Korean hotpot

Is it very different from Chinese Hot Pot or Japanese shabu shabu?

Korean style is spicy.

You're cooking your food.

With fondue, you're just dipping things into sauce.

R2, that's good. I find shabu shabu to be a bit on the bland side.

So, OP doesn't know what fondue is.

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Hop Pot originated in Mongolia and western China over 800 years ago. The Korean and Japanese versions are derivative. There are so many things wrong with the fondue comparison, I’ll just leave that there to roll around in people’s imagination.

Hot Pot is awesome. Wonderful. Fun. And delicious.

Don't you get other people's backwash by putting your chopsticks into the pot?

R7, I believe everyone's supposed to use a separate, communal pair of chopsticks (or tongs) to do the dipping and serving, not your own chopsticks.

Isn’t this website was for people who put each other’s dicks in their mouths?

I’m Korean and I’ve never had this. This looks like some fad taken from China.

R3, that’s incorrect. Fondue Bourguignonne is made by frying beef in oil, which means you do cook your food. There are other fondues where the food is cooked in broth instead, which I haven’t tried.

Even a simple cheese fondue is not just a sauce since the cheese is cooked and melted. Still not a hotpot.

I made Army Base Stew from Maangchi on Boxing Day and we ate it while watching a documentary on Sami reindeer herders. It went down a treat!

R12, I don't know what that is, but it looks good for a cold night.

Korean hotpot has its origins in China:

"Chinese hot pot history started more than a thousand years ago. When the Mongols overrun China, Mongolian horsemen , who were nomads and accustomed to eat whatever they find in their travels, would use their overturned metal helmets as pots, fill them with water and heat them over flames adding different ingredients like meat and vegetables. As they coursed through the mainland, they would create their own dishes by adding local ingredients where they find them.

But modern fondue – melted cheese and wine set in a pot over an open flame – dates to the late 1800s, with roots in the French Rhône-Alpes region near the Geneva border. Fast forward to 1930 when the Swiss Cheese Union declared it the country's national dish – and the Swiss have not looked back since."

So, in actuality, even though fondue and hotpot are two different things, the hotpot has its origins well before the fondue. But of course, with the Western bias, many people find it hard to believe that nothing was ever started outside Europe or the US.