The name of the spicy hot pot comes from Sichuan. But according to Changsha old man said, Changsha's spicy hot, its core is still a "Changsha heart". In those days, the old streets of Changsha often sold pig's feet, dried orchids, dried triangular seeds, oil tofu, a steam bowl on the coal stove cooking, which put star anise, peppercorns and even red dried chili peppers, sprinkled with chopped green onions. In fact, and today's spicy hot pot still has some kind of close. At least spicy hot Changsha city in the old days in the kind of cooking steam bowl of winter pig's feet, tube bone, orchid dry son of the essence of the whole absorbed and went, and absorbed a lot of Sichuan spicy hot elements, of course, no longer put the Sichuan pepper. But in the past, the orchid dry son is the flavor of the dry son made more delicious, and now it is a clear oil tofu orchid dry son.

Changsha spicy hot pot everywhere, to Yanshan Street spicy hot pot is the most famous. And the most popular hot pot business is still in many small stores near the university, steaming pot floating in a layer of chili oil, inside the cooking tender sweet potato flour, next to the bamboo skewers of yellow throat and goose intestines, green lettuce tips, white bamboo shoots, pork ribs, loach, beans wrapped in coriander, and so on. All are a few cents a string, resting in the basin, you can choose. A very small capitalist beauty love to eat spicy hot, often invited me to eat, and then asked me to invite her to eat "foreign chop cake", she often said that a Changsha girl like Changsha's spicy hot, to be enough numb, but can not be numb; to be spicy, but can not be played shrewdly; to be hot, but can not be hot hands. She is an authentic Changsha girl, but very hot hand.