Dietitian, Sylvia LAM, shares with us a few health tips about hot pot meal:

Selection of soup base: Healthier choices Plain chicken broth, fish soup with bean curd, seafood soup with dried scallops, winter melon soup, tomato and potato soup, corn, carrot and sugarcane soup, soya milk soup, white fungus soup with fig Less healthy choices Pork bone soup, cheese soup base, chocolate soup, shacha soup base, "Drunken chicken" (wine-brined chicken) soup, Sichuan-style hot-and-spicy soup, miso soup, soup made with whole milk

Selection of dipping sauce: Healthier choices Soya sauce with spring onion, garlic, ginger or pepper Less healthy choices Commercial sauces such as Shacha sauce, sesame sauce, peanut sauce and chilli oil

Selection of food Ingredients:

Food Items	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.	--
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.