A chicken in every pot!!

Since coming to China I have tried things I never thought in a gazillion years I would ever eat. Things like snails and bamboo shoots (quite good, snails were too!). I have slurped seaweed in all shapes and sizes. I have crunched on boiled jellyfish with a soy hot sauce. I have choked down boiled quail egg, and then came down with an attack of the hooha's. I have winced at boiled fish heads, goose gizzards, duck brains, and pig thing a ma bobs. I have already tried and eaten with delight several kinds of mushrooms. I have created dishes out of things I didn't know existed several weeks ago. Sometimes with grand success! Culinarily speaking just eating here is an adventure in itself. I have learned to wok eggs both omelette and fried. Truth is, I have wok cooked just about everything I can think of. I even tried to wok a pork roast, go figure. But what takes the cake to date is the waitress of our hot pot restaurant bringing a chicken over to the table live, and saying something like dinner...ah something hot pot soup. Not knowing what she was alluding to we said yes, enthusiastically! Fifteen minutes later, there was our chicken a cookin'! Now that is about the freshest meat I have ever eaten...