It should be clear now I hate steamboats or any kind of self-cooking. But I was persuaded by this interesting concept. Apparently there are Taiwanese who do this. The stone pot doubles up for a stir-fry by the staff of some of your ingredients. What's really pointless for me is when the stir-fry is done, you don't get to try it. The SOP is they'll then pour soup into the pot and transform it into steamboat, the idea being the stir-fry enhances the soup. But wait, someone forgot when you put something and soup together, it becomes soupy. That's just science. If you ask me, this really is just steamboat that's gimmicky.