Hotou at Kawaguchiko

I read that Hotou is a very famous dish of Kawaguchiko. Can anyone tell me does it has pork, besides the meat, how about it's broth? I don't eat pork

Tq,
Mel

The recipe I have and have used uses no pork. And even for the soup, only bonito fish flakes. The recipe here suggests sing "niboshi" (dried fish) for the soup, and says that "pork or chicken can be included by preference," though the main ingredients are vegetables.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dt%C5%8D

You might have to ask at the specific restaurant where you go.

Thanks!

It's spelled houtou, and it often includes pork for flavoring.

(I've had it with wild boar, which technically isn't pork.)

I've had it served both with pork and without, so you'd better ask at the restaurant.

Ok.. Tq!

To tell the truth, asking about ingredients at a restaurant in Japan isn't going to be 100% accurate. You can find many, many stories about people being assured that a particular dish has no meat or fish, and then having it arrive with obvious bits of bacon or shrimp on top of it.

Trying to find out whether they used pork fat or wild boar in the broth will be even more uncertain.