Where To Buy Ready-To-Heat Hot Pot Kits In Manila
Plus easy-to-follow basic rules for hotpot cooking at home
The hot pot is not a new idea, but we totally understand why this dish has lasted for so long and spread so widely. It’s the perfect family-style dish, interactive with endless variations that take you from Mongolian hotpot to Japanese shabu shabu. At it’s most basic, hot pot is a communal dish centered around a broth with meat, dumplings, noodles, vegetables and dipping sauces. You get to choose your ingredients, your base soup, and your dips. It’s hearty and warming and great fun. Hot pot is not just a meal, it’s an experience.
If you’re a beginner, you’re going to need a few basic items: a large pot for cooking in, a ladle, cooking and serving chopsticks, and a portable burner or induction stove. You can order this from Lazada. Or, for even less hassle, simply order the portable burner and stainless steel pot from Hotpot Manila or Ganso Shabuway, in addition to the ingredients, and you’re all set.
Generally, diners gather around the hot pot on its burner as it sits on the dining table, and cooking ensues while you converse. Actually, everyone is just waiting for when the food is ready to devour! The general rules for cooking hot pot at home are simple and sensible:
Ladle noodles and broth in small bowls for everyone. When meat is cooked, dip in your dipping sauce and enjoy between sips of broth.
The biggest time consumer is actually in preparing the broth base, slicing up your ingredients, and making your own dipping sauces. These can be fun to do, but if you’d rather just go straight to dinner, here are ten easy and fun hot pot kits that will bring the hot pot adventure straight to your door. Enjoy!
Hot Pot Made Easy
Hot Pot Made Easy
Hotpot.MNL
A hotpot dinner can be a bit of a hassle to put together. Where do you get the meat, vegetabls, sauces, balls, not to mention the soup base and the condiments? Hotpot.MNL makes it easy by providing everything, all neatly packed in vacuum-sealed bags. They even provide the pot! All you’ve got to do is choose from their different sets. Meat selections, for example, include USDA rib eye sukiyaki, premium USDA Angus beef short plate, or lean pork belly sukiyaki. Seafood choices include Japanese scallops, shrimp and squid. There are assorted bola bola, vegetables, crabsticks, mushrooms and dipping sauces. So easy to handle that you can serve dinner in 10 minutes. Highly recommended for hotpot beginners. Order from (0916) 228-6633 or DM @hotpot.mnl on Instagram. Give 1 day lead time.
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Bijinn Nabe by Tsukada Nojo
Tsukuda Nojo is a Japanese brand of shabu-shabu known for their farm-to-table philosophy. Their specialty is Bijin Nabe, golden chicken collagen in a pot — sometimes called the beauty hotpot. The broth is rich with collagen from jidori chickens (if you aren’t familiar, this is the chicken version of kobe beef, and is famous for its marbled fat). The collagen-rich broth will replenish your body’s natural supply — almost like the fountain of youth in a hotpot. Open for dine in or takeaway, call (0918) 651-0781. Branches at S’Maison and Greenhills Shopping Center. Follow @bijinnabeph on Instagram.
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Champion Hotpot
Throwing together a hotpot feast is so fun and easy with Champion DIY Hotpot Kits that come in different flavors: Sukiyaki, Special Shabu-Shabu, Premium Chicken Coconut, Premium Laksa. Each kit is good for two to three persons, and come with high quality handmade hotpot balls, meats, noodles and vegetables. Enjoy with the signature satay sauce. Order online at www.championhotpot.com or call (0917) 703-4517. Also available via foodpanda or GrabFood. Follow @championhotpotph on Instagram.
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Haidilao Self-Heating Instant Hotpot
Hotpot enthusiasts all over the world queue to get into Haidilao, a famous Chinese hotpot restaurant chain with over 400 branches globally. They’re famous for their signature broths. Good news: there’s an instant version you can order from Lazada, that comes in many different, unique flavors, like Spicy Mara Beef Butter, Original Pork, or Vegetarian. The “self-heating” part means you don’t even need an external heat source, just add water and the heating pack provided will heat the water to cook the noodles. Order from Hotpot Lover’s official Lazada page.
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Hot Pot Hooray
From the foodie haven of Banawe, Hot Pot Hooray delivers the most hassle-free shabu-shabu sets complete with an elegant and efficient American Home Induction Cooker that comes with its own Pot. You’ll have to buy this separately, but you only need purchase once. The kits will serve from 2 to 3 persons, up to groups of 8 to 10. Viber of WhatsApp (0917) 961-4704 or check out @hotpothooray on Instagram for more information.
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Ganso-Shabuway
Offering Japanese-style hotpot made with natural, grass-fed beef, we love the hotpot kit’s well-considered packaging. The beef is freshly sliced, all the ingredients come in food-grade bags, and the homemade dips are available in 300-ml bottles (you will never feel short). You can also order an induction cooker and hotpot, if you don’t have your own paraphernalia yet. Calibrate with extra side orders of noodles, veggies, dumplings, or anything that catches your fancy from the a la carte menu. Viber the Greenbelt branch at (0917) 541-8181, Rockwell at (0917) 822-1400, or Shangri-La at (0917) 873-1640. Follow @gansoshabuway on Instagram or Facebook.
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Jiang Nan HotPot
This three-year-old restaurant provides an “authentic Chinese hotpot experience” and is famous for its Yin Yang Pot — the same ingredients in two different broths. Shown in photo is the clear broth and Red Oil Soup, cooking merrily on the same burner. The result is a nice balance of fiery spice and clean, mild flavors. They even have a Mushroom Combination Hotpot for plant-based diners. Call (0945) 408-9272, order online at www.jiangnanhotpot.com or DM @jiangnanhotpotrestaurant.
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Ping Yang Hot Pot & Dimsum Restaurant
Malate-based Ping Yang has been praised for serving the “tastiest hotpot in town,” and certainly it’s one of the oldest shabu shabu restaurants in Manila (we think longevity is a good sign of a restaurant’s ability to satisfy customers). Their hotpot is a hearty serving with sliced beef and pork or chicken, homemade meatballs, fish cake, egg noodles, sweet corn, sotanghon and fresh vegetables. Order with a side of their delicious golden deep fried dumplings, a perfect match. Viber (0917) 815-0875 or DM @pingyanghotpot on Instagram or Facebook.
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Sichu Malatang
This fantastic hotpot joint makes just about the only Sichuan-style streetfood hotpot in Manila. We love its fresh ingredients, the homemade sauces and soup bases, and the amazing variety of flavorful balls with fun names like Shrimp Shape, Basil Squid Tempura, Salted Egg Bun and more. Ask about their tongue-numbing spicy soup. Preorder the Malatang Home Kits. Call (0935) 868-4584 or DM @sichu.malatang on Instagram or Facebook.
Photo Credit: @sichu,malatang
Shabunoki
Famous for samgyupsal and shabu shabu, their hotpot sets have a signature fruit-infused broth, great selection of dumplings, and a special sauce made from a generations-old family recipe. Order online at shabunokiph.com or call the BF Homes, Parañaque branch at (0915) 934-2379, or the Hobbies of Asia branch at (0905) 497-51518. Follow @shabunokiph on Instagram.
Photo Credit: @shabunokiph
Lead photo: Champion Hotpot Manila
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