Is Hotpot Healthy?

Snappy Sario, May 17, 2025

Let’s be honest. “Healthy” isn’t why most people walk into a hotpot restaurant.

They come for the broth, rich, steaming, sometimes spicy enough to make your scalp sweat. They come for the beef, fatty, thin-sliced, glistening like it was born to be dipped. They come for the company, a table full of people who don’t believe in portion control.

But somewhere between the dipping, the boiling, and the slurping, something happens.

You look around and realize: this doesn’t feel like guilt food.

It feels… good.

More Veg Than You Think

Take a minute to really look at a Filipino hotpot spread. Yes, there’s meat, lots of it. Superior striploin. Chuck. Tripe if you’re bold. But look closer.

There’s bok choy, crisp and bright. Corn on the cob, sliced into rounds like edible sunshine. Mushrooms, tofu, seaweed, carrots, tomatoes, lotus root, the kind of ingredients you’d find in the kitchen of someone who shops at the weekend palengke and actually knows how to cook.

And they’re not deep-fried.

They’re not drowned in cheese.

They’re just dropped into broth and pulled out at the perfect moment, hot, soft, and full of flavor. In other words: real food, cooked clean.

A Broth-Based Life

Most diets are about subtraction.

Less sugar. Less fat. Less fun.

But hotpot flips that. You’re not cutting things out — you’re putting things in. Into the broth. Into your bowl. Into your body.

That sibut broth with herbs and roots that smell like your Lola’s medicine cabinet? That’s not a gimmick. That’s hundreds of years of wisdom simmering under the lid.

Clear soup? That’s hydration with a soul.

Spicy broth? Call it cleansing, if you like. At the very least, it’ll reset your sinuses and your attitude.

This is broth-based dining, not some buzzword trend, just a way of eating that makes sense. You sip. You sweat. You feel lighter after, not heavier.

Choose Your Own Clean Eating Adventure

The beauty of hotpot, especially at places like Supreme Beef Hotpot, is that you’re in charge.

Want to go full veggie? You can.

Want to keep it lean with brisket and tofu? No one’s stopping you.

Want to drown everything in garlic, sesame oil, and chili? That’s your call.

There’s no pre-set plate, no judgment, no one-size-fits-all.

Just a pot, a pair of chopsticks, and the kind of freedom that doesn’t usually come with dining out.

That’s why clean eating hotpot isn’t a trend. It’s a style. A lifestyle, even, if you’re paying attention.

A Different Kind of Full

The truth is, we don’t eat hotpot because it’s “healthy.”

We eat it because it makes us feel something, full, yes, but also satisfied in a way that fried chicken and fast food just don’t deliver.

There’s a rhythm to it.

Dip. Swirl. Sip. Talk. Repeat.

It forces you to slow down. To pay attention. To eat better by default.

And maybe that’s what makes it secretly good for you.

Not the broth. Not the tofu. Not the leafy greens.

The ritual.