Zigong Fresh Pot Rabbit is a specialty delicacy of Zigong City, Sichuan Province. The key to fresh pot rabbit is that it is tender but not sloppy, slippery but not sticky, and the meat is firm, plump and elastic, reflecting the fresh tension of life. The spicy, thick and rich flavor allows the original flavor of rabbit meat to be revealed, and the aftertaste is pure and long, without any hint of grassiness.
Zigong people love to eat rabbits, and Zigong people call rabbits "rabbits". Rabbits can be cooked in various ways in Zigong people's kitchens, such as tangerine peel rabbit, fresh pot Rabbit, barbecue rabbit, shredded rabbit, cold rabbit. Outsiders from Zigong will definitely taste Zigong rabbit. Zigong people will also bring finished rabbit with them when they go to other places. It seems that if you don’t eat rabbit for three days, you will miss it. .
Fresh pot rabbit is one of the most distinctive dishes in Zigong. It is characterized by "fresh, fragrant, tender, smooth and spicy", full meat, rich juice, smooth entrance, tender and stale. As a representative of Zigong Salt Gang's food culture, it is extremely delicious and fragrant! The spiciness of Zigong cuisine lingers in your mouth, making you pick up your chopsticks and eat it fiercely, sighing but unable to stop. Rabbit meat is quite difficult to cook. Zigong Fresh Pot Rabbit really makes the rabbit meat numb, spicy, fresh, fragrant, tender and smooth, which is unparalleled!
In 2005, fresh pot rabbit entered the market with its distinctive characteristics of "fresh, fragrant, tender, smooth and spicy", overtaking the once popular methods of rabbit meat such as Bishan rabbit and shredded rabbit. Perfectly combining the Zigong people's requirements for eating rabbits and eating spicy food, after nearly 10 years of development, from Huixing Road to the eastern section of Huidong Road, from Xueyuan Street to Dagao, it can be said that rabbit meat has become the current Zigong catering market. It is a delicacy with the most specialty dishes stores and the widest range. Within less than 200 meters of the eastern section of Huidong Road, there are four or five stores specializing in fresh pot rabbits, and every store is packed during the dinner rush hour.