With the Spring Festival approaching, everyone is about to have the most important meal - New Year's Eve dinner.
Family sitting around the table, chatting about family life and enjoying a warm reunion is undoubtedly the happiest of the year. This year, we are advocating that we stay in the local area for New Year's Eve, and many of our friends are choosing to stay in Chongqing, so what should we choose for our New Year's Eve dinner?
Combined with the needs of different groups of people, but also focus on the ambience of the environment, after comprehensive consideration, Chongqing Yupin to provide you with some reference suggestions.
When it comes to hot pot, it's something that Chongqing people are very familiar with. However, is hot pot suitable for New Year's Eve dinner?
The hot pots here also include soup pots, with spicy, clear soup and mandarin ducks to choose from, and there are enough flavors to choose a good environment to eat while hot, the atmosphere will be very good.
China's hot pot
As a fast-rising brand in Chongqing's hot pot scene, with titles like "Black Pearl" and "Must Eat List," China's hot pot does have its own unique characteristics.
The big slices of waist and a 168 yuan tripe have also become Mr. Zhou's signatures. Their stores are widely distributed, so you can choose one near you, and because it's hotter, you should also consider booking in advance.
Price per person: 110 yuan, normally open during Chinese New Year (including New Year's Eve).
Wang Shaolong Hot Pot
This is a hot pot restaurant recommended to Yupin by a friend who hangs out in Shapingba all year round, and it's said to have been previously known by the straightforward name of Fatty Wang. Later, the name was changed to Wang Shaolong, after a unified store image packaging, but the taste is still as good as it was back then.
Wang Shaolong hot pot is also with the times, the introduction of Sichuan opera performances in the store, although some friends do not like, but such a lively scene, in fact, there is nothing wrong, especially the New Year's Eve dinner, lively to have the atmosphere.
Consumption per capita: 79 yuan, February 10-12 holiday, the rest of the time normal business.
Shou Chai Oven Roast Duck
Roast duck doesn't sound like something local to Chongqing, but Shou Chai Oven Roast Duck is indeed a local brand and has gained widespread recognition.
The restaurant uses a combination of roast duck and duck rack soup, so after eating the roast duck, you can swish all kinds of dishes in the soup pot, which is how we Chongqing people treat all meals as hot pots anyway. The sour and refreshing duck soup and the lingering aroma of the roast duck are perfect for both the elderly and children.
Price per person: 65 yuan, normally open during the Spring Festival (including New Year's Eve).
Lotus Roots
Another great invention of the Chongqing people, in Yupin's opinion, is this lotus root soup. Lotus root is the base, to which a variety of different meat ingredients can be added, with pork ribs and pig's feet being the most common, as well as fresh and preserved pork chops to choose from.
Similarly, after eating, it's back to shabu-shabu, a Chongqing specialty.
Price per person: 59 yuan, normally open during Chinese New Year (including New Year's Eve).
If you think hot pots and soup pots are a bit informal, it's best to return to the most traditional Chinese feasts.
Nine Heavens Rotating Restaurant
This restaurant, located in Jiefangbei, is one that many people must have heard of, and its most distinctive feature is that the restaurant rotates throughout the entire meal, allowing you to look down on Jiefangbei from the 29th floor above.
The restaurant specializes in Szechuan cuisine, but also incorporates the characteristics of many other cuisines to meet the public's different taste needs.
Cost per person: 109 yuan, open during the Spring Festival (including New Year's Eve).
Waipaqiao
Waipaqiao's name should be even louder than Jiuzhongtian. With such a friendly name, Grandma Bridge has really grown up with a generation of Chongqing people, just like Grandma.
Each Grandma Bridge restaurant has its own specialties, such as the one in Jiefangbei, Yuzhong District, which features the new Bayu culture and includes a variety of dining forms such as Chinese food, hot pots, and snacks, which will make everyone feel at home as one of the choices for New Year's Eve dinner.
Consumption per capita: 68 yuan, open normally during the Spring Festival (including New Year's Eve).
Xu Dingsheng
If you've been paying attention to the local restaurant market, you won't be unfamiliar with Xu Dingsheng. In recent years, Xudingsheng stores are almost everywhere, and with relatively low prices and good taste standards, captured the stomachs of many diners.
Comparatively speaking, Xudingsheng's overall environment is a bit less decorative, but at the same time its prices have been kept down. If you're looking for a more affordable option, then a New Year's Eve dinner at Xu Ding Sheng would be great.
Consumption per capita: 64 yuan. The restaurant is closed from the first to the third day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, and is open the rest of the year as normal, with different stores having different vacation times.
Hot pot and Chinese food should be able to come to mind for most people, but there are also many more distinctive meals in Chongqing. If you want your New Year's Eve dinner to be more unique, you can also consider the following recommendations.
Roasted lamb
Like roast duck, roasted lamb is not supposed to be a favorite of Chongqing people, but there are a lot of roasted lamb in Chongqing.
Roasted lamb in Chongqing is a roasted lamb with a lamb soup pot, just enough for the whole family to eat together, whether it is freshly roasted lamb or steaming hot soup pot, perfect for the atmosphere of the New Year. Different stores, roasted lamb varies quite a bit, try to choose the old store, after all, after the test of time.
Huangfeihong, summer to do crawfish, winter to sell roast lamb, not a moment to spare, such a store, you can try.
Consumption per capita: 119 yuan, normal business during the Spring Festival (including New Year's Eve), will be arranged according to the actual booking of business hours.
Roasted meat
Besides exotic species like roasted whole lamb, Chongqing has plenty of roasted meat to choose from for New Year's Eve dinner. Compared to other individually cooked dishes, barbecue is more substantial, with the food cooked from raw to well-done right in front of your eyes, and the sheer joy of eating meat.
Roasted meat is also divided into a variety of northeastern barbecue, Japanese barbecue, Korean barbecue, etc., you can choose according to personal taste. We recommend this Songdu clay oven barbecue, using the traditional clay oven charcoal barbecue, they say that the barbecue meat will be more flavorful. We especially recommend their cold noodles, even in winter to eat, it is also a thief, just can eat meat in the interval to ease the grease.
Consumption per capita: 88 yuan, closed at 20:00 on New Year's Eve, the rest of the time normal business.
Frog married shrimp & bungee dishes
Listen to the name, feel frog married shrimp do not know what, in fact, the boss used a harmonic terrier (deduct money), the correct should be frog rack shrimp, that is, in a pot of frogs on the basis of a pot of shrimp, the two do not interfere with each other, a time to eat the two flavors.
Consumption per capita: 107 yuan, New Year's Eve to the fourth day of the year is closed, the rest of the time normal business.
Additionally, a friend recommended the bungee dish to Yupin, which is said to be a more traditional and original jianghu dish than frog-married shrimp. The name sounds bluff and the main ingredients include frogs and eels. As for why it's called Bungee Cuisine, Yupin didn't inquire about the specific reason, perhaps it's used to describe the extreme sensation of the taste experience.
Consumption per capita: $105. The restaurant is closed on New Year's Eve and the first day of the month, and is open the rest of the year.
Both of the above are very distinctive approaches to Chongqing's Jianghu cuisine, with extreme flavors that can be very intuitively seen in the ingredients used in the dishes. At the same time, these two rivers and lakes dishes are relatively more heavy taste, may not be able to adapt to everyone, you can consider discretion.
At the same time, in order to take care of friends who stay in Chongqing for New Year's Eve, there are close to 300 food and beverage stores have launched a New Year's Eve dinner to home service, so if you don't want to go out, after all, it's warm at home, then consider a takeaway New Year's Eve dinner!