If any of you have never heard of Hot Pot dining, this is what it looks like. You sit around a boiling pot of broth/oil and put various food items in to cook. Meat, noodles, tofu, vegetables, mushrooms are usually what we have but the Chinese eat everything from intestines to chicken feet. It is called Hot Pot not just for obvious reasons, but also because it gets spicier the longer it boils- and that is especially true for the mushrooms that act like sponges. Yum!