I said, I want to eat hot pot. You said: Summer is here, what hot pot do you want to eat?

In fact, for a native of Sichuan, there is no season that is not suitable for eating hot pot all year round.

Hot pot is an appetizer. When you feel that life is boring, hot pot is the best seasoning, which stimulates your taste buds, reaches your stomach through the esophagus and makes you feel refreshed.

Of course, it also belongs to the healing system. When you feel depressed and depressed, you might as well walk into a hot pot restaurant. It is not bitter, but it is a good medicine. Heal your empty belly and light up your yellow heart.

watching the boiling red soup roll, you will feel a kind of happiness. To experience this feeling in YOLO is to experience a life in YOLO.

In Sichuan, both the food city and the residents' hotel area are flooded with hot pot restaurants. There are all kinds of shops with different names. Those who order dishes and rinse the pot are called shabu shabu shabu, those who cook them with bamboo sticks are called strings, those who cook them directly are called maocai, those who don't have soup are called griddles, and Chongqing people like to call them old hot pots. However, they never leave the main line of the pot, and they have to cook them with fire before they can eat them, so they are simply called hot pots.

You don't have to worry about too many peers, and the competition is so fierce that you don't have any friends. Even if there are few Chinese restaurants nearby, there are still long queues outside these hot pot restaurants. The bartender in the hot pot restaurant always couldn't find a chance to take a break, but the shop owner was happy.

Generally, the prices of hot pot restaurants are moderate, and many stores even engage in various people-friendly activities. Staple food is free, drinks are half price, soup base is free of charge, etc., to attract the taste buds of the public.

strangely enough, you really have to go to a hot pot restaurant to feel the feeling of eating hot pot. As a die-hard fan of hot pot, I often go to buy some hot pot bottom materials and cook them myself at home, learn from the appearance of the store, slowly cook soup, and then cook my favorite dishes. But no matter how you cook it or eat it, you can't toss out the lively scene.

just like our life, we don't support discounts, and we can't make detours. If you want to be lazy, life will definitely report you with a greatly discounted quality experience.

to talk about hot pot, we must first talk about the soup base. No matter what kind of hot pot you walk into, whether it's high-decorated or roadside food stalls, expensive or cheap, ordering or self-help, as soon as you enter the store, Xiao Er first asks you: What kind of pot does the guest officer want? This pot refers to the soup base. Generally, there are only three kinds of pots: clear soup pot, red soup pot and mandarin duck pot. There is no need to explain the clear red soup, and most people in Yuanyang pots know that clear red soup coexists, and each soup is half-matched. Yuanyang, of course, should be paired and matched in size.

Actually, it's not. Hotpots in most areas are really set like this. Take care of all tastes. It doesn't matter whether they are spicy or not. In Sichuan, the two mandarin ducks in Qinghongtang don't look so well matched. A big pot of soup came up, almost full of spicy soup, with a small area in the middle, and a little clear soup, the proportion of clear red mandarin ducks was one to six. For Sichuanese, this ratio is enough.

For me, eating hot pot without red soup is like living an ordinary life without hot spots.

outside Sichuan, I want the hottest red soup. I didn't feel the hottest until I finished eating. In fact, it wasn't very spicy, but it was a little salty at best. If I were in Sichuan, I would still order red soup, but I changed it to slightly spicy or medium spicy. Of course, different stores will have different challenges to taste buds, depending on the situation.

most people will order a Yuanyang pot when they eat hot pot, usually to take care of their peers, which may not be suitable for spicy food. Hot pot, almost no one goes to eat alone. In most cases, it is a family, even a group of people, and at least two people. It seems that there is a law that one person is not allowed to enter the hot pot restaurant. However, we can't always find another person to accompany us when we want to eat hot pot. So what should we do?

Sichuanese's culture of eating can be described as the form of eating. A person can't eat hot pot. No, we invented a hot pot specially cooked for one person. Therefore, something called "maocai" came out. Yes, you are right. maocai is a hot pot for one person, and of course, hot pot has naturally become a maocai for a group of people.

If you happen to be alone in a very cold winter, don't hesitate to order a bowl of maocai to warm your stomach, your heart, this winter and your life.

A pot of red soup is served. There are also various cooking pots, including round ones, square ones and even oval ones. There are stainless steel pots, copper pots, casseroles, large pots for a group of people and small pots for only one person.

the contents of soup are different, some are bone soup, some are called chicken soup, and some are directly boiled water. No matter what kind of soup is mixed with red oil hot pot seasoning and cooked again, what kind of soup is similar, and most people can't distinguish it.

The biggest difference is the layer of oil. This oil is simple, that is, a layer of oil. We eat all kinds of oil, animal oil, vegetable oil, gutter oil and so on every day, which is normal and novel. It's not easy to say that the smell of oil smoke is so fluttering on you, you have to take three baths to restore your body fragrance when you go home, which is so capricious. Hot pot oil is the most common, but clear oil and butter are also mixed, and there are so-called old oil and new oil.

Chongqing hotpot, which is famous at home and abroad, is a kind of hotpot cooked with so-called old oil. Old oil, as its name implies, is oil that has been used for a long time and hot pot oil that has been reused over and over again. Legend has it that this kind of oil is more fragrant as it is cooked. The reason why Chongqing old hotpot is so fascinating is that the effort is all on this layer of oil.

I still shudder to think that all these soups have been eaten by others over and over again, and that after they have finished eating, they consciously or unconsciously pour the remaining sundries into the soups, or even throw paper towels to wipe their mouths and noses. These experiences were told to me by my friend in Chongqing a few years ago. While we were eating old hot pot, he shared with us the mystery that all Chongqing people know everything and are willing to enjoy it.

at first, you have to wait patiently, and the soup base covered with red oil will gradually heat up in the heat of the blazing flame. You have been commenting on the calm noodle soup, but nothing has happened. You are beginning to feel a little anxious. A desire always affects you and you can't help scratching the flame of the gas stove. In fact, at this time, the surface of the calm red oil layer has begun to murmur, it is like wearing a coat, so that you can't easily see the gradual change process inside it. When the time is right, break through this skin and the whole soup pot begins to churn.

I have been staring straight around the table for a long time, and I can finally start serving.

The dishes in hot pot are really colorful and full of wonders. Only unexpected, there is no point. No matter whether it is birds or animals, no part will be wasted when you go to a hot pot restaurant. Chicken intestines and duck intestines are so common that even duck tongues can be cooked. As long as it is non-toxic and harmless food that does not know how to do it or how to eat it, it can be cooked in hot pot.

The dishes in hot pot don't look particular, however, there are many articles in the aspects of material selection, knife making, storage and preservation. Every step affects your taste. I don't sell hot pot professionally, I only pursue delicious enjoyment, so I won't discuss how to do it and how to pay attention to it for the time being.

But if you eat, you have to order. The dishes in hot pot are not only exquisite to make, but also exquisite to order and eat.

people who love meat can't order all the meat, which is not only greasy, but more importantly, getting angry. In fact, there is nothing cooked in the hot pot that doesn't get angry. It's just to balance the taste. What's more, it's not meat that tastes refreshing when cooked in a hot pot.

Of course, you can't order vegetarian dishes casually. First of all, you can't eat too much, otherwise eating too much will feel like wasting without eating. Green leafy vegetables are needed, but not too much. One serving is enough. If you really like to eat them, you can have at most two. Moreover, leafy vegetables are usually cooked at the end. If leafy vegetables are cooked at the beginning, not only the whole pot of oil will be sucked away by the leaves, but also the leafy vegetables covered with chili pepper oil are not so tasty.

But anyway, every time you eat hot pot, there are always a few must-order dishes, just like there are always a few must-order dishes in your life.

let's talk about tripe, which is my favorite all my life. If you don't order tripe when you go to a hot pot restaurant, this hot pot meal is tantamount to eating it for nothing. This kind of thing, tripe, is easy to cook, tastes fast and tastes crisp and delicious.

But, we are always silly and confused about tripe, hairy tripe and tripe. Let's have a little science here. This guy, Niu, is tall, and what's more, he has four stomachs. So the tripe you ordered at different tables is probably in different forms. It's not that the store wants to cheat you on purpose. In fact, they are all called tripe (please take out your mobile phone and ask Du Niang for details).

Just scalding tripe is also skillful. It needs to be cooked to make it full of fragrance, but it can't be scalded for too long. If it is scalded for too long, the meat will get old, and if you have bad teeth, you may not be able to bite. Of course, you won't be able to eat crispy taste. It is not easy to hold just the right balance. This is like talking about a love. If the relationship between two people is too familiar, they will lose their mystery. If the relationship is too combed, there will be no intimacy. Both sides can grasp the temperature of love to last long.

followed by duck intestines. When I was a child, when I killed chickens and ducks at home, intestines were basically thrown directly to cats. There is really nothing to eat, and it is not easy to clean up. Unexpectedly, in the hot pot restaurant, this kind of humble waste has actually become a dish. Wash the duck intestines, cut them open directly, put them on a plate, add one and put it in the soup pot for a few times, and the cut edge of the duck intestines will start to curl slightly and you can eat it. Yes, the world is delicious.

Although I have heard about how to eat this duck sausage in hot pot, as an impatient lazy person, I can't wait for a chopstick soup for several times before I can eat one, so I always put a lot of them together and cook them directly in the pot, and then take them out of the pot when I have enough time. Although I feel that I have thrown a big lump into it every time, I can only catch two or three. Where have all the others gone? It has not been announced yet. This way of eating continued until I walked into a hot pot restaurant again.

On that day, I tasted my favorite duck intestines as always. More or less, I feel that there is a kind of eye watching me, but the desire for food still masks all external influences. I fished and fished in the pot. I was wondering why I couldn't get it out when a strange man came over. Without saying anything, he directly picked up my chopsticks, picked up a duck sausage from the plate, rinsed it in the soup pot for a few times, and then put it in my bowl. He said slowly, Try it again.

I was so angry that I felt that he despised me for not eating duck intestines. But only a little self-cultivation made me hold back my anger and said to him with a smile, "handsome boy, I know how to eat, but I'm too lazy to burn one by one." I watched his expression change from calm to warm anger. I clearly read the words "You are obviously wasting your life" at the corner of his mouth, but he never said it. He dropped my chopsticks and walked straight away.

oddly enough, I tasted the duck intestines of his soup, and it really tasted different. I suddenly feel that all the duck intestines I ate in those years have gone down the drain. Since then, I have never cooked duck intestines in a big pot. Scald slowly, taste slowly, the taste of duck intestines is naturally different, and the taste of life is also different.

In the long journey of life, many times, we are just like eating duck intestines. Although we know how to eat it, we still can't taste the taste of life. Perhaps, occasionally, we need the advice of noble people or passers-by.

let's talk about meat rolls again. Actually, I'm not a professional about eating, and I don't belong to the kind of person who looks for snacks in the streets all day. It's just that every once in a while, the greedy bug will crawl out and erode my stomach, disturb my spirit and challenge my belief that I don't know. Just like the plates of meat rolls on the table, eating a meat roll is like defeating a greedy worm, which is a joy of victory.

those meatloafs are uniform, firm and upright, lying across the plate, just like rows of border guards, sticking to the pot of soup in the middle of the table and guarding the three views of people stimulating taste buds to drive away greedy insects.

ten years ago, I went to a buffet hotpot restaurant with a few friends. At that time, everyone was still a student, and their wallets were basically flat and a little shriveled. But still can't resist the temptation of hot pot. We decided to eat buffet hot pot, because no matter how much you eat, you only need to pay a fixed fee. So I really experienced and confirmed the legend of "holding the wall in and holding the wall out".

It was also in that buffet hotpot restaurant that I witnessed the whole process of meat rolls. Generally, the price of meatloaf will be more expensive. In the self-service hotpot restaurant, the boss came up with a strange trick to prevent people from cooking a lot of meatloaf and eating the store prematurely. Take a large piece of frozen meat, I don't know whether it is mutton, beef, pork or what kind of meat. Anyway, it is huge, almost as big as half a pig, and there is no fat arrangement, no skin and no bones.

Because the supply of meat rolls is slow and there are many people who like it, there is a shelf half a meter high in front of this large piece of frozen meat, and behind the shelf is a long queue, which twists and turns to form a long queue.

Master has a tool like a machete lying flat on a shelf. The flat-faced machete just moves back and forth. Every time it moves, a roll of meat is formed, and then it is pushed to the end plate. The plate is also relatively small, and about five or six rolls of meat are loaded into one plate. The person who takes the turn in line can take a plate away. If you want another plate, you have to queue up from the tip of the long dragon tail.

if it were now, I would definitely not like to join in that excitement. But at that time, I really felt that it was a rare food in heaven and earth. No matter how long the queue was, no matter how long it took, all the blood and sweat, annoyance and dryness would melt in that meatloaf.

Hotpot is a non-dish. It is not only the taste and feeling of soup and rinse dishes, but also the content of that bowl of small stained dishes is extremely exquisite.

in the north, most people like a condiment called sauce. Sesame sauce, peanut butter, soybean sauce, and all kinds of sauces, all of which are especially sweet. It's delicious to dip a little sauce in the dishes of hotpot. In the south, hot pot dipping sauce is mainly oil dish. In short, each has his own future and his own taste.

In Sichuan, where hot pot is everywhere, the dipping sauce of hot pot is varied and everything is available. As the saying goes, only you can't think of it, and I can't invent hot pot dipping sauce without it. In a hot pot restaurant, Xiao Er usually explains: Guest, the dipping sauce is ten meters ahead on your right. Then, consciously or unconsciously, you look in the direction he pointed out to you: it's magnificent, with an area of more than two square meters filled with all kinds of things called containers for the time being, and each container contains different seasonings, up to 2 to 3 kinds at most.

With so many kinds of seasonings, you are dazzled, and you can't start. If you haven't chosen dysthymia in this case, it proves that you are strong enough. For example, I am now: you can choose tens of millions, and I only take the old three: sesame oil, pepper and mashed garlic. Be sure to have enough mashed garlic, stir it in pepper powder and sesame oil, take a hot meat roll and soak it in this simple and fragrant dip. Just full of garlic