pot anyway? Wikipedia to the rescue: "It consists of a simmering pot of stock at the center of the dining table. While the hot pot is kept simmering, ingredients are placed into the pot and are cooked at the table. (...) Meat or vegetables are loaded individually into the hot cooking broth by chopsticks, and cooking time is brief. Meat often only takes 15 to 30 seconds to cook.")
[via Neatorama]
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4 Comments:
Um, I love hot pot, too, but how sanitary is that?
toastykitten at 11:48AM on 02/23/07
Yeah, right? I want to say I'd be too potentially grossed out to eat there if I didn't see the oil or broth dumped in fresh right before, but I love a good hot pot and I suspect if it were in front of me I would just go ahead and eat!
lia at 4:43PM on 02/23/07
Yikes..that looks like a baggage carousel at an airport.
You'd have to be careful you didn't drop your cell phone or sunglasses in there and have to fish them out.
Bob Ferrapuhls at 6:45PM on 02/23/07
I'm with toastykitten! There is no way that I could cook something I was going to eat in a community "swimming pool" full of boiling liquid. I don't care if the heat supposedly kills the germs, I just couldn't do it. I mean, at any given moment there are 40 or 50 people dipping their chopsticks in the thing. Even with a fondue pot people are always losing the things they dip. I don't want some stranger's shrimp floating past my slice of beef! Eating hot pot or fondue dinners together is an intimate thing that I won't do with strangers.
Calichef at 6:21AM on 02/25/07