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Mongolian hot pot

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noun

Chinese Cooking.
  1. a stewlike dish of sliced meat, seafood, and vegetables cooked together in hot broth, often in a clay pot, and seasoned with a hot sauce.


Etymology

Origin of Mongolian hot pot

First recorded in 1965–70


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There is Beijing Mongolian hot pot with lamb, Chongqing hot pot with chili and Sichuan peppercorn, and Taiwanese hot pot with a dipping sauce of satay and raw egg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2021

If that’s not enough, Little Sheep, a Mongolian hot pot chain owned by the monolithic Yum!

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2015

Yum said last week that it would wait for approval from regulators before making a formal offer for the remaining shares in the chain, which owns and operates Mongolian hot pot restaurants, primarily in China.

From Reuters ● May 13, 2011

In 2009, he acquired a 27 percent stake in Little Sheep Group, a Hong Kong-listed company that operates 480 restaurants specializing in Mongolian hot pot dishes.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2011

If the Kremlin no longer helps to orchestrate conflicts in remote countries, it presides over a veritable Mongolian hot pot of disorder at home.

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