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A customer at Sunset Super on Irving Street shops for meat at the hot pot section. Photo by Junyao Yang on Dec. 23, 2025. I spent my early childhood in Zigong, a hilly city — much like San Francisco, ...

As a passionate hot-pot fan who grew up with the buffet-in-a-pot in both of my cultures (I’m from Hong Kong and Hawaii), I long thought of hot pot as an activity you do outside the house since both of ...