Its hotpot time!!!

My gods with how cold it is lately hotpot sounds like the perfect dinner idea! So where we go!

Yum yum! So lets get started!

♤What youll need non food wise ♤

1) hot pot pot ~ easy to find on amazon or your local Asian supermarket mine was $25

2) hot plate ~ so many places sell one. I went with electric since its easiest

3) cooking chopsticks ~ longer chopsticks makes it easier to put in and take out the ingredients

4) slotted spoons

5) laddle

♡Ingredients♡

°please note! Hotpot is very much catered to your own likes so mine is more a basic guidelines but add anything! °

1) half a diakon ~ thinly sliced

2) 2 potatos ~ thin slices

3) 3 carrots ~ cut anyway but small enough to cook quick

4) meat! ~ we used presliced hotpot meat from TNT along with a thinly sliced steak

5) half a cucumber ~ sliced

6) 1 head of broccoli ~ cut up to bite sizes

7) instant ramen ~ 1 pack per person OR any kind of noodles you like! Glassnoodles are also amazing

8) soy sauce ~ for dipping and to flavour broth to taste

9) little sheep hotpot flavour (we used mild) ~ we got it at TNT but I’ve seen amazon sell it, you can alsp use any kind of broth

10) salt & pepper

11) garlic! ~ we ended up using 4 cloves. Its for flavour so cater it to your taste

♡Steps♡

1) clear off your table and set up the electric burner and hotpot pot.

2) fill with water (or broth) with about a inch from the top. Dont overfill! Youre putting stuff in so you don’t want it to high

3) once water is boiled add little sheep falvour pack, splash of soy and 2 cloves of garlic per side.

4) add noodles to let it cook before everything else goes in

5) start adding your meat and veggies and enjoy!!

◇foxy tips◇

Rice is a good side if you dont like noodles. You can poor your broth ontop for great flavour!

Remember that consuming under cooked meat is unhealthy. Please make sure you pay attention to your meat to make sure its fully cooked before consuming

I hope you all enjoyed!

Its hotpot time!!!

My gods with how cold it is lately hotpot sounds like the perfect dinner idea! So where we go!

Yum yum! So lets get started!

♤What youll need non food wise ♤

1) hot pot pot ~ easy to find on amazon or your local Asian supermarket mine was $25

2) hot plate ~ so many places sell one. I went with electric since its easiest

3) cooking chopsticks ~ longer chopsticks makes it easier to put in and take out the ingredients

4) slotted spoons

5) laddle

♡Ingredients♡

°please note! Hotpot is very much catered to your own likes so mine is more a basic guidelines but add anything! °

1) half a diakon ~ thinly sliced

2) 2 potatos ~ thin slices

3) 3 carrots ~ cut anyway but small enough to cook quick

4) meat! ~ we used presliced hotpot meat from TNT along with a thinly sliced steak

5) half a cucumber ~ sliced

6) 1 head of broccoli ~ cut up to bite sizes

7) instant ramen ~ 1 pack per person OR any kind of noodles you like! Glassnoodles are also amazing

8) soy sauce ~ for dipping and to flavour broth to taste

9) little sheep hotpot flavour (we used mild) ~ we got it at TNT but I’ve seen amazon sell it, you can alsp use any kind of broth

10) salt & pepper

11) garlic! ~ we ended up using 4 cloves. Its for flavour so cater it to your taste

♡Steps♡

1) clear off your table and set up the electric burner and hotpot pot.

2) fill with water (or broth) with about a inch from the top. Dont overfill! Youre putting stuff in so you don’t want it to high

3) once water is boiled add little sheep falvour pack, splash of soy and 2 cloves of garlic per side.

4) add noodles to let it cook before everything else goes in

5) start adding your meat and veggies and enjoy!!

◇foxy tips◇

Rice is a good side if you dont like noodles. You can poor your broth ontop for great flavour!

Remember that consuming under cooked meat is unhealthy. Please make sure you pay attention to your meat to make sure its fully cooked before consuming

I hope you all enjoyed!

May 24th - Free Day 

     Today was our first free day since arriving in Tokyo. I slept in for the first time since coming here, which felt so good. All of my roommates left early in the morning, so I had the apartment to myself to do laundry and start my morning. I went downstairs briefly to have breakfast with Alex, another student on the trip, and then headed to Shibuya. 

     While there, I window shopped through the expensive stores and got coffee at a Tully’s, which I think is a chain here. At 2, I met my friend Naoki, who was an exchange student at UF last year. We went to his university, Aoyama Gakuin. Compared to Musashi, it was much larger. We got lunch at the university and I met a few of his friends, and then we walked through Harajuku and Shibuya. I headed back to where we were staying and tried shabu-shabu for dinner. This is a style of food where the meat is cooked on the table in hot broth. It reminded me a little of Korean barbeque if it were soup.

     After this I am planning to go out with some friends to do Karaoke, but we have another early start tomorrow so I am going to try not to stay out too late.

Shabu Shabu in Akihabara  

Main walkway at Aoyama Gakuin

Entrance to Aoyama Gakuin

Quiet Tuesday night Insadong

I am back in Seoul to speak at a conference on North Korea and not only is it a short visit, I’m losing a bunch of time from jet lag, so everything’s happening in hyper-speed.

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I probably go out for hotpot at least 3 times a month. IT IS MY WEAKNESS! So I’m honour of that here’s a hot pot illustration