Nan Hotpot Albany is a hot pot restaurant in Albany, North Shore City, rated 4.1 by visitors.
Hot pot works best shared around a table, with everyone cooking their own choice of meat, seafood and vegetables together in a simmering broth rather than ordering separate individual meals. Regulars know it is worth choosing a broth suited to the group's spice tolerance, since a very hot broth can overwhelm milder ingredients and is hard to adjust once the meal has started. Ordering in stages rather than all at once helps manage the pace of a meal, since raw ingredients need to be cooked as you go and a table quickly loaded with too much food can go cold before it is used. Splitting a pot into two broths, where offered, suits a group with mixed spice preferences at the same table.
In Albany on Auckland's North Shore, Nan Hotpot Albany is a local option for hot pot.