Setting up Hot Pot w/ wang sauce

[nature boy]

sorry, i think i'm busy in june. you know, when your birthday is lol jk, everyone knows your birthday is in october.

i had hot pot 4 times already this fall. lazy cooks ftw!

[geForce]

Haha, yeah... I've had hot pot a few times already this fall too.

Hot pot takes quite a bit of prep though... not really for the lazy.

[nature boy]

really? i'd think taking food out of the fridge and boiling some water and then tell everyone to make their own food is pretty easy.

[geForce]

You don't wash veggies? Take tofu and balls out of the packaging? Prepare the sauces? Cut food into hot pot friendly size?

Clean up is a bit** too... you use so many bowls and dishes for hot pot. And everyone drips their soup and sauces everywhere because you go back and forth from the hot pot all the time.

[nature boy]

you can buy pre-packaged hotpot food, no cutting necessary. i don't usually have veggies with hotpot. everyone prepares their own sauce, we just put out the stuff to use.

clean up is messy, but that's with a lot of different meals. we usually lay down a plastic disposable sheet to catch most of the soup and juices, but it hardly helps.

[Duncan]

depends if you buy everything pre-cut/sliced... some things are cheaper if you buy them whole and cut it up yourself (like squid)... but i suppose if you buy everything pre packaged, it's easy... but it's so much more expensive... i guess for someone who doesn't really cook, that's the way to go

[nature boy]

my father-in-law buys a lot of the prepackaged stuff. it's prepared better i guess. and i think i can safely say that he cooks more than anyone on this forum.

[geForce]

So the only stuff you have for hot pot is meat and balls? I guess that does require a lot less prep.

When I have hot pot, I always have veggies. I like to cut up the balls and tofu in half too, because it makes cooking faster and it's easier to eat that way.
For the sauce, I like to mince ginger, green onions, garlic and cilantro to mix into it.

[nature boy]

usually i have beef and pork balls (the fish balls are gross), sliced beef, chicken wings (sometimes), and those white noodle knots (you know what i'm talking about lol).

for sauce i beat a raw egg mixed with a variety of stuff including but not exclusive to satay sauce, peanut sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce and xo sauce.

i remember having hot pot with eddie in saskatoon and they premake the soup. they add a bunch of stuff first to make the soup flavourful before we start cooking. i didn't like it too much because they used waaaaay too much cilantro for my tastes (which is no cilantro whatsoever).

[geForce]

[nature boy]

yeah, the last thing i want to do when i get home is pw. oh wait. lol.

[geForce]

pw = pastor work?

[nature boy]

LOL yeah

i hate preaching at home man.

[tyson]

i'm in. hotpot is good stuff

[nature boy]

lol what? no one set anything up.

unless you're talking about gordon's birthday in april.