Chongqing hot pot is famous for spicy, vegetarian large pot instead of pot, the basin is rolling red soup, soup floating on the surface of the hemp pepper, pepper, and some I can not name the ingredients. Such a red pot bottom looks to give people a numb and spicy feeling, often make us foreign tourists daunted. But after experiencing Chongqing hot pot a few times, I slowly like it, think it has many advantages. One is that it is more hygienic. Scalding food in boiling soup achieves high-temperature sterilization, and so far I have not heard of food poisoning after eating hot pot. Second, it can save food. When you eat hot pot, you can eat as much as you like, so you won't waste anything. Thirdly, the program can be reduced, making eating simple. If you have a small gathering with your friends and relatives at home, you will be busy and tired on and off the stove, while Chongqing hotpot simplifies the complicated kitchen operation by cleaning all kinds of food, so that your friends and relatives can sit around the table and taste the delicious food. In today's increasingly accelerated pace of life, hot pot is a convenient, fast food enjoyment. Fourth, Chongqing hot pot has the effect of fitness and beauty. Even in the hot summer, eating hot pot people are not few. Surrounded by hot pot, bare shoulders, sweating, eating a lot of fun diners abound, which has become a scene in Chongqing. It is said that eating hot pot out of a dripping sweat, like a sauna, with health effects. Chongqing people believe that eating hot pot is more economical than taking a sauna. Chongqing men are mostly lean, women are mostly slim, which is in addition to the Chongqing people every day uphill and downhill physical exercise, eating hot pot is also an important reason.
There are many other things to be said about eating hot pot in Chongqing. Now most of the pot to replace the large stainless steel basin, the center is divided into two compartments, called the "mandarin ducks hot pot", a compartment to put the red soup, a compartment to put the broth, respectively, for those who eat spicy and do not eat spicy people to enjoy. Eating hot pot is inseparable from the oil dish, is a small dish filled with sesame oil, seasoned with garlic and other ingredients, hot dishes into the oil dish to eat, not only can increase the taste, it is said that the sesame oil also has a cooling effect to defeat the fire.
The history of Chongqing hot pot can be traced back to the ancient Ba Shu period, the local special geography, climate and natural conditions, the formation of a unique eating habits. Chongqing is commonly known as the fog capital, the climate is humid, in order to drive away the cold and dampness, fiber workers, farmers and other manual laborers on the ground, in a few stones built into the stove, lit a fire, set up a tile pot, boiling water, will be large chili peppers, peppercorns, etc. into the boiling water, will be hot food after eating, which is the prototype of the hot pot. The eating habits formed over thousands of years followed the trend of history and gradually evolved into today's Chongqing hot pot.
In today's increasingly developing food culture, Chongqing hot pot is a booming business, and will continue to thrive. Chongqing hot pot with a long history of Sichuan cultural heritage, all over the country, and even out of the country. It is no exaggeration to say that Chongqing people's obsession with hot pot is among the top in the country. With the development of Chongqing's economy and culture, the influence of Chongqing hot pot will be more and more. In the face of the "spicy to death, numb" Chongqing hot pot, you dare to taste it?
I can't forget Chongqing hot pot!