饭店基本信息：名字，规模

The restaurant I’d like to talk about is Haidilao, literally, means treasure-hunting in the ocean. It’s a hotpot restaurant serving Sichuan cuisine spicy hotpot. It’s a nation-wide chain restaurant catering nearly 5 million customers around China every year.

饭店地理位置和历史

The one I’d like to talk about is the oldest one housed in Beijing. It’s 3 kilometers from the city center and has been being there for 12 years.

饭店饮食以及服务

As a hotpot restaurant, Haidilao puts a simmering(炖煮) metal pot at the center of the dining table. While the hot pot is kept simmering, ingredients are placed into the pot and are cooked at the table. The hot pot dishes here include thinly sliced meat, leaf vegetables, mushrooms, dumplings, and seafood. Vegetables, fish and meat should be fresh. The cooked food is usually eaten with a dipping sauce.

跟其他饭店对比

Compared to other less popular hotpot restaurants, Haidilao keeps serving fresh meat instead of frozen meat, and this will be beneficial to both nutrition intake as well as taste.