I saw that H Mart’s Chinese Hot Pot Kit has people lining up at stores almost like a video games or manga release.
My blog about Jeff Mao’s Hot Pot Cookbook might provide some interesting recipes for first-time purchasers:
https://ruthpaget.blogspot.com/2023/04/chinese-hot-pot-meals-by-ruth-paget.html?m=1
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France and developer of the of the Novgorod and Bento War Games