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Festive recipe: Healthier hotpot to celebrate Chinese New Year

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An all-vegetable and meat-free steamboat meal can be healthier, yet still as lavish and flavoursome for a festive meal.

An all-vegetable and meat-free steamboat meal can be healthier, yet still as lavish and flavoursome for a festive meal.

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SINGAPORE – To meat lovers, a veggie hotpot may sound austere and at odds with the idea of festive indulgence. 

But with all the heavy feasting this time of the year, a plant-based hotpot may be just the thing to avoid post-meal remorse. It also makes a refreshing change from the avalanche of seafood, meat and overly-rich snacks of the season.

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