Old hotpot, i.e. hotpot made with old marinade oil, old base ingredients and old base soup using traditional handmade cooking techniques. Local Chongqing people believe that the old oil is the old brine and refined oil of Chongqing hotpot, so it is called old hotpot.

The old hot pot is mainly divided into two types of soy sauce and strong aroma, scoop a spoonful of butter red pot of oil, cooled for a minute or two that is congealed into a ball, which is the most traditional butter pot, Chongqing old base hot pot incense lies in the butter more, only then shabu shabu out of the dish is enough flavor. Chongqing old hot pot is usually based on fresh dishes, and diners who know how to eat will choose the day's fresh ingredients as their mainstay, while frozen dishes will be ordered less often.

Categories of hot pot:

1. Soups are light, while shabu-shabu is the mainstay, with dipping sauces playing an important role, such as shabu-shabu and Cantonese-style hot pots.

2. The ingredients in the pot are already cooked, such as fish head in casserole and mutton stove, where the fire is only used as insulation and to blanch the greens.

3, the third is the pot of material all cooked, even the green vegetables do not need to wear hot, the stove fire is completely used to keep warm, and the big pot of food is no different, such as the Buddha jumped over the wall, revival of the pot, such as the big pot of food in the way.?

4, hot pot listed in the season, about three or five friends or a family reunion, what you want to eat on what to buy, eat less meat, more vegetables, fish, dipping sauce do not mix too salty, accidentally salt is too much, not good for the heart. Eat hot pot is the most primitive practice, want to eat what you put what, how comfortable, but also the most fresh, no grease, for the modern healthy eating.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia for the above - Chongqing Old Hot Pot