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Japanese hot pot dishes, also known as Nabe dishes. The common ingredients are vegetables: Japanese leek and Chinese cabbage, various mushrooms, and seafood or meat according to preferences. There is a great deal of varieties, depending on the region. Besides, this dish is mostly popular during the cold months in winter.
The most popular among hot pot dishes are the fallowing:

- A dish created from various fish cakes, daikon, boiled eggs, seaweed. These ingredients are boiled for many hours in a soya sauce based soup.
- A hot pot dish prepared with thinly chopped meat, vegetables, mushrooms, tofu and konyaku noodles. Before serving the pieces of food are dropped into a raw egg.
- Shabu-shabu is Japanese made variety of meat fondue. Thinly sliced pieces of meat, vegetables, mushrooms and tofu are dropped into a hot soup and after that into ponzu vinegar or a sesame sauce.
- Chanko nabe is the main food of sumo wrestlers. This dish has many varieties. A few restaurants which offer chanko nabe can be found in Ryogoku, the sumo district in Tokyo.