Chuanchuanxiang includes beef, chicken, diced beef, crucian carp, squid, quail eggs, beef tripe, yellow throat, meatballs, ham sausage, gizzard, crab roe, dried bean curd, bean curd skin, bean tendons, potatoes, taro, green bamboo shoots, Chinese cabbage, fungus, mushrooms, pea tips, and dried bean curd.

String string is a special snack that strings fresh food with a stick and then cooks it in a pot with secret soup. Chuanchuanxiang is actually another form of hot pot, so people often call it a small hot pot. The origin of the name "Chuanchuanxiang" is because it is a snack that skewers various dishes with bamboo sticks and puts them in a hot pot to rinse and eat. "Chuanchuanxiang" originated in the mid-1980s. In order to make a living, some unemployed people in Chengdu set up stalls near some busy places, such as shopping malls, theaters and video halls.