"How spicy can you eat?"
This is a poster posted on the streets of Copenhagen, the danish capital, for a restaurant called "Hot Pot Republic" (Hot Pot Republic).
A TikTok video captures a hot scene in this Nordic restaurant. Red lights, a Peking Opera face on the wall, the house is full of foreigners. Some of them gathered in small groups, and some of them were in groups of four or five, sitting around the hot pot. They took chopsticks in a similar manner, carefully fished the meat from the pot, dipped it in the sauce dish, and then slowly put it into their mouths. In front of the steaming hot pot, everyone talked and laughed, and it was very lively.
Nordic hot pot restaurants are very popular
Recently, more and more foreign friends are posting videos related to hot pot on TikTok. The data shows that on the TikTok platform, videos with the hashtag #hotpot have been played more than 5.6 million times.
@cookingbomb is a food internet celebrity blogger, Chinese named Yuan Qianyi. She teaches foreigners to cook Chinese food on TikTok and has gained 1.7 million followers, with an average of hundreds of thousands of views per video. Among them, a video of nostalgia for Sichuan hot pot received more than 50,000 likes. There are also many people who want to eat hot pot in the message area.
Food blogger @cookingbomb share Sichuan hot pot
@kuangtingwu, a Chinese-Polish user, uploaded a small video of eating hot pot and received thousands of likes. @lingxi_qiu, a Chinese girl living in Spain, uploaded a video of herself eating hot pot, and there were many Portuguese-speaking users in the comments section asking where she ate.
Chinese-Polish users @kuangtingwu uploaded videos of eating hot pot
@weronka_krupetta studied in China. She posted a video on TikTok detailing the Chinese foods she misses the most, with the top two being spicy hot and hot pot.
@weronka_krupetta said he missed hot pot very much
@helgistones, a foreign brother who graduated from Peking University, sat in front of the hot pot, with a bottle of Yanjing beer in his hand, and was sitting precariously introducing "This is a hot pot." Someone in the comment area replied, "My wife also loves to eat this, I often invite friends to eat hot pot, and suggest that they bring swimsuits." Some foreigners are very concerned about the smell left on their bodies after eating hot pot, so they will find ways to solve this problem, such as bringing a swimsuit. The attitude is humorous.
@helgistones Introduce hot pot
Users @krobits made a simple version of the hot pot at home, put a few slices of meat and vegetables into the soup that had been boiled, fished out with chopsticks, put them in a bowl, added pepper and pepper, and drizzled with a little oil.
@krobits One man's hot pot
In comparison, the hot pot in @itsmunchtime is much more hearty. The table top is full of meat, seafood and vegetables, open the lid, fresh meat under the pot, a few times to fish out, very tempting. Many people in the comment area praised "it looks great", "delicious", "want to eat" and so on.
Author: Ma Qi
@itsmunchtime Make a family hot pot