Chengdu East Gate Recommendations
Xiao County Fresh Mutton Soup
Per capita: 64 yuan
Address: No. 16, Sanguantang Street
Featured: Xiaoxian Fresh Mutton Soup is 80 yuan a catty. In addition to clear soup, there is also a red soup pot. The owner emphasizes that this year's selection of 8-10 months old "youthful sheep", meat is fat but not greasy. Xiao County has an exclusive specialty called Xian Xian Jie Jie. The raw material is the only section of sheep intestines about 10cm long, first marinated and then deep-fried. The taste is tender and not greasy, and the flavor is so good that it explodes.
Lai's Lamb Soup
Per capita: 57 yuan
Address: Shuwa North First Street
Features: As an old store that has been open for more than 10 years, the place is relatively small, but the lamb is fresh. The original high soup mutton soup pot, not shy and not greasy, has a pure sweet flavor. Steamed lamb and lamb sausage are also not-to-be-missed entrees.
Qin Chuan No. 1.
Per capita: 60 yuan
Address: Longjun Street
Features: Said to be a century-old restaurant, it is known as "the myth of Chengdu's mutton soup scene". The soup is made in the traditional Chengdu style, without ginger or chili peppers. A small bowl of mutton soup, a small bowl of steamed rice, a small dish of pickles, Jianyang mutton soup, each with its own flavor. Let's savor them slowly.
Recommended in Chengdu's South Gate
Jianyang Mutton Soup
Per capita: 50 yuan
Address: No. 12, Zhongjie (across from the Seventh Hospital)
Specialties: mutton soup pots, mutton sausages, and cumin mutton chops all sell well. The owner says they're an old store that moved from Sanguantang three years ago, and the flavor is naturally pleasant. Prices are now 70 yuan a catty, and may rise to 80 yuan at the winter solstice.
Lou Beiping Old Beijing Shabu Shabu (Hongwasi Branch)
Per capita: 67 yuan
Address: B1F, Hyatt Regency New City, No. 9, South Section 1, First Ring Road
Features: Beiping Lou Old Beijing Shabu Shabu has opened a number of restaurants in Chengdu, and has relatively high online support. On the winter solstice, if you don't want to get together to eat Janyang mutton soup, you can eat Old Beijing shabu-shabu for a change of pace, surrounded by a copper stove, shabu-shabu dipped in sesame sauce kind of flavor is not on.
Dai Lamb Soup Pots
Per capita: 43 yuan
Address: Shuangliu Zhonghe Gourmet Street
Features: This restaurant has been open for many years, and the Zhonghe Lamb Alternative is super famous throughout Chengdu. The quality of lamb in this restaurant is really good and the prices are good too. Crispy lamb chops are recommended. They are crispy and flavorful.
Chengdu Ximen Recommendations
Wang Jian Laoshi Mutton Soup
Address: No. 17 and No. 28, Deixin South Street
Features: 13-year old mutton soup house. The owner promised to use Ningxia goats and local goats. The meat is absolutely good and the soup is delicious. This restaurant is not in Sanguantang, nor in Xiaoguanmiao, but has been open for 13 years in a "very low profile". Once this store opened, Deixin South Street almost became the third "mutton street" in Chengdu. At its peak, there were seven or eight stores on a small street of more than 100 meters. But now there are only three, and this one is a veteran.
Zhang_Laoqi Mutton Soup
Per capita: 43 yuan
Address: No. 28 and 27, Dexin South Street, Shuangnan
Features: This is another good mutton soup left on Dexin South Street. The owner is a fat man with a big belly. He cooks for himself. He doesn't wear a jacket even when the weather is cold, and he works in the kitchen with his bare suitcase. On the store sign, a photo of the owner polishing his trunk is the biggest publicity. Does the owner mean it's hot enough to strip naked after eating lamb soup?
Dongle Shabu Shabu
Per capita: 65 yuan
Address: 95 Xiao Nan Jie
Specialty: Luo Fei Yang, near the Wencheng overpass, is a Peking-style shabu shabu, which is still relatively authentic in Chengdu. The haggis is very distinctive, and the intestines and tripe in the soup pot are the cream of the crop, which the owner is generous enough to spare.
Recommendations for Chengdu's North Gate
Small Guanmiao Street: Currently, Chengdu's most famous mutton soup street is the L-shaped block connected to Lion Lane and Small Guanmiao Street. There are dozens of large and small mutton soup halls spread across these two streets, among which Dahua, Lao Li and Zuzhuan are the most famous, all of which have been open for more than 10 years.
Lao Li Tian Xia Di a mutton soup
Per capita: 60 yuan
Address: Qingyang District, Xiaoguan Temple Street
Features: Xiaoguan Temple's largest mutton soup, "the world's first soup," the storefront is simple and plain, the taste of mutton is true to its name. In addition to mutton and haggis, the fresh liver and tenderloin slices in this one are sliced extremely thin and cooked in the pot after a few scaldings, making them very tender and smooth in the mouth.
Dahua Mutton Hot Pot
Per capita: 63 yuan
Address: 57 Xiaoguanmiao Street
Features: Dahua first sold mutton pots in a red broth, which is similar to eating hot pot. The chef fried the bottom of the pot in red soup and then cooked the lamb. The plate can be eaten with sesame oil, original soup, fermented bean curd and millet chili.
No Night's Lamb Soup
Per capita: 60 yuan
Address: 122 Station North East Street
Features: there are many lamb soup pots on Northeast Street, all of which taste pretty much the same. Diners who don't expect to join the queues at Sanguantang and Xiaoguanmiao in winter can choose here. This "sleepless day" has been open for 89 years, and the owner recommends drinking his lamb soup while enjoying some home-cooked food, which is very suitable.