The way to eat ice hot pot is to add the prepared ice cubes to the boiled hot pot base and scald the dishes before eating. As you eat, the ice cubes melt. Due to the different boiling points of oil and ice, when diners scald the dish in a boiling pot and eat it, there are still large crystal clear ice cubes in the pot.
The ice in the hot pot lowers the overall temperature, making the hot pot less hot to eat