In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Use 5 cups (1.25 L) of water, or enough water to fill the pot two-thirds full. The ideal pot will be large and shallow. A clay pot is the most traditional option, but a stainless steel pot can work just as well. You could even use a skillet if you cannot find a suitable pot that is both large and shallow. You will also need a portable or tabletop electric burner. Alternatively, simplify the process by using an electric skillet instead of a separate pot and burner. Place the seaweed in the water and let it soak for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, arrange all of the other hot pot ingredients on a large serving plate, organizing them into clusters based on type. This serving platter will be situated next to the hot pot as your ingredients cook. Heat the water on medium-high and let it simmer for 10 minutes. Remove the seaweed when done. You should be able to do this on your tabletop burner, but this step can also be done on your kitchen stove. Using your kitchen stove can save a little time since the water will heat up faster. Use long cooking chopsticks to fish out the seaweed. These chopsticks should also be used when handling the rest of your ingredients for the hot pot. Let the flavored water return to a boil, then add a little of the cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, and tofu to the water. Cook until crisp-tender. If you used your kitchen stove to boil the seaweed, transfer your pot of water to your tabletop burner and let the water return to a boil before adding your other ingredients. You should only add a few of the ingredients at a time. The pot should look full on the surface, but there should be plenty of room for you to fish around with your chopsticks. The ingredients cook at different paces, but most cook within a few minutes at most, so you'll need to continually check on the pieces after you add them. Each person should be able to cook his or her beef by dipping a thin slice into the boiling broth using chopsticks. Gently move it around in the hot liquid, keeping it submerged until it changed color from red to brown. This process should only take 10 to 20 seconds if the beef is truly thin enough. Each person must pull out the beef, vegetables, and other ingredients as they cook and eat them while they are still hot. As cooked ingredients are pulled out, raw ingredients should be put in the simmering water in their place. This cycle continues until all of the ingredients have been cooked and consumed. Dip the beef, mushrooms, vegetables, and tofu in either dipping sauce after cooking them and before eating them. Note that you may need to skim the scum and fat from the surface of the broth as the ingredients continue to cook. Use a sieve to remove the unsightly surface contaminants, then dip the sieve in a small bowl of clean water to rinse off the scum. Traditionally, the udon noodles are enjoyed last. Add them to the hot broth once all or most of the other ingredients are gone and simmer them for a few minutes, just until they become tender. Fish them out with your chopsticks and enjoy. You can flavor the udon with salt and pepper, if desired, or simply dip them into either dipping sauce. Once the udon noodles have been consumed, the meal is done.
Summary: Fill your shabu shabu pot with water. Soak the seaweed. Bring the water to a boil. Add the vegetables, mushrooms, and tofu. Add the slices of beef. Enjoy the food in cycles. Serve the udon noodles.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Reading a variety of riddles will help you understand how a riddle works. There are many books of riddles available, or you can find some online. Many cultures have riddle traditions. Viking and Anglo-Saxon riddles are still very popular with English speakers, even though they were first told more than a thousand years ago! These riddles often have simple solutions such as "key" or "onion," but are told in a creative way. You can find many collections online. Riddles are also quite popular in modern fantasy literature, movies, and TV. J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit has a whole chapter devoted to "Riddles in the Dark" told between two characters. Riddles can be about anything you can imagine, but physical objects that people are familiar with are very, very common topics. Other topics are natural phenomena like a storm or snow, an animal, or an action. Avoid topics that are very abstract or require specialized knowledge. Some riddles are very short, just a phrase or two, while others are more like a miniature story. You can make your riddle to be any length you want, but it shouldn't be so long that your audience can't follow it. Here is an example of a very short riddle from the Anglo-Saxon ''Book of Exeter'', written in the 900s AD: "A wonder on the wave / water became bone." (Answer: ice on a lake.) Here is an example of a longer riddle from the Book of Exeter: "When I am alive I do not speak. / Anyone who wants to takes me captive and cuts off my head. / They bite my bare body / I do no harm to anyone unless they cut me first. / Then I soon make them cry." (Answer: an onion.)
Summary:
Read a lot of riddles. Decide the subject of your riddle. Determine how long you want your riddle to be.