Hot Pot in Chongqing

Introduction

Chongqing is famous for its hot Sichuan cuisine and world-famous hotpot dishes. Street vendors well as restaurant feature exciting spicy delicacies for the adventurers. Saying ‘people make food their heaven', thousands of restaurants are scattered throughout every corner of the city, luring customers from home and abroad with their different specialties. As one branch of Sichuan cuisine, Chongqing cuisine is noted for its distinctive spicy and pungent flavor. Different from Chengdu cuisine, Chongqing dishes are spicier and stronger in taste. Changing is the birth place of hot pot which is called HuoGuo or ‘firepot'. Hot pot invented by local boatmen and Dockers in the late 19 th century and early 20 th century, and the dish was made from cheap meats, hot peppers and ginger, which after being boiled together in a big pot, can be eaten effectively dispel cold, damp and tiredness. More than 1,000 hot pot restaurants which are mainly in the form of chain restaurants have spread to 23 provinces and municipalities in china and foreign countries including the United States . Each corners of Chongqing , the hot pot restaurants would be found. The local people really put their passion in the native dish. Today, hot pot is a mark of Chongqing home and abroad. Moreover, once upon a time, hot pot was a seasonal food designed to protect against the low temperatures and frigid winds of the winter. People would sit around a table eat hot pot and revel in the instant warmth that would flood their bodies. It has become more and more popular and is widely enjoyed regardless of seasons and regions. There are three kinds of hot pot. First, the spicy version called ‘Hong tang' or ‘Red soup'. Then, there is basically a bone soup without any spices and tasty, simply asking for ‘Yuan Wei' or telling them ‘Wo Bu Yao La' which means ‘I don't want the spicy stuff!' Finally, there is a compromise ‘Yuan Yang Huo Guo', or called ‘mandarin duck hot pot' which originally named ‘double taste hot pot'.

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Chongqing XiaoTian E Hot Pot Address: Yuzhong District, near by Carrefour Supermarket .

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Chongqing DeZhuang Hot Pot Address: No.85 JiaoChangKou, YuZhong District .

Chongqing QingMa Hot Pot Address: Shapingba District, near by No.1 middle school

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Chongqing Grandmother Bridge Hot Pot Address: JieFangBei, YuZhong District

Chongqing WuMiZhou Hot Pot Address: Nanbing Road , Nanping District