Hot pot has been a favorite Vietnamese dish

You may not be a 5-star chef, but you can cook up a treat for yourself anyway at a do-it-yourself hot pot bar.

Hot pot has been a favorite Vietnamese dish for eons and is indispensable on special occasions like birthdays and new-year parties.

The dish has recently developed into lau bang chuyen (hot pot bar) in Ho Chi Minh City, where the choices for what goes into a hot pot are delivered on a conveyor belt that moves around the tables. The dining cooks can choose what they like, and can cook and serve themselves without anyone’s help.

They can enjoy their food alone or in a group. The hot pot bar brings enjoyment to customers in a no-mess, hassle-free and self- cooking experience.

If they are swift-handed and sharp-eyed, they can combine many soups of various hot pots with each other such as mushroom soup, Thai hot pot soup, and Japanese hot pot soup, to create a unique taste.

Where are the hot pot bars?

It is not difficult to find a restaurant with a hot pot bar in Ho Chi Minh City, but Kichi Kichi Restaurant and Coca Express Restaurant are two of the most popular.

At Kichi Kichi Restaurant, you can discover plentiful hot pots such as Japanese Shabu Shabu hot pot, Thai hot pot, and Sichuan style hot pot.

The dishes are prepared carefully over many hours. They are cooked from stewed bone, extracts from more than 20 kinds of mushrooms, 15 sorts of herbs, and more than 10 kinds of esoteric spices.

At Coca Express Restaurant, the menu often varies on a seasonal basis to make dishes abundant in order to attract customers.

The fresh seafood and luscious meat at Coca Express Restaurant are mixed with the natural flavors of vegetables and mushrooms.

How wonderful it is that customers can enjoy hot pot bars and forget about the worries of work. They can go with their families and friends to enjoy such bars, which are very popular in Japan and Singapore.

Thanhnien new

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Travel news November 2009