In college I had a roommate from Beijing and we made hot pot once a week. It's been 10 years and I still make it for my family. It's definitely one of my favorite dishes she taught me.

Bro I’m Chinese and we don’t even make the base at home even on holidays. Truly going all the way

Josh is the only non-Asian person KZfaqr whose videos I click on to watch Asian recipes. Love how he keeps it real. Even with non-traditional recipes the ingredients are very similar to the authentic dish

My fave part of the hotpot experience is the soup you're left with at the end. All the flavor and fat from the meat and other ingredients plus the constant reduction leave you with a soup that is divine and a perfect end to the meal.

For the dipping sauce: in my family our favorite is Chinese sesame paste (different to tahini as it’s toasted and thicker), sacha sauce, one cube of fermented bean curd or known as Chinese cheese, and some chili either from the base or chili oil, and cilantro and scallion! This is really good though, definitely approved Josh 👍🏻

As Chinese we have 4-5 different types of hot pot. There is charcoal based lamps hotpot with salty sesame past as dip, in South we also have plain soup based all beef (fresh cut, different part) hotpot with Sacha dip, Joshua made is more a Sichuan style which is also popular in most of China. There is another coconut chicken soup based hotpot also light. There are all fish hot pot etc. maybe only popular in certain area of China but delisious

Coming from someone who's Taiwanese, I think this video is AWESOME. Super authentic ingredients and methods and even though it's definitely a bit more complicated than what my family would normally do at home, I have so much respect for how thoughtfully you prepare everything! Inspirational (:

Joshua literally just flexing over here. I'm a chef aswell and unless I'm in a professional kitchen at work, there's no way I'll be doing this at home. That being said, love the "from scratch" mentality and all the work he puts out for us. Keep em coming 🙌

Josh please start filming your crew eating the food you just made. I feel like that’s content.

Me, a Chinese person who eats hot pot every weekend in winter: throws in a can of chicken stock and water as the non spicy base. Also, a real hot pot fanatic would never eat rice during hot pot… it’s just a waste of stomach space. Haha.

As Chinese, I'm amazed how RIGHT Josh did the spicy flavor pot. Just two really important tips about enjoying hot pot: 1. You need really THIN sliced beef or lamb to maximize the flavor. 2. There is actually a dipping sauce for hot pot: half table spoon of Tahini (sesami paste), 2 table spoons of peanut butter and a table spoon of sesami oil, blend well with some non-chili soup (or just hot water) till the whole thing becomes sticky but diluted. It would be the best if you can get some of the "fermented bean curd" in it, but it's optional. Last but not least, some chopped coriander and green onions.

Just tried hot pot this weekend in Queens. Excellent. Loved it. So glad that I had a delicious new good experience. Yum.

I also want to see Japanese style NABE! Beautiful looking food Josh!

Amazing! I love how you make recipes digestible by breaking them down so nicely!

Respect and a LOT of appreciation to Josh! amazing work, I was super super impressed by how you made your soup base from scratch. Hope there are more and more people willing to try hot pot 😁

As a Chinese who grew up eating hot pot I RANNNNNNN when I saw the notification I'll update thoughts after watching the video Update: okay so he did the broth by himself which is A+ for effort bc we don't even do that! We just buy the base in a block/sauce form and cook it. However, he did add some twists that are not necessarily that authentic (e.g. mushroom powder). Food wise he's got cabbage and beef, but I wish he'd tried even more authentic ingredients, like tofu puff, lamb, enoki mushroom, white radish, lotus root, and if you're more adventurous blood curd and beef entrails. My favorite in the non-spicy broth is frozen tofu (you just freeze soft tofu and throw them in, literally) it will develop these honey-comb-like structures that soak up all the delicious broth, YUM! Dipping sauce wise, personally I just like to add condiments to plain Chinese-styled sesame sauce, like fermented bean curd, cilantro, green onion, chili oil, soy sauce, garlic chive blossom sauce, toasted sesame oil, and Chinese black vinegar if you like something tangy. What josh did was totally new though, and that garlic sesame sauce looks so good. I'll definitely try it out the next time I have hot pot!

Yay! Best part of this video is seeing the dish getting enjoyed by the crew. All the cooking TV shows would've gotten so much more clout if they showed the food they made actually getting enjoyed by the people who worked so hard to film it!

Great stuff as always, brother. I've been living in Beijing for already 5 years and every time I go to hot pot with my mates I discover a new dipping sauce, literally every province has its own variation.

I'm Chinese and I've never got to know how to make the spicy soup base at home, since me and my friend always buy the pre-made ones in grocery stores. Thank you for the eye-opening education! Looks exactly like the ones we bought. Well done!

For those of you that have an instant pot and don't want to buy a whole extra thing to be able to do hot pot, you won't be able to divide the broths the same way but you can do a one-broth hot pot by sticking your instant pot on saute mode!

In my family, the broth is always homemade by simmering some beef beginning in the morning, and then flavored with some herbs. The dipping sauces are extremely accurate, however at our home we use sesame paste and then mix that with the sesame garlic, the soy sauce compound, and a lot of other stuff, and then loosen with a bit of broth so we can dunk it because that is how we do it at my house. Overall this is extremely accurate for a more high end hotpot, good video.

I love all different types of hot pot! I’m Cambodian and my culture loves doing a hot pot dish called Yao Hon. Its more barbecue sauce based with coconut milk and coconut soda! It sweet, salty, spicy, creamy, and more! So flavorful that you didn’t need dipping sauce, although we sometimes like having fermented soy bean paste on the side.

We just bought your cookbook and I'm just blown away by the attention to detail. Well done sir we look forward to the next one!!

When my (white) parents came to visit me in Japan 6 years ago, I took them to have hot pot (the Chinese type, not the Japanese nabe style). Man, my dad was SO disappointed and complained it was just "soup with wilted vegetables and meat you have to cook by yourself". But after the first bite, my friends, he was an enlightened man. It's a pretty famous all-you-can-eat hot pot, so I think in total we repeated everything (various meat cuts and vegetables) 3 or 4 times. He even made me take them to the same store again before they left Japan. All of this to say, nabe/hot pot is one of my favorite foods of all time. It's warm, comforting, and really delicious. If you don't have a hot pot/name restaurant close to home, please try the recipe! You will never regret it!

This video makes me realize how Chinese my kitchen has become during COVID... I have all of the ingredients you used to make both soups on hand 😊🍜🥟🥢

I’m also saving this video as the inspiration for my foray into cooking and a brand new life! Thanks Josh!

I’ve been using this recipe for the chilly soup base for almost a year, it’s amazing 😍

I had hot pot once when I was visiting China, and I'm obsessed! It was over 10 years ago, and the eating experience was amazing. I've always wanted to recreate it for my family.

great video. making your own soup base is truly next level. what I love doing with hotpot is making my own dipping sauce by combining the sesame oil-garlic and vinegar-soy sauces with chilli oil/chilli crisp, and then cracking in one raw egg and mixing it all together. also I agree with the "no rice during hotpot" comments. you already have dumplings - save more space for the beef.

Just saw an old video from 2017 and wanted to compliment your current production quality. Your videos are instructional and beautiful. Oh and the food looks sooooo good!

This is just beautiful to watch you make it!

Perfect timing with your video. I just moved to the capital of hotpot, the city of Chongqing, China. There’s like 10 hot pot spots if not more less than 5 minutes away from my place. This food is paradise. For the authentic experience, take all of your spicy crystalized orange mixture and put it in a pot without a non spicy side. Just one quarter of it is just not the punch in the gut that the real thing is supposed to do to you. And don’t forget a bunch of beers, you can’t be sober by the end of this experience. Of course, nothing wrong with the non spicy and multiple variations of hotpot, but the Chongqing experience deserves a try.

Ok, I have been watching this chanel and I always love waiting with excitement for the B-roll but this dish speciafically is like a photogenic dish. It looks so incredibly good I might just have to try and make it at home

Probably your best one yet! Thanks for the recipe!!!!!!

That look super yummy!!!! That is for sharing the recipe.

Kudos for making hot pot from scratch! You could also use meatball, fish, shrimp and tofu as accoutrements. One tip is to have noodles and dumplings as the last ingredients you put into the hot pot, so that they can absorb all the flavors of all the previous items! Usually we don't eat hot pot with rice, as noodles and dumplings are enough, but you can have it however the way you want it!

I love watching your videos! My son loves watching them more. He’s three years old. He woke up this morning saying “watch Joshua Weissman”. I make some of your recipes and he loves them ❤️

Kudos for awesome authenticity!

IMPRESSIVE! Definately gonna try!

Hot pot is becoming very popular in America - a wonderful cultural infusion. Great preparation of the stock!

It’s like you read my mind! I was just looking up homemade hot pot 2 days ago and you drop this gem. Thank you so much! I love your videos! I’ve already tried a bunch of them with great results, and I can’t wait to try this one! 😁

This is sooo on point-espacilly with the pot u got. Respect

Wonderful!!! So excited to try this at home

OMG Josh LOVE your videos! Thank you for teaching me how to cook! I know you've probably got a ton of video ideas in the works, and maybe some other people won't be super interested, but if you could make a video/recipe making Cioppino, I would die from happiness! ❤️ I had it once at a restaurant and it was SO good I had no idea you could make a fish stew like that. I've been dying to find a good recipe to recreate that experience at home! But I understand there are lots of other awesome dishes to be made too. Thanks again for all of the wisdom and the papa love. I'm pretty sure the reason my boyfriend will propose to me is because I made your pizza dough that out-pizza'd the hut. It was so good!!! And saves us so much money ❤️ Appreciate what you do ❤️

Would love to see which pots, pans, and bakeware you recommend, what all you specifically use each for and how to maintain them. Love your channel

I was literally craving for this and always wanted to make spicy soup base at home.. then you made this video love love ❤️

great cooking and team!! Been binging for a week on all the content due to covid, and its got me through thanks Big Jim

I bought your book and it is gorgeous and absolutely hilarious to read through. It's so you.

there's many different types of soup stock for hotpot. also for my family we like asian radish aka daikon as well as silky soft tofu for pre-added food to the soup no matter what soup base we use.

This look AMAZING!! Im drooling!

I'm so jealous of the crew that works on Josh's videos. They eat so good afterwards!!!

We’ve been eating hotpot every night for… 3 weeks now LOL. Definitely a favorite at our house. We bought individual ones which definitely makes the experience 👌🏼

It would literally take me an entire day to find the ingredients and put a meal like this together

I actually got a Korean BBQ Hot pot for the holidays a couple years ago and I hope to use it. But this is a great beginner's tutorial because I hope to learn to do Hot pot cooking someday.

the best part of the whole video was watching the crew eat and vibe at the end. thanks Joshua, that concentrated spicy mix looks incredible

Sesame sauce is amazing, I think it taste best with veggies because I think ponzu should is too sour for vegetables and this is my recipe on it, it doesn’t require sesame paste In a food processor add - 2 tbsp of toasted white sesame - 1 tbsp of rice vinegar or 1/2 tbsp of white vinegar - 1/2 tbsp of soy sauce - a pinch of salt and a pinch of pepper - 1 tbsp of mayo - 2 tbsp of your broth or just water - 1 tbsp of sesame oil (optional but brings a nice flavour to it) and blend, it is good with meat and best with veggies

I approve of this. well done, you've done it better than most asian families would do because nowadays, we just use the package stuff and dump the powder/sauce into the pot

Never had it but I need this in my life!

I love it w seafood too. It sounds sooo good

So happy to see the boys eating this together! My favorite part of cooking is watching my family eat it with enthusiasm and I usually have to just imagine your crew devouring your yummy food!

I belive Josh is one of the best cook in terms of understanding the essence and purpose of eating.

Tht looks so good I learn a lot just watching you.

Thanks! You make me mouth water haha and my favorite food to eat.

My wife just bought me this same dual hot pot that you’re using for my birthday. I am SUPER excited to use it!

I love how the team eats together afterwards! I think it would be wholesome if in every video, the men eats whatever Joshua makes! Stay safe guys, always love your cooking!!!

Made the a couple of times it’s just perfect 💕💕

I looooooooooove to see the boys eat your cooking! That's the best compliment any chef can get!

Oh my gosh this is heaven behind heaven!!!!!!!!!!! My husband and I both come from very strong culture families. We are both Cajuns from Louisiana. And we love our food!! But we also are obsessed with other people's culture Foods. I have spent the last 20 years grabbing people from different nationalities and having them teach me everything they can about their traditional foods!! And it's super cool because we raised our kids this way and they are obsessed as well with different types of culture foods!! This looks like something I could not pass up!!!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

That spread looks amazing! Always skip the rice when I eat hot pot at a restaurant or at home - for me, it’s all about the meat and veggies, maybe some glass noodles. The spicy mala sauce seems like it would take a lot of work and ingredients (we usually buy a vacuum sealed hard block of paste), but the rest of the recipe is pretty accessible. Making hot pot at home is a great meal for a special occasion.

That looks so good

I had a similar dish on a hot pot in a Vietnamese restaurant, the meat is gorgeous, but the spicy part ... it's so damn spicy and you can't stop eating it! 🔥🔥🔥😋

Bravo! You made fondu very well!! Come to China one day and try different restaurants, they will give you more idea!

This take on hot pot was actually pretty good both in terms of adhering to tradition and a unique take. However, for dipping sauces, I would say the most important sauce for chinese style hot pot would be sesame sauce, or majiang. It's a mix of sesame seeds, toasted sesame oil, and a variety of other ingredients of your choosing ranging from fermented bean curd (jiangdoufu/"jiang tofu") to tianmianjiang to even miso, and puree'd in a blender. It's the consistency and color of liquid peanut butter, and it's almost a must have in hot pot.

Awesome video man.perfect broth. You are a real chef. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

loved it, you are a genius!

One of my personal favorite food items to add in here is Egg Dofu, it is velvety and soaks the flavor so well.

When your version is as authentic as the one you can find locally. Even the way you hold the chopsticks is accurate

I respect you for doing this

Jeez! Dude! This is amazing. Even Chinese rarely make that hotspot base-soup and you make it by yourself!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Other soup bases I love in hot pot is tomato and pork bone. Tip: If you can't find dried shitake mushroom and jujubes (AKA red dates), you can add corn and carrot to your clear soup base for some extra sweetness. Also, I'm chinese but the shabu beef is a little too thick for hot pot imo ... don't at me pls 🙃

Don't think I didn't see you getting your rice out of the instant pot! Lol glad to see you getting some use out of it

Love watching your friends enjoying cooking!😂❤

Hahah this is super entertaining I can't wait to try this!

I've only had Hotpot twice?? But it was so fun and so so good. Seeing this makes me want to find a place and have some 😔🙏

I'm obsessed with spicy food- like SPICY food, and traditional mala hotpot broth has consistently taken me out. Trust y'all, this stuff isn't something to mess around with. That being said, Josh's doesn't look too oily which I imagine would lead to a milder broth. It's an absolute flavor bomb that keeps me coming back

I love the ending when you’re all just enjoying eating it. ❤

This is excellent! Glad to see hotpot in your series 😁 Hotpot really is whatever you want it to be, there is no right or wrong way as long as you are enjoying it.

I’d be interested in seeing some videos in a “But Faster” series. Show us how to make quick meals at home faster than you could by driving out to a restaurant, ordering, and returning.

Can’t wait for the Uncle Roger react video

Oh man this looks amazing. This will be my goal this month.

It is full of flavor

POV: You're trying to earn back the uncle-title.

I want to watch you react to Food War the anime and then cook some of the dishes from the show.

Joshua's recipes and personality are a large majority of the videos, but let's also give it up for his funny and talented editor hahahah I love the editing style of all of Joshua's videos, but his cooking knowledge is unmatched. 🥰🧡

Just in time for summer!

I guess the essence of hot pot is never eat it alone man

Good video! Traditional spicy hotpot is always too oily, Josh's version is better and drinkable but it needs more kinds of spices.

I’m from the hotpot city Chengdu! Very excited to see someone sharing my most favourite authentic Chinese food

Thank u for this goodness Love your vibe Truly make it all better Wish I could have tried it with you bro Keep up good work!!!!!

Be REAL careful if you make that spicy soup base (MaLa) at home. That stuff will blow your face off and make your mouth feel numb like you just drank a chemical from the cupboard under the sink...juuuust the way I like it (it's so good)