The difference between hot pot base and skewer is mainly in the amount of soup added to the different only. Hot pot base to add more soup to facilitate the ingredients hot cooked, skewers to join the soup is very little, some boiled into a dry paste can be, or boiled into powder sprinkled on top of the ingredients. At the same time, hot pot soup can be divided into two kinds of soup and broth, different flavors around the world, the use of the base material is also very different. Besides, since ancient times on the food is not a fixed method of saying, exactly which base material, completely according to the local taste. China for thousands of years the formation of the East sweet and spicy North Salty South light taste and the local climate and soil, and now a lot of mobile population, a variety of tastes intertwined together, there is a kind of hard to adjust the feeling called the mouth of the crowd. Continuous exploration and innovation, modulation of the local characteristics of the base, is the hard way.