Mary made a
pot of coffee.
玛丽煮了一壶咖啡。
Eric used to
pot flowers.
埃里克过去常用盆栽花。
Tom took a
pot at the neighbour's cat with his air rifle
汤姆用气枪向邻居的猫打了一枪。
- At a bustling hotpot restaurant in Southwest China's Sichuan province, waiters pour each pot of leftover oil into a funnel-shaped oil-water separator in the kitchen.
-在中国西南部四川省一家熙熙攘攘的火锅店，服务员将每锅剩油倒入厨房的漏斗形油水分离器中。
Haidilao, a leading hot pot restaurant chain in China, posted a significant drop in net profit for the first half of the year, largely due to the COVID-19 epidemic that led to a decline in customer flow.
- Haidilao, China's leading hot pot chain, has posted figures pointing to a likely drop in revenue for the first half of the year, due largely to the COVID-19 epidemic.
In just a few minutes, a dish of Cantonese-style clay pot rice is ready.
The Chinese mainland's popular hot pot chain Haidilao will stand at a listing hearing for formal approval of an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange next Thursday, Beijing Business Today reported.
Although no official opening date has been set for the first United Kingdom branch of Haidilao Hot Pot, the restaurant said on Chinese micro-blogging platform Weibo the store is undergoing preparations.
A Chinese-style hotpot meal involves groups of diners sitting around a bubbling pot of hot, flavored soup into which the diners place meats, vegetables and noodles that cook in the soup.
Although no official opening date has been set for the first United Kingdom branch of HaiDiLao Hot Pot, the restaurant said on Chinese social media platform Weibo it is preparing the store.
A Chinese-style hotpot meal sees groups of diners sit around a bubbling pot of hot, flavored soup into which the diners place meats, vegetables, and noodles that cook in the soup.
Real estate company Savills advised the hot pot company in its acquisition of the 15-year lease.
Zhu Wei, mayor of Foshan, said the city has become a honey pot for investment and entrepreneurial endeavors, attracting great interest from all around the world.
In recent years, it has been extensively used in various foods and beverages in China, such as cakes, coffee, and hot pot, especially after the implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement.
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Pan Weiwen, owner of Songji, a famous hot pot restaurant in Foshan city in South China's Guangdong province, said the restaurant has been inundated with calls for reservations lately.
He said Chinese hotpot is very popular in Yangon, with many shops on high streets selling malatang (food boiled in hot spicy soup) and spicy hot pot.
"Many Myanmar people can say 'hot pot', 'mala' and other Chinese words, which are also indispensable topics in our conversations with Myanmar friends," Li said.
According to data from China's e-commerce platforms Meituan and Dianping at the beginning of this year, online searches for mala and hot pot in Thailand had increased by 700 percent year-on-year.
Yann said spicy Chinese hot pot was introduced into high-end restaurants in Myanmar after spicy mixed vegetables sold by Chinese people became popular in the local area.
He said Chinese hot pot is very popular in Yangon, with many shops in high streets selling malatang (hot spicy soup) and spicy hot pot.
"Many Myanmar people can say 'hot pot,' 'mala' and other Chinese words, which are also indispensable topics in our conversations with Myanmar friends," Li said.
According to data from China's e-commerce platforms Meituan and Dianping at the beginning of this year, the searches for "mala" and "hot pot" in Thailand had increased by 700 percent year on year.
More and more restaurants featuring mala barbecue and hot pot have sprung up in the popular resorts of Bangkok and Phuket.
Hot pot chain Xiabu Xiabu said that the company's performance is also recovering and the group will continue its expansion strategy this year, with more openings in the pipeline.
Many restaurants offer New Year dish packages such as hot pot and pizza to meet the needs of home gatherings.
It is like a melting pot nurturing unintended, and at one time unimaginable benefits of cross innovation.
China also has seen a booming export of characteristic foods, such as river snail rice noodle, self-heating hot pot and spicy gluten, thanks to the convenience of cross-border logistics and payment, Jimu News reported.
For example, Shenzhen, Guangdong province, is a melting pot of talent with big diversity.
About an hour later, a pot of freshly cooked rice is ready for Gu and his friends to enjoy.
Hotpot allows diners to cook almost any food in a boiling, often spicy, pot.
The most common ingredients put into the pot include thinly sliced lamb or beef, offal, seafood and vegetables.
More international foods are expected to join the hotpot, and more global goods will enter the vast Chinese market, which is as open and inclusive a melting pot as the hotpot.
Chengdu is well known as being a leisure city, boasting local specialties such as hot pot, teashops and panda reserves, said Xie Ling, managing director of the Southwestern China region at CBRE, a United States-based commercial real estate company, adding that the enjoyable lifestyle in the city also derives in part from a safe living environment.
It covers a variety of businesses, including private, State-owned and foreign-invested enterprises, both domestic and international, which operate in formats such as full-service restaurants, hot pot, group dining, tea beverage outlets and others.
Recently, a batch of packaged self-heating hot pot products was shipped to Tokyo from a port in Jinpu New Area of Dalian, Liaoning province.
This marked the first-ever seaborne shipment of Chinese self-heating hot pot products in their entirety.
"Previously, self-heating hot pot products were only exported as individual ingredients and heating packs, which were shipped separately from various ports in China and then assembled at the destinations," said Zhang Lei, general manager of Dalian Maruyama Food Co.
Last year, it exported nearly 2,000 metric tons of meat products, including about 20 tons of beef, for a well-known hot pot brand.
In 2021, the company started producing beef hot pot packs for the brand, specifically for its Japanese market, where it has hot pot restaurants as well as convenience products sold in supermarkets.
The successful seaborne shipment of the first batch of self-heating hot pot products in their entirety was a result of that strategy.
Recently, self-heating hot pot products have developed rapidly to satisfy picky palates in the form of instant meals.
Self-heating hot pot requires no external heat source like fire or electricity.
One of the biggest challenges in exporting a self-heating hot pot in its overall package form is the heating pack, a critical component that releases a flammable gas when it comes in contact with water, said Wu Jinlian, general manager of Dalian Linghang International Logistics Co. "The heating pack is classified as a dangerous good for export.
There are no clear regulations on how to transport the assembled self-heating hot pot products, which contain both food and dangerous chemicals, she added.
"We purchased a dozen brands of self-heating hot pot products, repeated trials and tests and verification, assessed their safety risks, and constantly optimized the cargo transportation plan," said Luo.
Based on the solid test conclusions, they determined the international general safety transportation requirements for the product and issued the first domestic identification report on the safe transportation conditions of self-heating hot pot by sea.
With the significant reduction of production and logistics costs, the resulting price advantage will further enhance the competitiveness of self-heating hot pot products in the international market," said Wu, whose company is currently working to export self-heating hot pot products to the Republic of Korea and Southeast Asia.
Between May and June, Haidilao, a leading hot pot brand, rolled out 200,000 sets of children's meals, priced at 39 yuan each, with a complementary Miffy rabbit mini bag.
Sales of such meals, including meats, seafood, vegetables and hot pot, have been growing rapidly.
She and her friend ordered a peach oolong-flavored tiramisu, coconut milk jelly and a pot of Longjing osmanthus black tea.
The steaming-hot pot, about two meters in diameter, was filled with various local specialties, such as fried tofu, local ribs, and meatballs, as well as fresh fish and shrimp caught through newly-cut holes in the ice.
The pot stood on the frozen surface of the Yellow River at its section of Pianguan county, North China's Shanxi province.
The demand for dinner, hot pot and tea drinks is expected to be strong during family reunions and friends gatherings in this year's Spring Festival, according to the study into chain catering and tea drinks companies.
Most of the supermarkets project steady sales growth of rice, flour, grain and oil, seasoning and vegetables, sharp sales rise of fruit and meat, and sales growth potential of frozen food such as prepared food and food for hot pot, the report said.
We have already launched other products like flavoring, self-heating chicken soup with ginseng, and South Korean-style hot pot seasonings," Li said.
The dishes include hot pot shrimp paste, tilapia slices, frozen roasted tilapia of spicy flavor, tilapia soup with pickled vegetables, spicy-flavored frozen boiled tilapia slices and spicy frozen crawfish.
A report by the Guotai Junan Securities showed that Chinese barbecue is second only to hot pot among late-night dining options.
A medium-sized pot of abalone, fish glue and chicken sells for 169 yuan.
The company will join hands with Jubaoyuan, a famous traditional Peking hot pot restaurant, to launch meal packages, which include hand-cut beef, mutton and sesame pancakes.
Cheese was not commonly consumed in China but has seen strong market potential due to the rising popularity of Western cuisine and innovative dining options such as cheese hot pot and milk tea with cheese topping.
Their dream of securing the proverbial first pot of gold has been blown to smithereens.
Calling the Retail's Big Show "a melting pot of ideas," Mathews underscored the importance of exchange and communication in order to strengthen cooperation in the sector and promote the industry.
They drink several times a day the mint-flavored tea made from green tea, fresh mint leaves and white sugar, usually served in traditional handmade pot.
But we have seen pretty good sales at some hot pot restaurants as well.
Real estate is not a chamber pot.
According to JLL data, residential transaction volume slumped 29.2 percent quarter-on-quarter in the 20 hots pot cities the property consultancy tracked across China, and dropped 8.7 percent over the same period last year.
Hot pot rose to be the most popular food in term of online orders, the report showed.
China's largest seafood hot pot chain Haidilao launched in recent years a series of instant self-heating hot pots, with each pack containing the brand's trademark dishes.
Video storytelling has greatly boosted sales, with sales of the featured cooking pot sets over a 14-hour period exceeding sales over the previous 30-day period by 50 times, following a webisode called Night Warriors's Launch, the company said.
He said Hong Kong is a melting pot of local companies, businesses from the Chinese mainland and foreign companies.
As if to make up for the disruption in traditional festivities, Huawei Cloud, the cloud computing unit of Huawei Technologies Co, is partnering with Haidilao, China's leading hot pot chain, to offer consumers cloud-based reunion dinners with their family members and friends far away.
Children can eat hot pot in their city, while their parents, relatives or friends may do so at the same time in their hometown.
As the Chinese mainland further opens its financial markets to foreign investors, riding high on financial technology and green financing, financial institutions in Hong Kong are virtually staring at a pot of gold by strengthening their business platforms in these fields, while complementing national development.