Dine & Dish: Hot pot at Pho Bac will have you bopping back for more

So it’s no wonder that the restaurant was on my mind, or that for weeks, my friends and I had been talking about making a date to have Vietnamese hot pot at Pho Bac. Hot pot – also known as steamboat or shabu-shabu in other Asian cultures – is the original fondue cooking. You get a pot of boiling broth on a hot plate, assorted meats and vegetables to cook in the broth, plus rice or noodles and sauces.

I’d had shabu-shabu at Japanese restaurants before and had been craving it ever since I’d seen that Pho Bac offered it.

Sean wasn’t so impressed. “You mean we have to cook it ourselves?”

Easy-to-make kimchi (pickled seasoned cabbage)/ 막김치 / Mak ...

Kimchi, also spelled 김치 gimchi, kimchi, or kim chee, is a Korean traditional food made from fermented vegetables with varied seasonings. Although there are many varieties of kimchi, the most common are made and with a vegetable as the main ingredient napa cabbage, radishes, green onions or cucumber.