[China] From Hot Spicy to Healthy / Many restaurants in line to open beauty hot pot restaurants with "flower gelato"
- Release date: Dec 23, 2019
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The hottest ingredient for 2019 is the collagen-rich "flower gel"
Signs of change in hot pot craze as people shun shark's fins
Shanghai has a variety of restaurants specializing in different genres of hot pot, with a different hot pot boom coming every few years (e.g. bullfrog hot pot prior to 2018). Hot pot with huajiao (花胶) is a healthy way to enjoy the taste of light broth, which is quite different from what has been popular in the past. The boom is believed to be due to the emergence of a trend among health-conscious people to shun extremely spicy food and the recent emergence of a segment of the population that does not eat shark fins, which are rich in collagen, from the perspective of environmental protection and animal welfare. Another reason for the accelerated boom is the increase in the number of restaurants in Shanghai in recent years that have come from Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, the home of huajiao cuisine. Translated with AI Translatortor-

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