Dietitian Guide
Table 2: Recommended and Unrecommended Foods for Hot Pot Meals
Soup Base |
Recommended |
Not recommended |
Plain chicken broth |
Pork bone soup |
Fish soup with bean curd |
Cheese soup base |
Seafood soup with dried scallops |
Chocolate soup |
Winter melon soup |
Shacha soup base |
Tomato and potato soup |
Drunken chicken (wine-brined chicken) soup |
Corn, carrot and sugarcane soup |
Sichuan-style hot and-spicy soup |
Soya milk soup |
Miso soup |
White fungus soup with fig |
Soup made of whole milk |
Food |
Recommended |
Not recommended |
Fish Balls, Meatballs or Dumplings |
White fish balls, lean beef balls, dace fish balls, lobster meatballs, lean pork balls. |
Taiwan style meatballs, deep-fried fish slices, deep-fried fish balls and dumplings with fish wrap. |
Meats |
Skinned and boned chicken, mutton, beef, beef shanks or ostrich meat. |
Marbled beef, pork jowl, luncheon meat and offal. |
Seafood |
All seafood except cuttlefish, squid, oyster and eel (which contain a high level of cholesterol and not suitable for people with cardiovascular diseases) |
Deep-fried fish skin |
Vegetable |
All leafy vegetables and mushrooms. |
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Bean Products |
Bean curd and fresh bean curd sheets |
Deep-fried bean curd, fried gluten and deep-fried bean curd sticks/sheets. |
Noodles |
Udon noodles, Shirataki noodles, rice vermicelli, rice noodles, fresh noodles and Shanghai rice cake. |
Instant noodles, yi-noodles (pre-fried noodles) and oil noodles. |
Drinks |
Water, tea and fresh juice |
Beer, soft drinks, sour prune juice, sugarcane juice, sugar cane and imperatae drink. |
Dipping Sauce |
Recommended |
Not recommended |
Soya sauce with spring onion, garlic, ginger or pepper. |
Commercial sauces such as Shacha sauce, sesame sauce, peanut sauce and chilli oil. |
“Should not take commercial sauces, such as Shacha sauce, sesame sauce, peanut sauce and chilli oil.”
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