"The Divine Beyond Honkai ()"
Sukiyaki was a Far Eastern dish that had become popular, specifically a "hot pot where beef is dipped in sweet soy sauce with raw egg."
As a Far Eastern-style dish, sukiyaki's greatest characteristic was its flavor, which catered more to Far Eastern tastes. It was a relatively sweet dish.
Sukiyaki could be eaten with cooked rice and sauce, or by dipping the ingredients into beaten egg. It was a very distinctive dish.
Meanwhile... hot pot came from the Land of Shenzhou.
It was a cooking method that used a pot as the vessel, heated it over a heat source, and used boiling water or broth to cook various foods. Its defining feature was eating while cooking, or the pot itself retaining heat so that the food was still steaming hot when eaten, with soup and ingredients combined as one.
Although similar dishes existed around the world, they were most popular in East Asia.
And one of Shenzhou's most famous hot pots... was naturally Sichuan's spicy hot pot.
Sichuan hot pot was renowned for its numbing spice, heat, freshness, and fragrance. It originated among the common people and was elevated to the halls of power. Whether peddlers and laborers, officials and nobles, scholars and poets, merchants and farmers, young men and women, or the old and the young, its consumer base was so broad and its per-capita frequency of consumption so high that other regions could only look on in envy.
And the greatest difference between spicy hot pot and sukiyaki was...
Before dinner that evening, Mei and Xu Yanwu stared at the ingredients and supplies they had each bought, lost in thought.
The vegetables on one side were bright red, along with red bird's eye chilies that looked painfully spicy, dried chilies, and ground chili