A divided hot pot has a partition in the middle, with spicy red broth on one side and clear broth on the other.
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Mandarin ducks, 鸳鸯, swim in pairs, drake and hen looking quite different, so the word stands for a matched pair of two unlike things. In a 鸳鸯锅 the pair is the two broths, often divided by a curve like a yin-yang symbol.
