Hot pot Coloring Pages

Warm heart and body! Everyone loves Hot pot

Hot pot is a dish where you put meat, fish, vegetables, and mushrooms into a big pot and simmer them together. Sitting around one pot with your family and friends on a cold winter day warms up your heart as well as your body. It is a winter treat that people in Japan have loved for a very long time.

Many different types of Hot pot

In Japan, there are so many types of Hot pot depending on the area and ingredients. It is fun because the soup tastes different and some have special rules for how to eat them.

• Yosenabe: This is the most popular Hot pot. You bring together and cook all kinds of ingredients like fish, shellfish, meat, and vegetables. It uses different soups, like soy sauce or miso.
• Chanko nabe: This is the Hot pot sumo wrestlers eat to grow big and strong. It has lots of meat and vegetables and is full of good things for you.
• Kimchi nabe: This Hot pot has red soup made with spicy kimchi. It makes you feel nice and warm, so it is perfect for a cold day.

How to Choose Colors to Make It Look Yummy

When you color a Hot pot coloring page, the key is to imagine and ask yourself, "What kind of soup is in the Hot pot?" and "What kind of ingredients are inside?"

• Soup Colors: The color changes depending on the flavor of your Hot pot. Try coloring it brown for soy sauce flavor, light yellow for salt flavor, red or orange for kimchi Hot pot, or creamy white for soy milk Hot pot.
• Vegetable Colors: Chinese cabbage and green onions have white parts and green parts. It will look real if you make the colors a little darker or see-through, just like when they are cooked. Color the carrots orange and the shiitake mushrooms brown.
• Meat Colors: Uncooked meat is red or pink, but if you want to make delicious cooked meat, try mixing in a little brown or gray.
• Tofu: Tofu is white, but if you add a tiny bit of shadow (gray) or layer a little bit of the soup color on it, it will look like it is really inside the Hot pot.
• Steam: There should be warm steam rising above the Hot pot. You can leave some white spaces, or draw fluffy lines with light gray or light blue to make it look super hot!

Let's Color a Cool Clay Pot

The "clay pot" used for Hot pot is a special pot made from clay. They are often black or brown, but some have flower patterns, or are bright colors all over. It would be fun to draw your favorite patterns and make your very own original clay pot!

Try Creative Backgrounds

Try drawing the table where the Hot pot sits. If you line up chopsticks, small plates, and little bowls for ponzu sauce, it will look like a meal ready to eat. If you make it snow outside the window, it will feel even more like a warm winter room.

Protecting the peace of the Hot pot? The "Hot pot magistrate"

When everyone eats Hot pot together, some people give detailed instructions on the order to add ingredients and how strong the heat should be. They make it in the most delicious way! People call this person the "Hot pot magistrate." They get this name because they take charge like a "magistrate," an important official from long ago.

There are others, too! Unique Hot pot roles

Actually, there are other funny names besides the magistrate.

• Scum Governor: When you boil a Hot pot, white foam (called scum) comes to the top. This is the person who carefully scoops it all out. It is a play on words with "evil governor."
• Waiting Maiden (Waiting Magistrate): This is the person who does not do any work at all. They just wait patiently for the Hot pot to be ready and focus on eating! It is a play on words with "town maiden" (or "town magistrate").

When you have a Hot pot with everyone, which role do you play?