1, Chongqing hotpot
Speaking of Chongqing cuisine, the first thing that comes to mind is hot pot, which represents the characteristics of Chongqing food culture. Hot pot restaurants on the street are always full at night, whether in hot summer or cold winter. As long as you take to the streets, you can see all kinds of hot pot restaurants with pavements and signs all over the streets. By the end of 15, there were more than 20,000 hot pot restaurants in Chongqing. Chongqing is the birthplace of hot pot and is known as the "city of hot pot".
2. Chongqing Xiao noodles
There is another kind of food in Chongqing that is more popular and close to the people than hot pot, that is, Chongqing noodles, which are all over the streets and bustling business districts. Chongqing Xiao noodles is an all-round dish, which can be used as breakfast, lunch and snacks. The essence of delicious Chongqing noodles lies in seasoning, which is the soul of noodles. In some shops, Chongqing noodles have as many as 14 kinds of seasonings. China on the Tip of the Tongue vividly describes the color and flavor of Chongqing noodles, which makes people drool "straight at thousands of feet".
3. Hot and sour rice noodles
Hot and sour powder is a traditional snack in Chongqing and has always been one of Chongqing people's favorites. It has been deeply loved by Chongqing people for a long time. Its characteristics are "hemp, spicy, fresh, fragrant, sour and not greasy" and it is known as "the best powder in the world". Its main powder is made of sweet potato and pea starch, and then it is made by farmers by traditional manual leakage. The best hot and sour powder in Chongqing is Jie Fangbei Haochi Street-delicious again. There is a long queue for delicious hot and sour powder every day.
4. Chuanchuanxiang
Chuanchuanxiang is similar to hot pot, and it comes down in one continuous line with hot pot. Compared with hot pot, chuanchuanxiang is more popular and close to the people. You can eat more string incense. In the street at night, three or five friends sat around the fire, cooking a lot of bamboo sticks in the pot, drinking beer, and placing the dragon gate array of the old cellar, waiting for the strings in the pot to ripen slowly. After a long-term expectation, small pieces of food wrapped in spices fell into the mouth. That smells delicious.
5. Wanzhou grilled fish
Wanzhou grilled fish is to cut the fish clean, put it flat in an iron clip, roast it on the stove with charcoal fire, put it in a special iron plate, pour the secret ingredients made by various stores, and put on refreshing dishes such as celery and bean sprouts. The umami flavor, spicy or pickled pepper flavor, which is tender in the outside, can be described as appropriate in Chongqing's words. I heard from the older generation that the authentic grilled fish is Wuxi grilled fish, and Wanzhou people learned it from Wuxi.
6. Qianjiang chicken offal
Qianjiang Chicken Grocery Store and Qianjiang Ancient Town Chicken Grocery Store can be seen everywhere in the main urban areas of Chongqing and Chengdu. Qianjiang Chicken Miscellaneous Store adopts Tujia cooking method, with chicken intestines, chicken livers, chicken hearts and other chicken offal as raw materials, sliced chicken, supplemented by potato pieces, pickled peppers and fresh onions. Spicy and delicious.
7. Bishan Rabbit and Laifeng Fish
Bishan is not far from the main city of Chongqing. There are two kinds of delicious food in Bishan. One is Laifeng Fish, the originator of "Jianghu cuisine" in Chongqing, and the other is Bishan Rabbit.
8. Nanshan spring chicken
There are two mountains to see in Chongqing, one is Nanshan and the other is Gele Mountain. There are two most famous places in Nanshan. One is standing on a tree (this is a place name! ) look at the night view of the city; The other is spring chicken on the mountain, a "spicy, delicious and tender" dish. Chicken male, slaughtered, washed, cut into small pieces, sprinkled with salt and Jiang Mo, and fried with 80% hot 1 kg rapeseed. After a few minutes, pour out some vegetable oil, add a certain proportion of spring water and more than a dozen seasonings such as pepper, dried pepper, garlic, lobster sauce and rock sugar, and continue to stew for about 20 minutes.
9, Mao
Maoxuewang is a special dish in Chongqing, and it is one of the originators of Chongqing cuisine and Jianghu cuisine. Maoxuewang takes duck blood as the main ingredient, cooking skills are mainly cooking, and the taste is spicy. Fresh blood from the kitchen, bright red soup, hot oil poured on the dried Chili sections and peppers, making a squeaky sound and overflowing with fragrance; Have a taste of Maoxuewang, which is hot and delicious. The temperature just highlights the two flavors of hemp and spicy, and the taste is heavy and appetizing.
10, Geleshan spicy chicken
The spicy chicken on Gele Mountain is as famous as the White Mansion in Zhazidong, a red relic at the foot of the mountain. But it's not as big as the spring chicken, and it's all meat, so the spicy chicken has to find the chicken slowly from the pepper. There are not many spicy chicken shops in Geleshan, but the one that has been standing still is having fun in the forest at the top of 300 stairs.