At present, there are bone soup, fish soup and chicken soup in the hotpot restaurant. The common ingredients for stir-frying hot pot are soybean oil, salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, sugar, star anise, pepper, cinnamon, fennel, white pepper, orange peel, Amomum villosum, laurel (fragrant leaves), cumin, angelica dahurica, ginger, lily, shallot, garlic, yam, galangal, coix seed, lotus seed and so on.

The raw materials for making hot pot are butter, clear oil, lard, chicken oil, onion, ginger, garlic, lobster sauce, rock sugar, various spices, bean paste and pickled peppers. There are many ways to make hot pot bottom materials online, and the methods are similar, but the weight requirements of each material need to be controlled. The key to the taste of hot pot bottom material lies in the selection of materials, the proportion of spices and the mastery of heat. For example, if you choose low-priced butter, the bottom material of the fried hot pot will taste very different. This taste is not fragrant, it has all kinds of strange smells, and it is easy to bubble when washing vegetables. If the proportion of spices is not good, it will affect the taste of hot pot and the flavor is wrong. If the cooking temperature of the hot pot bottom material is not well controlled, the fragrance of the hot pot bottom material will be bad and will not be easily emitted.