As a native of Chongqing, we have always recommended the old-school hot pot (the essential difference between the old-school hot pot and the new-school hot pot is that, with or without spices. The old school hot pot advocates not to add spices, relying on the quality of various ingredients and ratios, fire to simmer the flavor, the new school of hot pot advocates adding spices to simmer, will add strawberry, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, meat buckle and other more than 20 kinds of spices, with spices to match the aroma of the hot pot).
Referring to the experience of the netizen on Zhihu, "my experience, than hot pot base material is good, to see the hot vegetables hot to the end of the hot is not good, and there is no butter flavor (non-spice flavor), authentic Chongqing hot pot and then eat the body after the hot pot flavor, but will soon dissipate, if the sun sun can not be sunned off the taste of the new school of hot pot, which is a large number of spices, I do not recommend it. I don't recommend it. There are also some hot pot base, hot vegetables in front of the still make do, more eat a while on the flavor, eat the soup base will feel a little soupy (no oil) "
You can choose more kinds of hot pot base, and then look at the ingredient list, usually with the difference between spices and no spices, try to see if you like that kind of flavor.
I would recommend trying the Red Nine Nine hot pot base. It's one of my favorites after going all the way from various hot pot sauces. One is not added spices, the other is the material used to spare (the judgment of this you cook a few more hot pot will know). It's delicious and doesn't get hot. It is some places are not good to buy, in Chongqing supermarkets are not sold. The good thing is that now there is a flagship store online, basically in the flagship store to buy.
No comparison, no right to speak, so good themselves to several famous hot pot base are sold back, each ate once, you will know that the most delicious. That's how I do it!