Healthy Hotpot
Stay safe while enjoying good food
Hotpot dining, the popular pastime of eating meals such as seafood or meat soup from a shared pot, is a fun way of socialising. But the Hong Kong Department of Health warns that if precautions are not taken, it can lead to serious illness such as food poisoning. The department has a few suggestion to keep everyone dipping into the hotpot healthy.
- Make sure the seafood in your hotpot is fresh, thoroughly cooked and doesn't have a strange smell.
- Never use raw egg yolk as a dipping sauce. Uncooked eggs can be contaminated with salmonella bacteria.
- Meat should be cut into thin slices and cooked thoroughly in the hotpot.
- Fresh vegetables should be washed thoroughly to remove any pesticides.
- Use different sets of chopsticks to handle raw and cooked meat in order to avoid cross
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