Collagen hotpot for brunch on a rainy day!
A rainy-day collagen hotpot: a thick, creamy chicken-and-pork-bone broth with a platter of meat, tofu, mushrooms and vegetables to cook.
Grey, wet Sunday: the perfect excuse for a collagen hotpot brunch with BB. 🌧️🍲😋
What we had:
- Collagen hotpot: a thick, creamy bone broth in the pot
- A platter to cook: tofu, tofu puffs, mushrooms (shiitake, enoki, king oyster), napa cabbage, sweetcorn, fishcake and radish
The broth is the whole reason you order a collagen hotpot, and this one looked the part: pale, creamy and almost opaque, the colour of a chicken-and-pork-bone stock that has been simmered for hours until it turns rich and silky. It coats the back of the spoon, and it only gets deeper as you cook things in it and they release their flavour.
The platter of ingredients was a generous spread to dunk and fish out: silky tofu and spongy tofu puffs that drink up the broth, an array of mushrooms for earthiness, sweet napa cabbage, sweetcorn, fishcake and radish. Each piece goes in for as long as it needs, then into the dipping sauce of soy, chilli and garlic.
There is real comfort in eating hot, fat-rich broth while the rain comes down outside. By the end the pot has reduced into something deeply savoury, and a few noodles dropped in soak it all up.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 A rich, silky collagen broth and a generous platter to cook, proper rainy-day comfort. Would repeat when it is cool.
