1. Meat: Meat can be divided into animal meat and poultry meat. Common side dishes of livestock meat include pork belly, pork ribs, pork intestines, mutton, beef, beef belly, beef tendon, sausage, viscera of pigs, cattle and sheep, and pig brain flowers.

2. Poultry meat is often matched with these: chicken and duck meat, goose meat, rabbit meat, chicken tip, chicken wings, chicken feet, duck feet, chicken and duck blood, duck intestines and chicken skin.

3. Aquatic products: crucian carp, grass carp, carp, piranha, Monopterus albus, loach, river crab, river shrimp, sea crab, sea cucumber, cuttlefish, squid, fish belly, fish skin, scallop, jellyfish, Chinese cabbage and other seafood ingredients.

4. Vegetables: Chinese cabbage, spinach, pea seedlings, potatoes, lotus roots, winter bamboo shoots, white radishes, carrots, cucumbers, fresh peas, green beans, cauliflower, Flammulina velutipes, Pleurotus eryngii, Lentinus edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus, Agrocybe aegerita, tripe mushrooms, soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, white tofu, dried bean curd and water spinach.

5. Dry goods: dried bamboo shoots, vermicelli, hot pot powder, konjac, Tricholoma, Dictyophora, Jiangdou Gan, etc. The dishes in these categories are the most common collocation dishes in buffet hot pot. These meat dishes and vegetarian dishes have a very strong sense of collocation and are quite refreshing and delicious to eat.