Rainy day soup

Instead of kvetching about the endless rain, appreciate the last of spring’s showers with a Vietnamese hot pot. Its spicy and warm broth won’t taste as good in a month—now’s the time. The seafood hot pot ($29.99 for a size small that feeds two people, $49.99 large) at the recently opened Seafood House Quan Oc comes with a bounty of shrimp, mussels, silken tofu, half-circle fish balls and those made into gumdrop-shaped twirls filled with sweet roe, enokitake mushrooms and seasonal veggies. Plop it all into a spicy broth flavored with chunks of tender pork. Stay warm while you still want to. 6471 Stockton Boulevard, (916) 399-4918.