Hot pot base spices are: star anise, cardamom, cinnamon, cumin, fennel and so on.
1, star anise: should be called aniseed, also known as fennel, dashi, August beads, which is a more familiar flavor of spices. It is characterized by aromatic smell, taste slightly sweet.
2, cardamom: also known as round cardamom, the market or the drugstore has written for the hundred knock, knocking the nut. Mouth taste of astringent flavor.
3, cinnamon: also known as cinnamon. Sweet and pungent flavor, strong aroma. Taste spicy, slightly sweet aftertaste.
4, cumin: also known as fennel, wire cabbage, Huaixiang, wild fennel. There is a special aromatic gas, widely used in braised, brine, spicy hot pot.
5, grasshopper: a ginger plant grasshopper fruit, taste the flavor strange, not good.