It is said to have originated in Jiangbei, across the river from Chongqing. At that time, the stretcher workers to buy buffalo offal, wash clean, liver, belly cut into small pieces, stretcher head with a stove, set a large foreign iron pot, become a multi-compartment, loaded with a kind of numbness, spicy, salty marinade, exclusively to the dock workers to sell.

Guests patronize, each identified a frame, and hot and eat. The Republic of 23 years in Chongqing city appeared more sizeable hot and spicy restaurants, just the compartmentalized iron pots replaced by a small pot of copper, by the guests to make their own marinade, dipping sauce.

It is also said that spicy originated in the Qing Dynasty during the Daoguang period, when the feast in Chongqing has tripe hot pot. Before that, Chongqing wharf there is a snack called water eight pieces, all cattle under the miscellaneous (tripe, liver and waist and cattle blood Wang), raw cut into thin slices, eaten in a clay stove on the casserole, with spicy butter with the marinade rolling hot. Diners bring their own wine and are billed by the empty plate after eating.

Some hot pot restaurants claim that their store recipes dating back to the Yuan and Song dynasties, this is pseudo-history, because chili peppers originated in Mexico, since the Ming Dynasty after the beginning of the coastal places from the Bashu place, so far in the local dialect, chili peppers are still called "sea pepper".

Expanded information:

Old-style Chongqing hot pots are often referred to as "old hot pots" because of their origins as "old hot pots" at the Chongqing wharf where boatmen and dockers gathered. Chongqing wharf gathering of boat people and dock workers mobility, hot pot placed in a well-shaped or cross-shaped iron frame divided into small compartments, the guests to choose each compartment, eat and go, hot pot base change infrequently and repeatedly used, the later guests will often find their own unordered dishes in the pot, and therefore is called the old hot pot.

Today, Chongqing hot pot has long gotten rid of the cheap image of roadside stalls, and developed into an iconic industry with considerable scale and reputation. Chongqing hot pot enterprises after the Association of unified standards, out of health habits are now required to take a disposable pot bottom system, in addition to even appear in order to take care of foreign friends accustomed to everyone a small pot of hot pot restaurant.

In terms of hot pot taste, Chongqing spicy hot pot from the current available to diners to choose from slightly spicy, spicy, extra spicy taste standards and even gradually try to excessive to the innovative way similar to the degree of alcohol to degree standardized breakdown of spicy Chongqing hot pot, in addition, Chongqing hot pot dishes are also in the industry tend to standardize the selection to meet the various needs of the customers and to ensure that dietary quality.

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