An alternative take on hot pot; the “dry pot” whereupon your chosen ingredients are cooked and then flung together and served up in an imitation earthenware pot. Both the ma and la varieties of “spicy” are available, wherein “ma” can mean “numbing” and “la” can be thought of as “firey”, with the former largely consitituting the bulk of Sichuan food and the latter that of Hunan Province. Meat dishes are also available in half portions. Three other locations in Nanjing plus others in Wanda plazas in Wuxi, Hefei, Huan’an, Zhenjiang, Changzhou and Taizhou.