Anticipating Lunar New Year, NYC hot pot fans share a warm obsession

Essentially a big vessel of steaming broth that cooks in the center of your table, whether at home or in a restaurant, hot pot is simmering constantly and eaten communally. Diners add ingredients like meat, seafood, tofu and veggies to the broth as it cooks, pull them out when they’re done, dip them in a flavorful sauce and eat them.

Tang Yousheng, known among friends as Yoshi, is a hot pot obsessive, whose passion for the hot soup dates back to his childhood in Shanghai in the 1980s, celebrating the Lunar New Year.