HotPot

About ten thousands years ago, chinese ancestors used a huge tripod to cook everything which people could eat, especially meat. That is the earliest hot pot. Because of inconvenience, people devoloped small copper and iron pots to cook before three thousands years. With the technologic development, the copper pot was changed to electric cooker, induction cooker, and gas cooker. Please see the pictures on the right.Only in winter, people liked eating hot pot with meat many years ago. It helped people feel warm. Now, to explore the marketing of hot pot, the owner of restaurants always open air condition to attract customers to eat it in all of seasons. They also developed many special menu to adapt different citizen's taste. Like plain boiled pork hot pot in northeast China, lamb pot in beijing, assorted chafing dish in shanghai, chrysanthemum hot pot in suzhou, spice hot pot in chongqing, seafood hot pot in guangzhou, beef hot pot in HongKong. Even in other countries, we can see trace of hot pot which has changed to adapt the local customers' taste. For example, Korean has stone fire pot, Indunesia has curry hot pot, and cheese pot is also known in Swizerland.
In Edmonton, there are two restaurant that offer hot pot in buffet. For instance, The King noodles and hot pot is located in 10939 101 St.,and Asian Grill House Restaurant which is located in 9643 107 ave also offer baffet hot pot. They offer seafood, lamb, beef, pork, and kinds of vegetable.