Hot Pot Meal
Since Lewis and I both love sushi, we have been trying to find a decent sushi place in Mobile, AL. One of the places around our apartment, Konnitiwa, turned out pretty decent. After going there for a few times, Lewis noticed that they also has suiyaki on their menu.
Suiyaki is really a type of hot pot. Hot pot is really easy and popular winter meal in Asia. All you have to do is heat up a soup base to a boil and then dump lots of food into it to cook and eat. Basically everything can go in there. Beef, chicken, pork, seafood, fish, shellfish, dumplings, vegetables, fishballs, meatballs........ It is one of my favorite food.
Since Lewis also seem to like it, we both decided to buy hot pot and a meat slicer from Amazon.
The meat slicer from Amazon is great. For about 100 bucks, I get to have my meat sliced paper thin. The clean up part takes more time than actually slicing the meat, which is great. Having really thin slices of meat is great for hot pot because the thinner the meat is, the quicker it cooks. So instead of sitting there and wait for the meat for cook for 10 minutes, you can virtually just drop the meat there for a few seconds and get it cooked.
The pot itself is not exactly what I was hoping for. Instead of a wok, it is more like a skillet, which is not what I was used to. I am sure it is all just an illusion, but having a skillet makes me feel that it can't hold quite as much as a wok. At least, that's what it feels like. Turns out, it definitely holds more than enough to feed two people.
Then it is time to get whole bunch of food to put in so Judy can put them into her stomach later.
Really hot food, really hot soup, really cold day. Hmmmmmmm, good times.
Suiyaki is really a type of hot pot. Hot pot is really easy and popular winter meal in Asia. All you have to do is heat up a soup base to a boil and then dump lots of food into it to cook and eat. Basically everything can go in there. Beef, chicken, pork, seafood, fish, shellfish, dumplings, vegetables, fishballs, meatballs........ It is one of my favorite food.
Since Lewis also seem to like it, we both decided to buy hot pot and a meat slicer from Amazon.
The meat slicer from Amazon is great. For about 100 bucks, I get to have my meat sliced paper thin. The clean up part takes more time than actually slicing the meat, which is great. Having really thin slices of meat is great for hot pot because the thinner the meat is, the quicker it cooks. So instead of sitting there and wait for the meat for cook for 10 minutes, you can virtually just drop the meat there for a few seconds and get it cooked.
The pot itself is not exactly what I was hoping for. Instead of a wok, it is more like a skillet, which is not what I was used to. I am sure it is all just an illusion, but having a skillet makes me feel that it can't hold quite as much as a wok. At least, that's what it feels like. Turns out, it definitely holds more than enough to feed two people.
Then it is time to get whole bunch of food to put in so Judy can put them into her stomach later.
Really hot food, really hot soup, really cold day. Hmmmmmmm, good times.