The sixth episode of Season 2 of Tongue and Tsim Sha Tsui China was about hot pot.

As a food documentary that explores the relationship between Chinese people and food, Tongue and Tip of China Season 2 uses food as a window to read about China - through food, it allows people to recognize this ancient oriental country in a flavorful way. "One Side of the Water, One Side of the People", the movie will depict and perceive the cultural traditions, family concepts, life attitudes and homeland of the Chinese people by showing the multiple sides of people's daily life that are related to food. People harvest, preserve, cook and produce food, and in the process preserve and pass on the taste memories, food customs, cultural patterns and family emotions that food carries. The movie***8 episodes tell the story of Chinese food from seven perspectives: seasonal, footsteps, heartfelt, homemade, secret, meeting, and three meals, and the eighth episode reveals the story behind the filming of "The Tip of the Tongue".

Hotpot Eating

Hotpot eating method is different from Chinese food, not the dishes that have been cooked on the table can be eaten; but some of the semi-finished dishes to the table, by their own hand operation (cooking), since the hot self-eating; the hot (cooking) food hot dishes in the hands of the hands of the diners. Therefore, diners must understand how to eat hot pot in order to eat well.

1, hot, cooked in the pot.

The key is: first of all, to distinguish between various materials, not all kinds of materials are hot food. Generally speaking, the texture of the tender and crisp, instantly cooked ingredients shabu shabu: that is, the ingredients clip good for hot (shabu shabu) food, such as duck intestines, sliced cashews, sliced liver, pea shoots, spinach, etc.; and the texture of the texture of the slightly dense, instantly not easy to cook, to be more hot for a while, such as maw, fungi, liver, sliced beef, etc.; second, we must observe the soup and brine change when the soup and brine boiling, rolling, and the soup and brine on the grease is sufficient, hot food taste and heat preservation; again, to control the fire, too much fire and too much heat, and the heat is too much. To control the fire, the fire is too much, the food is old, the fire is not, it is raw; fourth, hot food must be clamped firmly, or fall into the pot, it is easy to cook old, boiled.

2, boiled: that is, the ingredients into the soup cooked.

The key is: first of all, to choose the ingredients can be boiled, such as scallops, meatballs, mushrooms, etc. These texture is more compact, must be heated for a long time in order to eat the raw materials; secondly, to master the fire, some of the boil for a long time to boil loose, boil.

3, the experience of eating hot pot should be first meat after vegetarian.

Hot food soup must be boiling, to be all immersed in the soup hot food; followed by like spicy flavor, adjusting the spicy flavor, the method is: like spicy, can be hot from the hot pot side of the oil at the hot food; conversely, from the middle of the boiling at the hot food; once again is to eat hot pot, you must be equipped with a cup of tea, in order to appetizing and digestive, oil to grease, a change of taste, to alleviate the feeling of numbness and spiciness.

4. Hot pot in the same decoction with Chinese medicine.

With Chinese medicine dendrobium, yuan ginseng, maitong 10 grams each, wrapped in gauze. Put in the hot pot with cooking 15-20 minutes, go to the gauze package, can be eaten. There are nourishing yin and fire to promote the role of the body, can prevent eating hot pot induced by the "fire" phenomenon.

5. Put some vegetables or tofu in the hot pot.

Vegetables such as spinach, celery, green beans. Tofu and its products such as old tofu, Bai Ye and so on. Vegetables contain a lot of vitamins and chlorophyll, tofu contains gypsum components, sex are cool, have heat diarrhea fire in addition to the effect. Can prevent eating hot pot "on fire".

6. Add a little beer to the hot pot.

In the hot pot add 2 spoons of beer, can make the hot pot soup mellow flavor, because the beer is rich in a variety of nutrients, not only can balance the nutrition, but also to prevent the hot pot "on fire" method.

7. After tasting the hot pot, eat some fruit.

After eating hot pot, every 20-30 minutes, eat some cool fruits, such as pears, lotus root, apples, oranges, etc., can prevent "fire", but do not eat hot oranges.