Food for thought...

[luscious_purple]

Longtime Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman has penned an essay about the "self-service economy." Nowadays we do a lot of things that other people used to do for us -- pumping gas, printing our own boarding passes, etc. But she drew the line when her husband suggested that they go to a restaurant where you get raw food and a hot pot and cook the

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[ivyf15]

LOL! Yummy Yummy Hot Pot (don't forget Shabu Shabu and I've also found that you do it for Korean BBQ too).

[pedropadrao]

I think fondue is fun, as does sister_devora. In the Midwest, I've gone to places where you pick out your steak or chops & prepare them on their grill.

[karisu_sama]

If she can't dunk a piece of raw food in a pot of delicious boiling broth and scoop it out when it's cooked to HER precise preferred taste, she's a truly lazy ass. :p

It's an ethnic dish, it's not a slippery slope that means next McDonalds will make you build your own burgers, it's a lot of fun, and the wait staff are very attentive about the drinks, broth refills, etc.