Shanghai'd

You can always tell a huoguo restaurant when you are driving down the road, the steamed up windows give it away. Looking closer, you can see the sweat on the brow and the empty Qingdao bottles lined up on the wall as a group of people fish in the sunken vat in the center of the table. Ah, Hotpot, the great Chinese pasttime. As with all foods, each region in China has their own version of hot pot. From Dimsum-style individual pots in Canton to a weak watery lamb broth in Bejing to the laduzi-causing ma-la of Sichuan, there is one for each day of the week! (In fact, Tim has had 4 styles of hot pot in the past week and a half - Beijing, Chongqing, Chengdu and Shanghai)