Chongqing hot pot, also known as beef omasum hot pot or spicy hot pot, is one of the traditional ways of eating in China. Its taste is "spicy, fragrant, salty, fresh, fragrant and crisp", which has the characteristics of diverse dishes, unique seasoning and bold eating method.
Chongqing hot pot originated from the extensive catering mode of boatmen at Jialing River and Chaotianmen Wharf in Chongqing in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Its main raw materials are tripe, pig yellow throat, duck intestines, cow blood and so on. Chongqing hot pot is about the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, that is, it is recorded that there are water pots at banquets in Chongqing. Li Jieren, a Sichuan writer, said in Local Customs that hot pot originated in Chongqing.
On March 20th, 2007, the third China (Chongqing) Hot Pot Food Culture Festival was held, and the Chinese Cuisine Association officially named Chongqing as "China Hot Pot Capital". 20/kloc-In May of 0/6, "Chongqing Hotpot" was elected as the first of the "Top Ten Cultural Symbols of Chongqing". The selection was conducted according to seven criteria: cultural content, popularity, reputation, representativeness, uniqueness, regionality and times.
Characteristics of Chongqing Hotpot
1, with diverse dishes.
Traditional tripe hotpot is mainly tripe. Authentic beef tripe hotpot dishes are almost all vegetarian dishes such as beef liver, beef heart, beef tongue, tenderloin, blood curd, lotus white, garlic sprout, onion festival and pea tip. On the basis of beef omasum hotpot, it developed into broth hotpot, Yuanyang hotpot, beer duck hotpot, fat beef hotpot, spicy chicken hotpot and so on. There are more than 100 kinds, as well as western-style hot pot eaten by foreigners.
2. Unique seasoning
In the preparation of ingredients, it can best represent the typical character of Chongqing spicy. Authentic beef omasum hotpot is famous for its heavy oil. Traditional soups are Pixian spicy douban, Yongchuan douchi, Ganzi butter and Hanyuan pepper.
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