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Giản thể: 火锅
火锅是中国人很喜欢的一种品尝食物的方式。人们把一个金属锅放在桌子的中央，里面盛着汤，把新鲜的食物摆在锅的周围。大家围坐在桌子周围，一边把食物放在锅里煮，一边吃煮好的食物。这就叫吃火锅。
用来煮食物的汤叫做“锅底”。如果你想吃火锅，可以去超市买现成的锅底，也可以自己用食物调制出美味的锅底。有了锅底，就可以把各种食物放进去煮了。肉、蔬菜、海鲜、豆腐、菌菇、面食，等等，都可以用来做火锅的食材。此外，吃火锅还要有蘸料，食物在汤里煮熟后，要在蘸料里蘸一下，吃起来就会更有味道。
火锅在中国有几千年的历史。在中国的不同地方，流行不同味道的火锅。比如，重庆的麻辣火锅是非常有名的一种火锅，它的特点，就是在锅底中加了很多辣椒和花椒，吃起来非常地辣。北京人喜欢吃涮羊肉火锅，也就是把羊肉切成薄片，放在火锅里煮。广东人的海鲜火锅，吃的主要是海鲜类的食材。在东北还有一种酸菜火锅，是用酸菜做锅底的火锅。
火锅的类型也有很多种，比如，有老北京的铜锅、广州的小汤锅、四川和重庆人的大铁锅，还有九宫格形式的全辣型火锅，等等。现在，有越来越多的人喜欢吃火锅，在聚会时为了满足更多人的口味，就有了一半辣一半不辣的鸳鸯火锅。
中国人喜欢在冬天吃火锅，因为冬天天气冷，热气腾腾的火锅，能让我们的身体变得暖和起来。一起吃火锅的人，一般都是家人，或者非常要好的朋友。和家人、朋友围坐成一圈，大家一起吃一锅菜，体现了彼此间深厚的感情。吃火锅的时候，气氛往往是非常热闹的。圆圆的火锅，也象征着团团圆圆。
Phồn thể: 火鍋
火鍋是中國人很喜歡的一種品嚐食物的方式。人們把一個金屬鍋放在桌子的中央，裡面盛著湯，把新鮮的食物擺在鍋的周圍。大家圍坐在桌子周圍，一邊把食物放在鍋裡煮，一邊吃煮好的食物。這就叫吃火鍋。
用來煮食物的湯叫做“鍋底”。如果你想吃火鍋，可以去超市買現成的鍋底，也可以自己用食物調製出美味的鍋底。有了鍋底，就可以把各種食物放進去煮了。肉、蔬菜、海鮮、豆腐、菌菇、麵食，等等，都可以用來做火鍋的食材。此外，吃火鍋還要有蘸料，食物在湯裡煮熟後，要在蘸料裡蘸一下，吃起來就會更有味道。
火鍋在中國有幾千年的歷史。在中國的不同地方，流行不同味道的火鍋。比如，重慶的麻辣火鍋是非常有名的一種火鍋，它的特點，就是在鍋底中加了很多辣椒和花椒，吃起來非常地辣。北京人喜歡吃涮羊肉火鍋，也就是把羊肉切成薄片，放在火鍋裡煮。廣東人的海鮮火鍋，吃的主要是海鮮類的食材。在東北還有一種酸菜火鍋，是用酸菜做鍋底的火鍋。
火鍋的類型也有很多種，比如，有老北京的銅鍋、廣州的小湯鍋、四川和重慶人的大鐵鍋，還有九宮格形式的全辣型火鍋，等等。現在，有越來越多的人喜歡吃火鍋，在聚會時為了滿足更多人的口味，就有了一半辣一半不辣的鴛鴦火鍋。
中國人喜歡在冬天吃火鍋，因為冬天天氣冷，熱氣騰騰的火鍋，能讓我們的身體變得暖和起來。一起吃火鍋的人，一般都是家人，或者非常要好的朋友。和家人、朋友圍坐成一圈，大家一起吃一鍋菜，體現了彼此間深厚的感情。吃火鍋的時候，氣氛往往是非常熱鬧的。圓圓的火鍋，也像徵著團團圓圓。
Pinyin: Huǒguō
Huǒguō shì zhōngguó rén hěn xǐhuān de yī zhǒng pǐncháng shíwù de fāngshì. Rénmen bǎ yīgè jīnshǔ guō fàng zài zhuōzi de zhōngyāng, lǐmiàn shèngzhe tāng, bǎ xīnxiān de shíwù bǎi zài guō de zhōuwéi. Dàjiā wéi zuò zài zhuō zǐ zhōuwéi, yībiān bǎ shíwù fàng zài guō lǐ zhǔ, yībiān chī zhǔ hǎo de shíwù. Zhè jiù jiào chī huǒguō.
Yòng lái zhǔ shíwù de tāng jiàozuò “guō dǐ”. Rúguǒ nǐ xiǎng chī huǒguō, kěyǐ qù chāoshì mǎi xiànchéng de guō dǐ, yě kěyǐ zìjǐ yòng shíwù tiáozhì chū měiwèi de guō dǐ. Yǒule guō dǐ, jiù kěyǐ bǎ gè zhǒng shíwù fàng jìnqù zhǔle. Ròu, shūcài, hǎixiān, dòufu, jūn gū, miànshí, děng děng, dōu kěyǐ yòng lái zuò huǒguō de shícái. Cǐwài, chī huǒguō hái yào yǒu zhàn liào, shíwù zài tāng lǐ zhǔ shú hòu, yào zài zhàn liào lǐ zhàn yīxià, chī qǐlái jiù huì gèng yǒu wèidào.
Huǒguō zài zhōngguó yǒu jǐ qiān nián de lìshǐ. Zài zhōngguó de bùtóng dìfāng, liúxíng bùtóng wèidào de huǒguō. Bǐrú, chóngqìng de málà huǒguō shì fēicháng yǒumíng de yī zhǒng huǒguō, tā de tèdiǎn, jiùshì zài guō dǐ zhōng jiāle hěnduō làjiāo hé huājiāo, chī qǐlái fēicháng de là. Běijīng rén xǐhuān chī shuài yángròu huǒguō, yě jiùshì bǎ yángròu qiè chéng bópiàn, fàng zài huǒguō lǐ zhǔ. Guǎngdōng rén de hǎixiān huǒguō, chī de zhǔyào shi hǎixiān lèi de shícái. Zài dōngběi hái yǒuyī zhǒng suāncài huǒguō, shì yòng suāncài zuò guō dǐ de huǒguō.
Huǒguō de lèixíng yěyǒu hěnduō zhǒng, bǐrú, yǒu lǎo běijīng de tóng guō, guǎngzhōu de xiǎo tāngguō, sìchuān hé chóngqìng rén de dà tiě guō, hái yǒu jiǔgōnggé xíngshì de quán là xíng huǒguō, děng děng. Xiànzài, yǒu yuè lái yuè duō de rén xǐhuān chī huǒguō, zài jùhuì shí wèile mǎnzú gèng duō rén de kǒuwèi, jiù yǒule yībàn là yībàn bù là de yuānyāng huǒguō.
Zhōngguó rén xǐhuān zài dōngtiān chī huǒguō, yīnwèi dōngtiān tiānqì lěng, rèqì téngténg de huǒguō, néng ràng wǒmen de shēntǐ biàn dé nuǎnhuo qǐlái. Yīqǐ chī huǒguō de rén, yībān dōu shì jiārén, huòzhě fēicháng yàohǎo de péngyǒu. Hé jiārén, péngyǒu wéi zuò chéngyī quān, dàjiā yì qǐ chī yī guō cài, tǐxiànle bǐcǐ jiān shēnhòu de gǎnqíng. Chī huǒguō de shíhòu, qìfēn wǎngwǎng shì fēicháng rènào de. Yuán yuán de huǒguō, yě xiàngzhēngzhe tuántuán yuán yuán.
English: Hot pot
Hot pot is one of the favourite ways that Chinese like to savour food. One takes a metal pot and places it in the middle of the table, fills it with soup and then places fresh food around it. Everyone sits around the table putting food into the pot to cook while eating the food that’s already been cooked. This is what ‘eating hotpot’ is.
The soup used for cooking the food is called ‘guodi’ (soup base). If you want to eat hot pot you can go to the supermarket and buy a ready made soup base or you could also make a delicious soup base from fresh ingredients. (1) Once you have your base you can put in all sorts of food to cook. Meat, vegetables, seafood, tofu, mushrooms and fungi, noodles (8) (11) can all be used as ingredients in a hot pot. In addition, when eating hot pot you also need dipping sauces; once the food has been cooked in the soup you should dip it in a sauce for even more flavour.
Hot pot goes back several thousand years in China. (2) Different flavoured hot pots are popular in different parts of China. For example the numbing hot pot of Chongqing is a type of hot pot that is particularly famous. Its characteristic is that to the soup base are added many chillies and Szechuan peppers so it tastes (5) particularly spicy-hot. (3) In Beijing they like to eat Mongolian hot pot, i.e.mutton sliced thinly and added to the pot to cook. In the seafood hot pot of the Cantonese, the food (4) consists mainly of seafood ingredients. (9) In the northeast there is a type of pickled cabbage hot pot; it uses pickled cabbage to make the soup base.
As for the hot pot pots, there are also many kinds. For example the copper pots of oldtime (6) Beijing, the small soup pots of Guangzhou, the large steel pots of Sichuan and Chongqing and also the pots resembling squared paper for calligraphy practice used in all spicy hot pot (13). Nowadays more and more people like to eat hot pot. At parties, in order to satisfy the taste of even more people, split hotpots (10) have appeared (12) – half spicy hot half not spicy.
Chinese like to eat hot pot in winter because in winter the weather is cold and the steaming-hot hot pot can warm up our bodies. People eating hot pot together are generally family members or particularly close friends. To sit around in a circle with family or friends all eating a pot (7) of food together embodies the deep feeling that everyone has for each other. When eating hot pot the atmosphere is often extremely lively. The round hotpot also symbolises reunion.
1. The Chinese just has ‘food, foodstuffs’ but fresh ingredients is all that makes sense in English.
2. Using the word ‘history’ also reads ok but I suspect that my translation is pretty spot on.
3. (Translator’s note: it’s not as hot as many Chinese seem to think.)
4. Note this not so obvious word for ‘food’ – 吃的.
5. The dictionary is rather misleading here. This construction is similar to 看起来 and 听起来.
6. A tricky use of 老. Most often used with 北京 and 上海. 老北京 and 老上海 are almost set phrases.
7. 锅 used as a measure word.
8. Chinese seems to love to add etc. to the end of such a list. I think it’s a mistake to always include it in the translation.
9. The dictionary gives ‘food’, ‘edibles’.
10. The pot has a divider down the middle so one pot can contain two separate soup bases.
11. My dictionary bizarrely gives this as ‘cooked wheaten food’. This actually refers to noodles, dumplings and the like made from wheat flour.
12. Note this extra use of 有 indicating something appearing or occurring.
13. Yes, rather cumbersome. Luckily you can read Chinese. These pots likened to calligraphy practice paper are divided into nine sections. The reference to all spicy means that all nine sections contain a different sauce but all are spicy-hot.
by Robert Budzul
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