"this will blow your head off!"

Ching-he Huang demonstrates how to make a Szechuan Fire Pot spicy broth.

"This is a mouth-tingling, numbing hotpot! The spicy soup stock base is a delicious broth in which fresh ingredients are poached - like a Chinese fondue. The Mandarin word for such a feast is 'Huo-guo', meaning 'hotpot', because all the ingredients are cooked in a hotpot!

I love this kind of feast, it is easy to prepare, and is great for interaction with friends. All you need is an electric wok or fondue set up in the centre of the table and plenty of soup ladles and away you go. I had this dish in Chengdu in the middle of summer and it was fantastic. Be warned - this is extremely spicy."

**EDIT**
for some reason the embed code from Cooking Channel isn't working, so here's the link to the page with the video I was trying to share with you good people:

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/cook/video/player/0,1001203,COOK_42654_7921_37787-54525,00.html

go here for the full ingredients & step-by-step recipe:

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/ching-he-huang/spicy-hotpot-recipe/index.html