Ethiopia: Cooking up Storms of One's Own in Hot Pots

The conventional way of eating certain customary Chinese dishes, namely hotpot and barbeque, is to cook it oneself, even in the case of eating such fine food in a restaurant. The Beijing Chinese Restaurant, located in a renovated house just 10 metres off Bole Road, up a side street by Fantu Supermarket, opened about four months ago.

The only dishes on offer are hot pot or barbequed meat and customers cook the food at their table themselves a kesel mandija (a pot in which charcoal fires are made for cooking), or, in the case of their culinary preparation skills failing them, the waiters can assist.

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