The food in China is really profound. Recently, my classmates and I used to go to school together often study or discuss the difference between shabu-shabu and chafing dish. I know the difference between shabu-shabu and chafing dish quite clearly, while most students in the south think that everything is called shabu-shabu. So let's talk about the difference between shabu-shabu and chafing dish now:

Personally, I think, first of all, the action of cooking is different. The action of "rinse" is to quickly put meat or vegetables in the pot and heat them for eating (so there should be very few things cooking in the pot at the same time); The hot pot is a big pot to cook (you will see a lot of things cooked in the pot at the same time).

Secondly, the meat slices in the shabu-shabu are very thin, because this can quickly burn cooked food; Hot pot is not.

It makes it possible to put different things together in the pot (such as chicken, ribs, sauerkraut, seafood, etc.), which are not easy to cook immediately. However, hot pot can be eaten as a shabu-shabu, but shabu-shabu can't be turned into hot pot.