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My Favorite Food

Different people have different favorite food. As for me, I like to eat different food, such as noodles, fast food, banana, pear, and so on, but my favorite food is hotpot. When I was 6 years old, I didn’t know what is hotpot. At one of the Chinese holiday nights, our dinner was hotpot. I was so curious at that time. My family prepared the dinner. That was my first time to try the hotpot, and it became my favorite food.

There is no proper word to substitute hotpot. This food consists of slices of meat, various kinds of vegetables, mushrooms, fish, chicken, noodles and soup (meat stock). After boiling broth, we can put what you want to eat into the broth. When it is cooked, we can eat. I really like this food. Actually I like meat so much, especially when it is roasted. However, I was almost addicted and ate 3 times a week. There is specific restaurant I prefer. That restaurant is near my hometown. They make hotpot as kind of fashion. The origin broth is just meat stock, but they also add something in that I didn’t know. They use mustard and soy bean sauce for meat. They also make some sauce by themselves. When you eat meat, you can eat with this sauce. It makes meat more delicious. Finally, after eating all the meat and vegetables, you can add noodles in the broth. It is really good, too. This is my favorite food.

Hotpot is easy to cook. You can add what you want to eat. And at the same time you can eat too much different food. It tastes great. If you haven’t tried this food yet, you should. Try hotpot!

- Ling