It may have something to do with the origin, as well as the flavor. Chongqing and Chengdu are both famous and well known for their hot pots, but more people think that Chongqing hot pot is better. The two places of hot pot is essentially spicy hot pot, but Chengdu's is clear oil new school hot pot, Chongqing's is the butter old hot pot, the flavor can be better butter can not be ignored. Hot Pot (Hot Pot[1]), the ancient name of the "antique soup", because of the food into the boiling water issued by the "thud" sound and so named, it is China's original cuisine, a long history, is a kind of young and old food.
Typical hot pot ingredients include a variety of meats, seafood, vegetables, legumes, mushrooms and egg products, which are scalded in boiling water or a special soup base and eaten, and in some cases, dipped in seasonings.
According to the evidence, the wok dipper, a cultural relic from the Eastern Han Dynasty unearthed after the liberation of the country, is a hot pot. In the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi's poem "Ask Liu XIX" reads: "New grains of wine with green ants and a small fireplace with red clay. The sky is snowing in the evening, can I have a glass of wine?" The poem describes the scene of eating hot pot at that time. By the Song Dynasty, hot pot food in the folk has been common, the Southern Song Dynasty Lin Hong's "mountain home Qingsui" recipe, there are his friends with the introduction of eating hot pot. During the Yuan Dynasty, hot pot was spread to Mongolia, where it was used to cook beef and mutton. To the Qing Dynasty, hot pot is not only prevalent in the folk, and has become a famous "palace dishes", the Qing Palace Imperial recipes on the "game hot pot", the ingredients are pheasant and other wild game.
The Qianlong Emperor ate hot pot as a fetish, he had many trips to Jiangnan, every place, are equipped with hot pot. According to legend, he was in the first month of the first year of the Jiaqing in the palace, "a thousand old man feast" seat *** on the hot pot more than 1550, invited to taste more than 5000 people, became the history of the largest hot pot feast.
After years of development, China's hot pot industry chain has taken shape. Sichuan, Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other places of agriculture and animal husbandry for the national hot pot catering market, the formation of chili peppers, peppercorns, mutton, sesame oil, sesame paste, vermicelli, solid alcohol, such as hot pot commonly used raw materials, seasonings, fuel production, processing and sales base.
If it is an awesome hot pot restaurant, you can smell the aroma of hot pot from a few meters away. Eating hot pot in Chongqing is a very leisurely and refreshing thing, no one will leave the table without a few hours, which makes the old hot pot with butter more and more fragrant, and the fragrance of peppercorns, chili peppers and many kinds of auxiliary materials in the pot base is completely stimulated.
Chengdu hot pot compared to Chongqing's hot pot and came to appear to be much more clear soup, in fact, more places are also reflected in the differences in local culture, a place a flavor , each place to taste the delicious atmosphere is not the same, the actual feeling of the effect is different, you can go to the Chongqing Shancheng Yanzi hot pot to try to know.