At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a female politician named Empress Dowager Cixi. You should have heard that she especially loved hot pot in her later years. Because the north was particularly cold, the imperial kitchen in the palace would think of ways to make hot pot with various flavors for her. Since then, China's hot pot has spread all over China. Seeing historical hot pot is also a delicious food in the hall, and we can see his nobility from his birth. So don't underestimate the grade of hot pot.
Nowadays, with the reform and opening up, people's living conditions are getting better and better, and their eating choices are increasing. Gradually, people will regard hot pot as a kind of poor consumption. Actually, it is not. There are plenty of high-end hot pots in first-tier cities, which are very common per capita, which is really unaffordable for ordinary people. Of course, there are also low-grade hot pots, which can be eaten for tens of dollars.
In fact, it's good to treat guests at home with hot pot, which makes them feel close. If your guests are rich, they are afraid of being looked down upon by others, and they want to look local, it is ok, depending on what ingredients you rinse, and to what extent you want to be luxurious. It is normal to rinse a hot pot for several thousand dollars, for example, rinse the dragon, the elephant mussel, the red hairy crab, the eastern star spot, the blue dragon, and the beef from Japan. Wait a minute. It's all about showing your local tyrants.
On the other hand. It's normal for you to entertain guests with hot pot. No one will say anything. It depends on what you put in the pot. If all you put in is cabbage, potatoes and carrots, I guess you want to say that your atmosphere is difficult, so things are dead. The key depends on how you use them. Hot pot will be used from the palace to the civilian family. The real problem is not the hot pot, but our ideas, which need to be changed. Make friends with your heart and your heart. It also depends on what your friends like to eat, and what dishes you give your friends.
Friends are happy when they eat together, and friends who really have a heart-to-heart relationship are happy when they eat pickles together. This is a true friend, and they don't care too much about what they eat. Eating with friends is just an introduction. Now who hasn't eaten? It is mainly through the introduction that everyone can get together to chat and talk about life and the future of Kan Kan. This is the theme.
There is another kind of friend who can bring benefits, so you need to do what you like. You should know what kind of food your friends like. You can't buy what you like, regardless of your friends' feelings. Because you are entertaining others, you should buy what your friends like. All the dishes in the hot pot are what everyone likes. How can you say that you are stingy? You chose all the dishes with your heart. Who can say anything else? So don't worry about hot pot. Go and find out what your friends like to eat.
In the countryside, my family has been inviting people to eat hot pot for several years, and no one has said that they are stingy, but they all have a good time.
Why? Because there are many people. You serve the same food, you haven't eaten half of it, and the front is cold. If something happens to be delayed, the food will be cold by the time it reaches the table. The guests didn't enjoy their meal, and the host family felt sorry for it.
Hot pot has no such problem. As long as you prepare rinse vegetables in advance, you can eat whatever you want then. There won't be too many dishes left, and the cooks don't have to stay in the kitchen all the time. Everyone can have a lively meal.
If you still feel humble, then work hard on soup and vegetables. For example, stew with pig bones is used as the soup base, and shrimp, fat beef, fish balls, sausages, beef offal, tender mutton and so on are used for rinsing vegetables. There is nothing wrong with using your own vegetables as long as they are fresh.
In fact, if you work hard on hot pot dishes, the cost is not less than that of cooking. If you can't prepare so much at once, two hard dishes, such as braised chicken, sweet and sour fish, or more side dishes with wine.
Seasoning can be served according to each other's preference. More wine. Everyone has a good meal. You have done the details in place, and everyone feels your sincerity. What's wrong with it?
If at this point, I still say that you are not well entertained, so don't be such a friend.
Hello, everyone ~ I'm Keiko, the food author, and I'm glad to answer this question.
First of all, if you can invite him to your home for dinner, it means that you have a certain emotional foundation, and you are no longer an ordinary friend, so as a friend, he certainly won't care what you do for him. After all, the feelings are there ~ ~
However, nothing is absolute. Some people will think that if you treat me like this when I come to your house, you must look down on me. In order to avoid this embarrassing thing. We'd better be well prepared to show our attention.
In Chongqing, we entertain friends who eat hot pot, so how can we look atmospheric? That is, prepare more ingredients. You can refer to the list of ingredients when I entertain my friends to eat hot pot.
List of ingredients:
Meat dishes: beef tripe, squid, yellow throat, lunch meat, duck intestines, beef rolls, mutton rolls, scallops, eel, crispy meat, etc.
Vegetarian dishes: Flammulina velutipes, Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, lotus root, vermicelli, etc.
Dessert: pumpkin pie (you can buy it in the supermarket and steam it.)
If there are many people, you can add some jiaozi, and it's right to prepare a little more weight. You'd rather leave a little, and don't fasten your belt. This is definitely a high-end atmosphere.
Hello, it's a great honor to take part in answering your questions.
It is very good to entertain friends and make hot pot in the countryside, so it won't make people feel stingy. Below I recommend the practice of hot pot.
1. Prepare side dishes. The side dishes must be rich, with meat and vegetables. For example, beef rolls, mutton rolls, prawns, seafood balls, duck intestines, tofu, tofu skin, mushrooms, Flammulina velutipes, Pleurotus ostreatus, lettuce, fried balls and so on. Or know friends' preferences and prepare dishes.
2. Stir-fry hot pot ingredients. Prepare onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, anise, add a spoonful of bean paste to stir-fry red oil, and then add a large piece of hot pot bottom material to continue frying. It is best to add water, sparerib soup or chicken soup after frying. After boiling, you can rinse vegetables.
3. Mix sesame sauce.
4. The spicy and delicious hot pot is made, and the hot pot is very lively and has an atmosphere for entertaining friends. I hope I can help you.
Since we said we were friends, why should friends care about these? What friends eat is not the quality of ingredients, but the atmosphere and mood.
Simply eating 100 yuan pickled fish with the cheapest beer with friends. Everyone can eat and laugh all night.
On the contrary, in some hotel banquets, some lovers are not necessarily happy when they eat thousands of dollars of delicious food at the hotel. I can't wait for the fake smile to end. Go back and find some pig friends and dog friends to eat the barbecue on the street. . .
I believe many men can understand this feeling.
In short, if there is no shortage of money, hot pot also has a lot of high-grade ingredients, seafood and the like.
If you don't have enough money at the end of the year, just eat casually. It's not a good friend for friends to mind these face problems. That's not what friends do.
It's really a bit monotonous to make a hot pot banquet alone. You can add another side dish, such as taking cucumbers, peanuts or other cold dishes! The whole is not monotonous, which makes him feel very dignified.
No. It's enough to eat hot pot in winter. It's enough to eat warm, have more varieties of dishes, control enough, control enough, and drink enough with wine. Friends don't care about each other, and those who care about saying that you are cheap are not true friends. Everyone has different criteria for choosing friends.
Eating hot pot is not cheap. Not stingy.
The key to cooking hot pot with prepared side dishes is that the dishes will not be cold. In winter, when the food is cold, there will be no appetite. Hot pot is different. And you can cook whatever you want. If there are people who drink, they are preparing some braised duck necks and waiting for braised dishes to be served in the store. Since we are friends, we don't care so much. It's most important to eat happily, and it's also important for the food to suit the taste.
The happiness of friends together has nothing to do with eating and drinking, and it will not make you lose face because of the simple food.
Let's get together for fun!
It is a good choice to eat hot pot together in cold weather, and it also solves the problem that it is difficult to adjust!
The landlord is afraid that his friends will feel stingy, so he can cook some fried chicken or steam some crabs, so that everyone can eat well without being misunderstood as stingy.
Of course, if a friend feels stingy, in fact, such a person can be removed from the list of friends in his heart!