Originally Posted by
Scifience
Hot pot itself won't generally contain egg products, but cross contamination (which is going to be your big problem anyway) can still be an issue. Some people also dip meat from the hot pot into bowls of raw egg, and will then use their chopsticks (now with traces of egg) to grab another bite from the pot. Honestly, having seen the inside of a good number of restaurant kitchens in China, even white rice isn't necessarily safe from having come in contact with a serving utensil or bowl also used at some point for something containing eggs.
Our last trip I found some whole kernel corn in white rice. I can't imagine why it was there but apparently the waitress knew--after the discovery she said she had no way of knowing what bowls of rice contained it.
Fortunately for me things like that are mild enough I can simply pick it out with no worries.