We in China say that "food is important" and that "food is the most important thing for the people", and food comes first. I think Chongqing is a city famous for its delicious food. After a long journey of 15 days, we arrived at the end of this century cruise ship, the mountain city of Chongqing.

When you get off the cruise ship, it is very likely that you will meet your shipmates in a hot pot restaurant immediately. Yes, if you don't eat hot pot once in Chongqing, you always feel something is wrong. Speaking of hot pot, do you know how many hot pot restaurants there are in Chongqing? According to the statistics in 2119, there are more than 26,111 hot pot restaurants in Chongqing. It's really walking on the road in Chongqing, and the smell of hot pot is everywhere. Everyone has their own hot pot list in their hearts. Xiaoqi will recommend a few things he has eaten and loved for your reference. Dezhuang Hotpot, Sister Pei's Hotpot and Brother Zhou's Hotpot will all be good. In addition, Xiaoqi would also like to introduce two local hot pots, Zhao Er Hotpot and Deng Mangzi Hotpot near Jie Fangbei. These two restaurants are similar to fly restaurants, and the environment is older, but the thick oil pot bottom and old meat slices are absolutely fragrant and mellow. Many people are afraid that Chongqing hot pot is too spicy, and the spicy degree of these two restaurants is completely acceptable as a northerner's seventh grade.

what is the perfect match for hot pot? Everyone knows that you have to drink Bingfeng beer with mutton bread in soup when you go to Xi 'an, so Weiyi soy milk is the best choice for eating hot pot in Chongqing. Try it. After eating hot pot, what for dessert? Xiaoqi recommends Chongqing Sanliang, ice dumplings, cakes and shrimps. After eating the hot pot, I took a bite of sesame dumplings with old brown sugar soup, and that kind of comfort was simply immortal.

If you stay in Chongqing for two or three days, you will have a chance to try various Chongqing specialties. Early in the morning, let's start with a bowl of Chongqing noodles. The first issue of "China on the Tip of the Tongue" focuses on the delicious food, and the key to whether it is delicious or not lies in the oil chili pepper. It is said that in Chongqing, every family has its own secret recipe of chili pepper oil, which can't be covered. Anyway, Xiaoqi asks her friends in Chongqing to send a few bottles of oil chili pepper every year, and stays at home to mix noodles and side dishes. What dishes are added with a spoonful of oil chili pepper, and the aroma suddenly fills the room, and the appetite naturally comes. You may have heard that Chongqing people can eat small noodles three times a day, but they are not tired of it? That's because there are so many kinds of noodles in Chongqing. In short, there are two kinds of noodles in Chongqing: noodle soup and dry noodles. According to different ingredients, there are beef noodles, beef tendon noodles, pea noodles, pork intestines noodles, Dandan Noodles noodles and pickled noodles ... So my friends who like noodles say that they can eat three meals a day, which I absolutely believe.

what else is delicious? Listen to Xiaoqi's name, boiled fish, mala Tang, Maoxuewang, beer duck, Geleshan spicy chicken, Qianjiang chicken offal, Tai 'an fish, Laifeng fish, spicy grilled fish, Baishiban duck, hot crispy, iced bean curd, roasted chicken, pickled pepper crispy sausage and spicy dried bean curd ... These are all Xiaoqi's favorite foods. Let's see if we can make up your menu for two or three days. By the way, buy some Hechuan peach slices, Chen Changyin's dough twists, Jiangjin popcorn and spicy beans as snacks.

After eating, let's talk about fun. As a city in online celebrity, one of the important reasons why Chongqing can shoot all kinds of super movies is that the well-known night view of Hongyadong, the Liziba where the light rail passes through the building, the super buildings with high-rise buildings like Hong Kong, the river-crossing bridge, the Yangtze River cable car and the antique ciqikou are not to be missed by friends who come to Chongqing for the first time.

Taking the Yangtze River cruise to Chongqing has a natural advantage, and we don't need to travel from the airport to the city. The place where we disembarked was Pier 11 at Chaotianmen, and Chaotianmen Wharf itself was the protagonist who often appeared in large-scale photography. Chaotianmen Wharf is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and Jialing River, where you can see the "horse water" formed by the collision and confluence of the green Jialing River and the yellow Yangtze River water. Xiaoqi still remembers the first trip to the Three Gorges by boat from Chaotianmen Wharf many years ago. It was in the evening when the boat sailed. Xiaoqi looked at Chaotianmen Wharf in the sunset like the bow of a huge ship, and the high-rise building built on the mountain in the distance slowly lit up, as if a magnificent picture scroll was slowly unfolding in front of him, which made people suddenly feel a sense of what is happening today. At that time, I was in a trance. This is the mountain city of Chongqing, which has appeared countless times in spy films, or the Hong Kong Island seen in Victoria Bay.

I don't know if you have this feeling. The beautiful scenery of all mountain cities has always been better from a distance than a close-up view. If you want to see the whole picture of Chaotianmen, you can only go to Nanbin Road on the other side of the river, and you can only see Nanbin Road from Chaotianmen. But taking a cruise on the Yangtze River can just avoid this trouble. All you need is to prepare your camera in advance.

As soon as you disembark from Chaotianmen Wharf, you will find Chaotianmen Square. Chongqing's "Zero Kilometer" sign is located in Chaotianmen Square, which is a symbol of a city center, just like Shanghai's "Zero Kilometer" is located in People's Square. So when we got off the boat, we went to the city center and crossed Chaotianmen Square, which is raffles city. This is one of the most prosperous business districts in Chongqing. Almost all the hot pot foods mentioned by Xiaoqi can be found in raffles city. If you want to visit famous brand stores, it is also the well-deserved first choice. If you go to Hongyadong after dinner, it is only less than one kilometer from Raffles, which is still very convenient.

To take a panoramic view of Chongqing, one is from Chaotianmen Wharf, and the other is overlooking Chongqing. There are several places that can overlook the two rivers and Chongqing, such as taking the cableway across the Yangtze River, but usually the queue time will be longer. The other place is a tree in Nanshan, but it will also be crowded, and the observation deck will have to charge extra tickets. However, objectively speaking, a tree in Nanshan is still worth going to, occupying a good position to watch the sunset slowly setting, and thousands of lights slowly spread all over Yuzhong District, which is really very beautiful. Xiaoqi feels that she is not lost at the top of Taiping Mountain overlooking Hong Kong Island. If you don't want to go to crowded places, Xiaoqi here recommends eling park in Yuzhong District. Eling park is located on the long and narrow mountain between the Yangtze River and Jialing River. It is the highest place on the Chongqing Peninsula. It is a private garden built in the late Qing Dynasty and is now open to the public free of charge. Located in the northwest corner of the park, Guansheng Building is an excellent place to overlook Chongqing and shoot night scenes. In addition, it is also the location of the movie "Passing Through Your World" at night in Chongqing. Standing on the top of the mountain, facing the river wind, watching the intersection of the two rivers and thousands of lights is a different experience.

After talking about the natural scenery and the humanities, the Bashu culture has always been a special favorite of Xiaoqi, especially the street culture here. In Chongqing, of course, ciqikou ancient town is such a place. You can find restaurants, tea shops and ice cream shops with different styles, which are small and fresh, quaint and even quaint. It is recommended to visit here when you first come to Chongqing. Ciqikou attracts more than 11,111 visitors every day. If you want to avoid the crowds, you might as well get up early and go to the ancient town around 8: 11. While the store has just removed the door panel to open the door, you will definitely be able to photograph a different ancient town.

Another place Xiaoqi would like to recommend to you is our old campus in Chuanmei. Xiaoqi had a classmate who graduated from Chuanmei Sculpture Department. Xiaoqi followed her to know Chuanmei and fell in love with this place from then on. Chuanmei is a magical place, where avant-garde and simple nature are integrated, without violating it. In Chuanmei's campus, you can see the most avant-garde sculptures. The graffiti wall in Huangjueping old campus is the largest graffiti wall in China and even in Asia. Even the external walls of residential buildings outside the school gate are painted with graffiti, which naturally blends in with Chuanmei. At the same time, there are still farmland in the campus, not farmland made for art, but real farmland where you can see farmers transplanting rice.

By the way, here is an old teahouse-Communications Teahouse. This is the only old teahouse in Chongqing that still retains the style of the 1971s and 1981s. As soon as I entered the teahouse, time seemed to freeze. Teahouse is an old wooden frame structure, with uneven beams, cement floor, gray-black bricks, shiny square tables, benches, blue-and-white tea bowls, tin kettles and noisy radios, which suddenly pull people back to 31 years ago. This teahouse with heavy urban color was originally the staff canteen of Huangjueping Transportation Co., Ltd., but it was changed into a teahouse in 1987 and named "Traffic Teahouse". For twenty years, the first pot of hot water was boiled by oneself every morning. Chatting over a bowl of tea has nothing to do with other things, only the years. This teahouse has become a part of the life of Huangjueping people. In 2115, the transportation company decided not to run the teahouse and wanted to close it. Professor Chuanmei Chen Anjian, who often came to the teahouse to paint and sketch, was reluctant to part with it, so he invested more than 211,111 yuan to keep the old teahouse. As time goes by, Aunt She, who runs the traffic teahouse, stays in the store every day. She said that Professor Chen has only paid the rent, maintenance and other expenses of the teahouse for the past 13 years, and all the income of the teahouse is not a penny. "He wants to keep his memory, I want to keep the tea customers, and everyone wants to keep something." In recent years, more and more people know about this old teahouse, and many crews also come here to shoot. Xiaoqi recommends that you come here to drink a bowl of tea for a few dollars and taste the taste left by the years.

After leaving the teahouse, Xiaoqi wants to say a few more words. Xiaoqi has always been interested in the culture of the Republic of China. The Republic of China is an era of great masters, and Chongqing has many memories about the Republic of China. If you have the same hobbies as Xiaoqi, I recommend that you visit several buildings of the Republic of China when you have time. The first one is the Guiyuan Garden in Chongqing, which used to be Zhang Zhizhong's residence. During the negotiations in Chongqing in August, 1945, Zhang Zhizhong took this place as the place where Mao Zedong worked and received visitors during his stay in Chongqing, and the later "October 11th Agreement" was also signed here. The second place is No.51 Zengjiayan, Chongqing, which was once the most closely watched place by the military secret agents. Because it is the office of the Eighth Route Army in Chongqing, Zhou Enlai lived here during his stay in Chongqing, so it is also called "Zhou Mansion". In addition, there is the former site of Xinhua Daily, Mr. Lao She's former residence in Chongqing and Mr. Liang Shiqiu's only former residence in mainland China, "Yashe". His collection of food essays "Yashe Tan Chi" not only makes people see the food, but also makes people see the emotions.

That's enough about the strategy in Chongqing. If you have time to stay for a few more days, you can also go to Dazu Stone Carvings, Wulong fairy mountain, Tiankeng Sancha and Wujiang Gallery around Chongqing ...

Xiaoqi is waiting for you to come back and share more strategies for Yangtze River cruise ships with you.