The Cantonese word for "eating hot pot" is: making a side stove.

Hot pot, called "antique soup" in ancient times, is named after the "plop" sound when food is put into boiling water. It is an original food in China with a long history. According to textual research, there were hot pots in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi wrote the poem "a suggestion to my friend liu": "there's a gleam of green in an old bottle, there's a stir of red in the quiet stove. There's a feeling of snow in the dusk outside, what about a cup of wine inside?? " It vividly described the scene of eating hot pot at that time. By the Song Dynasty, eating hot pot was very common among the people. In Lin Hong's cookbook Shan Jia Qing Gong in the Southern Song Dynasty, eating hot pot with friends was introduced. In the Yuan Dynasty, hot pot spread to Mongolia and was used to cook beef and mutton. By the Qing Dynasty, hot pot was not only popular among the people, but also became a famous "palace dish" made of pheasant and other game.

Generally speaking, hot pot is a cooking method that uses a pot as a utensil, uses a heat source to boil the pot, and uses water or soup to boil the food. At the same time, it can also refer to the pot used in this cooking method. It is characterized by cooking while eating, or the pot itself has the effect of heat preservation, and the food is still steaming when eating, and the soup is integrated. There are similar dishes all over the world, but they are particularly popular mainly in East Asia. Hot pot is hot now, spicy and salty, oily but not greasy, sweating profusely, very hearty, relieving depression and dehumidifying, suitable for the climate of mountains and rivers. Today, it has developed into a Yuanyang pot, which is spicy and light, and each needs its own needs. Xian Yi, young and old, is the best in winter.

Typical hot pot ingredients include all kinds of meat, seafood, vegetables, bean products, mushrooms, eggs and so on, which are cooked in boiled water or the bottom of a special soup pot. Some ways of eating will be dipped in seasonings and eaten together.