Fresh and light seafood hot pot

By Annie Wei

The broth can make or break your hot pot. Xianggangxiang Seafood Hot Pot has raised hot pot broth-making to an art: it offers various types of broth rarely found in other restaurants. For instance, its mushroom broth (68 yuan) is made using more than a dozen kinds of mushrooms.
 
We recommend hot pot broth with Yangtze River catfish (108 yuan per 500 grams of fish). The fish was fresh and tender and added bite to the broth. 

The restaurant's special beef plate, 48 yuan Photo By Huang Xiao

There is also broth with fish head, broth with chicken and chicken and pig’s feet broth – all 68 yuan. If you want a simple soup, try pigeon herb soup (88 yuan).

For your hot pot’s main ingredients, what else do you order but seafood? Xianggangxiang’s seafood is always fresh and well prepared. Try its seafood combination (98 yuan), fresh shrimp balls (38 yuan), minced shrimps (48 an), minced cattle fish (48 yuan) or cuttlefish balls (38 yuan for 8 balls). Then throw in some vegetables; most cost 10 yuan per order.

Carbohydrate addicts should try the sesame shaobing (10 yuan for five pieces) or udon noodle (10 yuan).

For drinks on a cold winter night, nothing beats hot corn juice or hot yam juice, both 58 yuan per mug. The juices are made from pure corn and yam, with no added sugar. If you prefer a cold drink, try the chef’s specials: icy hello tea (22 yuan) or plum juice (22 yuan). One of the most popular beverages is water chestnut juice (22 yuan), which is light and refreshing. Fresh fruit or vegetable juices are als available at 15 yuan a glass.

Xianggangxiang Seafood Hot Pot Restaurant
Where: 38 Haoyun Jie, Chaoyang District
Open: 11 am – 11 pm
Tel: 5867 0260
Cost: About 100 yuan per person