The spread included three different types of noodles, slices of different meats, prawns, oysters, mushrooms, leafy greens, calamari and fish balls. All nicely laid out on plates. There were two pots of chicken broth that were steaming hot.

I made my own secret sauce with a combination of hoisin sauce, sesame oil, chilli sauce, white pepper and other jars of goodies. Everyone gets to make their own special sauce which is placed in a little dish next to your setting.

Then you grab whatever ingredients you want and place them into the hot pots. When they are cooked, you fish them out with a small strainer. There is an art to this as you want to put the ingredients that take the longest to cook in first such as the cabbage an then place ingredients such as prawns and oysters in last.

With the ingredients fished out with the strainer and placed in your own bowl, you then take a bit of the sauce to flavor the meal.

We all ate until we were stuffed which is the only polite thing to do at these holiday get-togethers. To top it all off, for dessert we had my ‘I dream of lemons’ Lemon Dream Cupcakes and an Oreo cheesecake that Kristen made.

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Loni Kao Stark

Loni is a self-professed foodie, adventure travel seeker and aspiring artist. It's been said her laugh can be heard from San Jose all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge. She's been known to dance and spin across Napa and the Baja. The former Ms. Global Petite runner-up is host of WineTube TV, SSC Presents and The Artist Diaries. In a former life she was simply: "sushiweakness." More »

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