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Hot and sour soup is a Chinese soup and popular regional cuisines of Beijing and Sichuan as a regional dish. The Chinese hot and sour soup is usually meat-based, and often contains ingredients such as day wood ear fungus, bamboo shoots, and tofu, in a broth. It is typically made hot (spicy) by white pepper, and sour by vinegar.

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Beijing jianbing (北京煎饼) is a kind of breakfast crepe widely sold in Beijing. Similar but smaller crepe is also sold all over China. The motorized cooking plate speeds up the process for larger crepe. The red sauces are red tofu bean curd sauce and chili sauce. The crispy square is fried dough.-kkfung/youtube

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Steamboat or Hot pot is 火鍋 huǒ guō consists of a simmering metal pot of stock at the center of the dining table. These thinly sliced mutton are also called instant-boiled mutton 涮羊肉 and are mostly found in the Inner Mongolian (better known as Mongolian Fire Pot). 涮羊肉火鍋 is created in the Yuan Dynasty and these fresh non-greasy yet tender mutton are specially chosen from the back, rear legs of the sheep. 


While the hot pot is kept simmering, ingredients are placed into the pot and are cooked at the table. Typical hot pot dishes include thinly sliced meat, leafy vegetables, mushrooms, wontons, egg dumplings, and seafood. The cooked food is usually eaten with a dipping sauce. In many areas, hot pot meals are often eaten in the winter.