Cold pot kebabs and lollipop chicken are so famous that even if you're not from Sichuan, you've heard of them before. The same is the Sichuan specialties, always thought that cold pot skewers and stick chicken have the same thing. After all, they can not see at a glance particularly big difference, and the name is so like, pronunciation is also close, it will not be too difficult to misunderstand that is because of the different regions of the saying is not the same as the "compulsion" caused by the two kinds of specialties, after all, a lot of places in China due to the hometown of the language has also produced a similar situation.
In fact, the cold pot skewers and the stick chicken are two different items, and it is not that the name is different, from the name can be seen their differences. The "bowl" of "cold pot kebabs" refers to a clay pot, which was used to contain chicken breasts at the beginning of this specialty snack, hence the name "cold pot kebabs".
The chicken on a stick is cooked chicken breast meat with a wooden stick to beat loose, so called "stick chicken". Obviously, these special snacks in the name, but also from the production of characteristics to take, read some like a coincidence.
And their ingredients are actually very different. Stick chicken with a rice stick to hit the chicken breast, the point of focus depends on the chicken. Cold pot skewers are more concerned with the "bowl", the more common cold pot skewers are not only chicken breast meat, but also a variety of fruits. Special seasonings are put into the pots and various dishes are infiltrated into them, so that when you eat cold pot kebabs, you can also eat a variety of dishes.
Also a Sichuan specialty, it is sure to uphold the usual spicy traditional style. Although it is also dominated by spicy hot, but the flavor of these snacks is different. Stick chicken as a cold dish, savory and spicy as prominent. While the cold pot skewers often connected into a string, directly to eat, spicy as the dominant, also has a green pepper flavor. Therefore, compared to stick chicken, cold pot skewers have more possibilities.
Cold pot skewers and stick chicken is not the same thing? Just thought it was called by a different name, originally so different. And cold pot skewers are often confused with skewers hot pot, you understand what is the difference between the two of them?