To taste hot pot, we must first focus on "culture". "Hot pot means' intimacy'; Hot pot is round, meaning' reunion'; Hot pot uses soup to treat raw materials, which means' to be soft'; Hot pot does not exclude meat and fishy food, nor does it dislike cold food. The ingredients are not divided into north and south, and the spices do not exclude things. Delicacies and seafood, seasonal vegetables, tofu and vermicelli can all be put into the pot, which means' saving the world'; The combination of hot pot meat and vegetables, five flavors, main ingredients, ingredients and taste penetration also reflects a kind of' neutral beauty'. "

"Hot pot is the most intuitive embodiment of the profound meaning of" eating the same pot ",which can be said to be an out-and-out" shared food ". What's more, this kind of "sharing food" is by no means mandatory. You can choose your favorite ingredients and eat them while they are hot. This is a lively situation of "unifying your will and personal comfort". So from north to northeast, south to Guangzhou, west to Sichuan and Yunnan, east to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, almost no one doesn't like hot pot. "

After tasting it again, we have a deeper, more comprehensive and more systematic understanding of hot pot: "Hot pot is not only a way of cooking, but also a way of eating; It is not only a way of eating, but also a cultural model. "