The reason why shabu-shabu should be served with sesame sauce is because not only does the freshly shabu-shabu lamb have a fishy flavor, which sesame sauce removes, but also because the temperature of the freshly shabu-shabu lamb is too high, which can burn your mouth, so you can cool it down, and also because sesame sauce is flavorful in its own right, which can increase your appetite, so shabu-shabu should be eaten with sesame sauce. Whether the shabu-shabu is good or not depends on the quality of the lamb on the one hand, and the quality of the dipping sauce on the other. Or rather, the level of the dipping sauce directly determines the level of the restaurant, and many of my friends believe that the taste of shabu-shabu depends entirely on the dipping sauce. I remember when I used to eat shabu-shabu either in a soup base with its own savory flavor, or with just sesame sauce, chives, garlic, and other seasonings. I don't want to see such a complete range of dipping sauces nowadays, but there are more than 20 kinds of dipping sauces in some of the hotpot restaurants, not to mention the basic sauces such as sacha sauce, beef sauce, and mushroom sauce.

But even more than the general category, it's usually the sesame sauce that's the mainstay. However, there are some places that don't serve shabu-shabu with sesame sauce, such as Teochew hot pot. If you go there for an authentic Teochew hot pot and tell the waiter, "Let's have a bowl of sesame sauce," the waiter will most likely reply, "I'm sorry, sir, we don't have any sesame sauce in our restaurant.

Most shabu-shabu dishes still require sesame sauce, and I'm so good at it that it's a little embarrassing to be asked by a friend if I'm there for the lamb or the sesame sauce.

When you eat shabu-shabu at home, do you feel that your own sesame sauce is not as good as the restaurant's, and some of it even tastes slightly bitter? We buy sesame sauce at home is pure sesame seeds, if not fake. And the restaurant in the use of sesame sauce is not only a kind of sesame sauce, which is also mixed with peanut butter.

The purpose of adding peanut butter is on the one hand peanut butter is cheaper than sesame butter; on the other hand peanut butter is thinner than sesame butter, and the sesame butter can be adjusted to together make the sesame butter taste more delicate; the last reason is that the simple sesame butter is a little bit bitter, and the peanut butter mixed with sweet children can make the flavor more good. So the hot pot restaurant's sesame sauce does not look as thick as your own home-bought sesame sauce, but the flavor is better.