Hot shot

If any of you have had hot pot...hold onto your seat, literally. I went out with Wei's uncle and his work friends my last night in Beijing. We went to a Sichuan restaurant, which is known for spicy food. We walked through a restaurant, its kitchen, outside and back into a small room which felt like a sauna for dinner and this thing showed up at the table. At the base is something like an oven pan, and on it is a metal stand which is filled with hot coals to keep the top hot, another pan filled with an entire fish which has been gutted, scallions, cilantro, ginger and more chilies than one would normally eat. After the fish was gone, they brought out pieces of nan (Indian bread) to dip into the, by the end, liquid fire. We cooled the burn with copious amounts of Tsingtao Beer.