Watch the food documentary "tongue on the safety of 2", which introduces the hot pot is also Chongqing hot pot. Watch another food documentary "Sichuan flavor". When it comes to hot pot, the first thing that is introduced is the origin of hot pot from Chongqing dock. Boatmen on the docks in Chongqing invented the nine-compartment hot pot, which has evolved from the simplest food for the common people to the representative of Chongqing.
It can also be seen from the service that Chongqing people prefer to do it casually. Even if their service is the same as long as you have eaten, you know that if it is not the guest's request, the waiter will not take the initiative to serve the food you can feel that the whole process of eating is very casual Sichuan hot pot is very sophisticated. There are ordinary rooms and private rooms, even the working clothes are the same, and there are special clothing sets. After eating, they will send chewing gum, pay attention to the exquisite and thoughtful service, and the dipping sauce is also different. Sichuan hot pot dipping sauce single, only the original soup, greens and dried vegetables, while Chongqing hot pot usually only put sesame oil and garlic paste.
Chongqing hot pot, a kind of butter hot pot, has a very strong flavor. The locals call it "old hot pot", which is why many Chongqing hot pot restaurants have the name "old hot pot" written on their signboards. Because of the butter base, the flavor of Chongqing hot pot is marijuana, with a lingering aftertaste. Combined with freshly boiled water, it's amazing and unforgettable.
Summary; although Sichuan hot pot and Chongqing hot pot are both known for their spicy flavor, but it is as if the taste of hot pot is always floating in the air of the southwest, because there is such delicious food, nourishing countless Sichuan people, and attracting people's taste buds at times, so even if the Chongqing hot pot is redder than the Sichuan hot pot, they are both among the best hot pot in China.