According to the statistics of Chongqing Municipal Commission of Commerce, there are nearly 30,000 hot pot restaurants in Chongqing. There are more than 600,000 employees in the hot pot industry. The output value of the industrial chain is close to 50 billion. There is a hot pot restaurant every 200 meters at most in the main city. It is easier to find hot pot in Chongqing than to find ATM. Seventy percent of the hairy belly in the world is eaten by Chongqing people in hot pot.
Chongqing holds a hot pot food festival every year, and can eat more than 20 tons of hairy belly a day. Top 50 hot pots are selected every year, and there are professional hot pot associations.
What is the first thing for Chongqing people from other places to return to Chongqing? Needless to say, serve the whole hot pot first. During the epidemic, many friends said, "If I had known that I couldn't eat hot pot for a long time, my son wouldn't eat it every day before the Spring Festival, so I was full and went to eat hot pot restaurant."
After Chongqing resumed work, the vice mayor went to the hot pot to eat hot pot as an ordinary citizen. Cheer up the catering industry and revive consumers' confidence in the catering industry. Chongqing foodies also walked into the hot pot restaurant with a dry heart.
Chongqing hot pot restaurant is divided into off-season and peak season, and the hotter the business, the better the business. Bare-chested, burned, drunk, chopping wood. This is the honest, frank and generous Chongqing character.
What Chongqing people like best is the traditional old hotpot. The difference between the old chafing dish and the new chafing dish is that the old chafing dish has a stronger flavor, and a lot of butter and pepper are used to enhance the flavor, while the new chafing dish uses less butter and spices to enhance the flavor. There is no broth at the bottom of the old hotpot. Traditionally, adding old shadow tea has the effect of clearing away heat and reducing fire. Therefore, all the teas in good hotpot restaurants are old shade teas.
Old silver tea is actually a kind of leaf.
The dishes with the highest click-through rate in Chongqing hot pot are beef omasum, duck intestines and crispy pork. Hot pot with cold beer, don't ask how Chongqing people's stomachs can stand it. Anyway, this is how Chongqing people eat.
As a Chongqing person, if you don't eat hot pot once in a while, you will feel that there is a very important thing that others have not done. The biggest compromise made by Chongqing people is: OK, order a mandarin duck pot.