The north, the vast north, if northerners' impression of the south stays in continuous rain and birds' songs that are completely incomprehensible, they especially like to eat sweet and spicy impressions. Then southerners' impression of northerners is dry, and they can't fully understand the poem "Spring rain is as expensive as oil", which means that northerners especially like salty food, especially meat. This is also reflected in the eating habits of northerners. For example, a hot pot that crosses the north-south boundary.

If vegetables are the protagonist of southerners' hot pot, then meat is the protagonist of northerners' hot pot. For example, dog meat hot pot and sauerkraut white meat hot pot in Northeast China, and mutton hot pot in Inner Mongolia is one of them.

Dog meat hotpot is a northeast dish. Ingredients: dog meat. Taste: slightly spicy, red in color and sauce, rich in flavor, soft and tender dog meat, salty and slightly spicy. Dog meat hot pot is mainly made of dog meat, and the cooking skills of dog meat hot pot are mainly hot pot, which tastes salty and fresh. Hot pot meat is not greasy, thin but not firewood, and the soup is fresh and refreshing and nutritious. The color is red, the flavor is rich, and the dog meat is soft and tender, salty and slightly spicy.

Besides dog meat and hot pot, hot pot with pickled cabbage and white meat is also a very popular food in Northeast China. Every winter comes, northerners have the habit of collecting cabbage. They bought it ton by ton, which shocked the southerners who bought it one by one. The sauerkraut they made became their winter delicacy. White meat with sauerkraut is one of them.

Sauerkraut and white meat hot pot is a hot pot with sauerkraut and pork belly as the main ingredients. The ingredients are crabs and vermicelli, and the seasoning is marinated shrimp oil. It is made by cooking. Traditional Manchu dishes in Northeast China. Sauerkraut is made of Chinese cabbage, which is slightly sour and refreshing. It can be used as dumpling stuffing or hot pot. Northeast hot pot with sauerkraut and white meat is also a copper-charcoal hot pot, and the bottom of the pot is made of good bone soup. Shredded sauerkraut is cooked in a pot, and half-cooked white meat slices are eaten in a pot. Sauerkraut is neutral, fat but not greasy, which can best reflect the tender side of pork.

In the north, in addition to the famous hot pot in these areas, we have to mention the hot pot in Inner Mongolia. There are endless grasslands in Inner Mongolia, and cattle and sheep flock in droves. It is a scene of "the sky is grey, the wild is vast, the wind and grass are low, and the cattle and sheep are low". Beef and mutton have become an indispensable delicacy in their diet. Compared with other places in the north, Inner Mongolia people are much richer in instant-boiled mutton, maybe nothing, but mutton is well managed.

Eating hot pot, southerners' acceptance of spicy food varies greatly, but the northern hot pot is also intoxicating.