Yellow throat comes from the large blood vessels of domestic animals such as pigs and cows, usually the aorta, also known as the heart tube, often misunderstood as the esophagus or trachea, and is divided into hairy yellow throat and fresh yellow throat in hot pot dishes, where an important feature is crispness.

Yellow throat is not only used in hot pot, but also made into wood ear fried yellow throat. In addition, in Guizhou cuisine, there is Gongbao yellow throat dish. Although yellow throat has the word throat, it actually has nothing to do with the throat. The scientific name for yellow throat is aortic arch, which is the large arterial vessels coming out of the ventricles. The arterial vessels coming out of the left ventricle are thicker and the arterial vessels coming out of the right ventricle are thinner, which can be used to cook with yellow throat.