Shuang Shuang, Chinatown’s specialist hot pot restaurant is set to collaborate with some of London’s most exciting chefs to design a series of limited edition hot pots. From July to November there will be a new hot pot on the menu every month, with the chefs adding their experience, inspirations and treasured flavours, quite literally, into the pot.
Founder Fah Sundravorakul has teamed up with Neil Rankin (author of Low and Slow: How to Cook Meat), Uyen Luu (author of My Vietnamese Kitchen), Sandia Chang (bubbledogs, Kitchen Table) and the team behind som saa to showcase their own interpretation of hot pot, combining over 1,000 years of history with their individual cooking styles.
July sees the first hot pot designed by meat master Neil Rankin whose Blood, Bones and Umami Beef Broth will be accompanied with bone marrow, Clonakilty black pudding, brisket point and Shitake mushrooms, followed by a sweet Tam Fruit Salad. Uyen Luu fuses Chinese tradition with Vietnamese flavours in September with a sweet and sour fish broth, topped with an abundant herb garnish and accompanied by large herbal leaves, lettuce and rice paper so guests can cook their ingredients in the simmering pot before wrapping them into a summer style roll. Onto October with Andy Oliver and Mark Dobbie from som saa who will bring authentic Thai flavours to the boil with a kuai tiao ruea noodle soup; a deeply flavoured broth topped with beansprouts, rice noodles, thai basil and accompanied with pork balls. Rounding off the series in November, Sandia Chang will make her mark on hot pot’s history with a vegetarian roasted corn broth.
‘One of the beauties of hot pot is that there are so many potential flavour combinations, over 5 million in fact. It’s a fun dish that is open to interpretation and I’m delighted that these brilliant chefs are making their own stamp on it’, says Fah.
Each chef will launch their hot pot on the 20th of every month and the special will appear on the menu for the following four weeks:
Neil Rankin: 20th July – 19th August
Uyen Luu: 20th September – 19th October
som saa: 20th October – 19th November
Sandia Chang: 20th November – 19th December
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