Thursday, June 26, 2025

1,000 People, 1 Giant Hot Pot: Wildest Food Festival in China!

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In China, an event where approximately 1,000 people shared a hot pot measuring 14 meters (about 45.9 feet) in diameter was held.

According to a post on the Chinese social media platform Weibo on the 25th, a video showed 1,000 people enjoying a massive hot pot at the Xiantang Industrial Park in Meishan, Sichuan Province, on the 21st.

The organizers spent 100,000 yuan (approx. US$13,800) to create this pot, which can serve 138 people at once and weighs 10 tons. They reportedly used about 2 tons of ingredients for the hot pot, including the broth.

This event was designed to promote the local area through hot pot. The organizers stated, “Citizens and tourists could taste hot pot for free, and around 1,000 people attended the event.”

The video released shows hundreds of people seated around the enormous pot, using chopsticks to pick food from the red broth and dip it into sauce.

Initially posted on Weibo, the video quickly spread to X and has become a topic of discussion in South Korea.

People who viewed the video online have criticized China’s sense of hygiene.

One Chinese netizen pointed out, “A thousand people’s saliva mixed,” and added, “People repeatedly put their chopsticks in their mouths and then into the broth in the pot. If someone gets sick, everyone will suffer together. What kind of culture is this?”

Others made similar remarks, such as, “The pot has saliva from hundreds of people,” “This is so disgusting. Hasn’t the pandemic (COVID-19) just passed?” and “It makes me feel nauseous.”

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