hot pot

noun

Updated on: 18 Apr 2018

Definition of hot pot

1 : a stew of meat and vegetables

2 : firepot 2

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Recent Examples of hot pot from the Web

This versatile white fleshed fish can be prepared in a variety of ways, so keep an eye out for it on menus served as sashimi, traditional nigiri sushi, boiled in soups and hot pots, or even grilled.

— princess cruises, Bon Appetit, "5 Fish Sushi Lovers Need to Know," 19 Mar. 2018
To find traditional ingredients for an Asian-style hot pot, check out an Asian market.

— Sunset, "Asian Market Shopping Guide," 22 Jan. 2018
Delicious handmade dumplings, hot pot soup, roast goose, endless varieties of dim sum, and fresh baked pineapple buns washed down with milk tea are but a few of the tantalizing offerings that collectively make Hong Kong a food lover's paradise.

— jake emen, USA TODAY, "Discover Hong Kong street food in Kowloon," 22 Mar. 2018
Instead of rhymes about white lines, how about a nice spicy Chongqing hot pot?

— latimes.com, "Today: Immigration — the Path, the Politics and the Personal," 25 Jan. 2018
My coming-of age years were as diverse as a piping-hot pot of jollof rice.

— erica ayisi, The Root, "Make Wakanda Real by Embracing Your African Roots," 5 Mar. 2018
No small plates here though, only banquet-style serving dishes that bubble and steam at the table in the Chinese hot pot style.

— mark kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, "Best New Restaurant #6: 168 KTV Bistro, Madison Heights," 14 Feb. 2018
In the rural region of Wonju, down a winding country lane, sits a farm that provides dog meat to some of the thousands of South Korean restaurants where patrons order things such as dog salad, dog ribs, dog stew and dog hot pot.

— martin rogers, USA TODAY, "Inside the grim scene of a Korean dog meat farm, just miles from the Winter Olympics," 12 Feb. 2018
For Sichuan-style hot pot, people like intestines and aortas in them.

— momo chang, San Francisco Chronicle, "Q&A with Daihong Zhao, a Sichuanese culinary master," 9 Feb. 2018

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