Hot pot, called "ancient style soup" in ancient times, was named after the food was put into boiling water and made a "splash" sound. It is one of the original delicacies in China, and it is also a kind of food suitable for all ages.

Hot pot generally refers to a cooking method in which a pot is used as a vessel, a pot is cooked with a heat source, and various foods are cooked with water or soup. At the same time, you can also refer to the pot used in this cooking method. It is characterized by cooking while eating, or the pot itself has the function of heat preservation. When eating, the food is still steaming and the soup is integrated.

There are similar dishes all over the world, but they are especially popular mainly in East Asia. Hot pot tastes hot, spicy and salty, oily but not greasy, suitable for mountain and river climate. Nowadays, it has developed into a mandarin duck pot, which is spicy and light, and has its own needs. Different soups and foods are added according to personal preferences, which is suitable for all ages and the best in winter.

Typical hot pot ingredients include all kinds of meat, seafood, vegetables, bean products, mushrooms, egg products, staple foods and so on. They are cooked in boiling water or at the bottom of special soup pots. Some ways of eating will be dipped in seasoning and eaten together.

A tableware made of metal, in which a pot and a stove are integrated. There is a charcoal fire in the stove, so that the pot soup often boils to cook and eat while cooking. It also refers to dishes cooked in hot pot.

The popular characteristics of hot pot catering are accepted and loved by consumers, especially the cold and dry weather in the northern region makes the hot pot market have great potential, and the management methods of hot pot types are constantly innovating. Chongqing hot pot, which is famous for its "spicy, spicy and hot", is a southern hot pot, a northern hot pot and a new hot pot represented by instant-boiled mutton.