They brought out a load of meat and veg and cooked a big proper meal, using some device I’d never seen before.
LOL! I don’t think they are BBQ-ing.
This type of cooking is very popular in the far east countries. Rather healthy too because they use very little oil but … I like to add MSG otherwise blunt. Yammy!
As above that is the conical shape chimney cooker they are using. You can buy them from Chinese supermarket or Vietnamese shop.
The most important aspect of this cooking is the soup or the base soup to flavour whatever they are cooking. You can buy the soup base/paste from Chinese Supermarket but a word of warning, they love spicy super hot chili based soup and most of the soup are chili based. Hence red in colour. LOL!
Once the soup has boiled they add the fresh ingredients to the soup to cook and the soup adds flavour to the food. Depending on what they are cooking individual will either dip the food into the boiling soup and cook to their individual liking, or simply let the food to boil. The more they cook the more the soup taste will change accordingly and the soup will reduce and you need to top it up again plus to add more soup base.
This sort of cooking is meant for gathering or amongst few friends.
If you ask me if I like this sort of cooking … I hate it. LOL! Once my mainland Chinese friends invited me to a dinner with this type of cooking I just found the food blunt tbh, but for my Chinese friends they were in high heavens!
Give it a go and you might like it.