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With the mercury remaining below freezing today, Gothamist thought it might be a good time to mention one of our favorite foods of the winter - hot pot. While there are many different types of hot pot, we tend to gravitate towards Szechuan hot pot to put a little fire in our belly. For those unfamiliar with hot pot, it's much like fondue in the way you dip various food items into a simmering pot. With Szechuan hot pot, one cooks various meats and vegetables in a boiling soup.
When we have Szechuan hot pot, Gothamist gets the split pot with half mild broth and half spicy broth. Despite our love for the spice, sometimes it just gets too hot. Once the pot starts boiling, preparing your food is very easy. Just pick up the food, cook it in the pot, remove and eat.
While we're sure there are many restaurants with hot pot out there, Gothamist has been frequenting Grand Sichuan near the Manhattan Bridge as of late. We've also been to Wu Liang Ye in Murray Hill in the past. If you're going for hot pot, we recommend getting beef, fish balls, scallops, spinach, Chinese cabbage, and any type of noodle. Grand Sichuan has several dipping sauces, but the most popular are the hot/spicy sauce and the garlic sauce, both for good reason.
A filling meal will run you about $15-20 per person depending on how much you order and both restaurants are accommodating of large groups if you call ahead.
Photo by Tien Mao
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I guess the Japanese ripped this off and created both Nabe and Shabu-Shabu.
As a lover of both of the above dishes, I am sure this will appeal to me very much! Nothing like cooking your own meal at a restaurant...heck that's where my wife and I went on our very first date, even though she didn't like Japanese food... ;-)
Slightly OT, but does anyone know where one could buy Asian cookware? Looking for a Korean crockpot, but would be happy with a hot-pot or similar.
i'm not sure who ripped who off about the hotpot idea, but if the weather's cold in the winter, wouldn't you rather be eating stew anyway? :) as for Asian cookware, i'd try chinatown, but bring a chinese friend for additional haggling prowess.
oh yeah if you're in flushing ever, hotpot places are ALL OVER. 'Yahu' (possibly known as Mimi's) with the orange awning off Main Street and 37th Avenue has individual pots and sauce stations so you can customize to your heart's content.
there is a place at canal and orchard called happy shabu shabu that i always frequent. its very chinatown-y with its video projector constantly playing lots of chinese concert footage, but its cheap, its clean, its good, and you get your choices of a lot of ingredients to put in your hot pot. also, its a hot pot only place, so you better want hot pot if you are going to go.
Also Little Lamb (Xiao Fei Yang -- they leave out the word "fat" in the English translation) on Main near Northern in Flushing, has kind of a Mongolian flair going on. Get lamb and those delicious scallion pancake bread things.
The Happy Shabu Shabu is the place, Peter! You know what's up. A friend and I eat there almost once a week, even in the summer. It is cheap ($30 max for two people, with beers) and gives you a plate of udon noodles and a plate of tofu for only $1 each. Its a nice undiscovered gem. Hopefully we haven't ruined that by trying to seem like know-it-alls. Cheers
what do people think of xo (near canal on walker?)? it's all you can eat for $20 and i was stuffed last time. haven't tried hotpot much ever since bingo closed down years ago, so i'm looking for suggestions.
hotpot is just not the same w/o the raw egg mixed w/ soy sauce + garlic + xo sauce and all that good stuff. Trust me, you're not getting the full experience w/o the RAW EGG.
The place up by Columbia is also great. Cafe Swish. Good stuff.