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