豆浆火锅 Seafood Soy Milk Hotpot

Pinyin: dòu jiāng huǒ guō

God how I used to hate seafood. Crab would just about make me sick and clams, muscles, oysters were all too disgusting to actually eat. Fish was only OK as long as it wasn't too "fishy" tasting. But my oh my how things have changed since living in Shanghai. Seafood is amazing. All those little hardshell things like the clams and muscles and oysters are great. Shrimp are to die for, lobster is incredible, and just about every fish imaginable is excellent, cooked or not.

This seafood soy milk hotpot mixture was pretty tasty. Lots of good seafood, though not enough shrimp in my opinion, though one can never really have enough shrimp. The clams were a little chewy though so that was a real drawback, they obviously used cheap seafood as opposed to good seafood. But there was also tofu to be had aplenty and tofu is another one of those things that I've come to love in Shanghai.

There wasn't anything over the top about this soup it just worked out to be a good combination of seafood and tofu. Interestingly the soup was made from soy milk though that didn't affect the taste one way or the other, it just made the soup look a bit cloudy. I'd really like to see how another restaurant pulls off this dish. I won't be so inclined to order it again from this place, but I think the idea has potential.