Chongqing >> Hot pot

Attraction Typ: Special dishes and Restaurants

Location: City Centre - Central

Recommend: 5 Star

Hot pot

Chongqing Hot pot, considered as a local specialty, is not popular to the local people but also favorite to people through the country.

Chongqing Hot pot (Chinese:火锅; pinyin: Huǒ Guō) is the most famous and favorite dish in Chongqing. Chongqing local people consider the hot pot a local specialty, which is noted for its peppery and hot taste, scalding yet fresh and tender. Nowadays, Chongqing hot pot is not popular to the local people but also favorite to people through the country.

In the ancient time, Chongqing hot pot was first eaten by poor boatmen of the Yangtze River in Chongqing area and then spread westwards to the rest of Sichuan Province. It becomes more and more popular now and can be found at every corner of the city.

Chongqing people love their hotpot, especially when the weather is steamy. The fire dances under the pot, the heavily oiled and spiced soup boils with hazy steam, and the people are bathed in sweat. Although hotpot can be found wherever there are street vendors or small restaurants, Chongqing Hot pot has the greatest variety and is known for its delicious soup base and dipping sauce.

Chongqing people like to gather around a small pot boiled and enjoy the hot pot while chatting. The most representative and famous types of hotpots are Cattle-gut Hotpot, which is characterized by hotness, heavy flavors and dense soup, Yuanyang Hotpot, a mixture of the hot soup of traditional cattle-gut hotpot and the bree of mum hotpot as well as the Time-honored "Qiaotou" Hotpot which is said to be among the top ones.

When travel to Chongqing, don't miss the Chongqing Hot pot. You will experience the real spice and hot pot there.