Hi readers and writers,
Here's a lovely hotpot for H-day, February 9, my son's birthday 40 years ago in Denver. I assume with Nemo raging around, Denver and many other cities probably would love a hotpot dinner today. Thanks to Creative Commons for the photo, which was a spread for someone's birthday, appropriately enough!
My husband and I enjoyed a hotpot in Qiqiha'ar, China in 2005, where we had felt stranded since the Chinese tourist service had forgotten to meet us and take us to our programmed nature reserve, Zhalong, or even to our hotel. My limited Chinese got a real workout there, near Mongolia, out west and north of Beijing. When they finally realized where we were and what had gone wrong, we got a basket of fruit we were warned not to eat and a quick trip to Zhalong that we enjoyed, although the marsh was afire and reminded us of brush fires in SoCal. And then the guide took us out for a Mongolian hotpot, there, almost in Mongolia itself. We lifted the various items with our chopsticks and dipped them into the boiling soup, then into sauces, then yum. It was delicious, and being coddled at that point was also delicious.
So today, be inspired by the hotpot to choose 5 words starting with H and use them in one sentence you can post in comments. Enjoy! And do cruise through the others' sentences and enjoy the alliteration gone mad.
cheers,
Laura
