Or you can adopt the local attitude that no weather is too bleak for a soak in a hot-pot (outdoor hot tub).

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Participants can enjoy a leisurely late-afternoon ride along the fjord's edge and into the surrounding hills, followed by a soak in the guesthouse's hot-pot plus a two-course dinner in the pretty onsite restaurant.

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The media earlier revealed a criminal ring that had been selling rat, fox and mink meat bought from farms in Shandong as mutton for hot-pot restaurants in Shanghai and neighbouring Wuxi since 2009.

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My hot pot-loving little sister, who lives with her family in Florida, simply cranks up the air-conditioning to enjoy huoguo year-round.

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It intends to fight on two fronts by introducing its lowest-priced mass-market hot pot brand, 12 Sabu, to China soon.

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But I ate hot pot growing up in the 1970s and '80s in South Carolina, and if my mother and father could find enough ingredients there to prepare the gut-busting hot pot meals we had at our house, you can find them anywhere.

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On DVD, Meyers' audience will fast-forward to the next hot scene featuring a naked copper pot.

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During dinner late one night, while Mr. Toba relaxed over a Japanese hot pot and local liquor, Taiga stomped around the house in basketball warm-ups and two pairs of eyeglasses one for his eyes and a pair of dark sunglasses perched on his forehead, because he thought they were cool.

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