A view of a copper pot and hotpot ingredients are displayed at Shenyang's first hotpot ingredients fair, held in Liaoning province, on Oct 27. The fair is aimed at promoting China's traditional cuisine and providing a one-stop shopping platform for local residents, as well as a trading platform for hotpot ingredients dealers.
A woman cooks hotpot for visitors at her booth. Covering an area of 4,200 square meters, the exhibition hall, with some 80 exhibition booths showcases various hotpot ingredients from home and abroad, and is expected to attract around 10,000 visitors, of which more than 80 percent of them are professional ingredient dealers.