🍽️ Chongqing Hotpot

Famous for spice, rich butter broth with varied ingredients.

Chongqing hotpot is famous worldwide for its spicy beef-tallow broth. The red soup is slow-simmered with beef tallow, pixian broad bean paste, chilies, Sichuan peppercorn and many spices, glossy red and pungent. Typical ingredients such as tripe, duck intestine, aortic wall and tender beef are swirled in the rolling broth, cooked to just-done for crisp, melting texture, then dipped in a garlic-oil bowl to cool and amplify flavor. The nine-grid pot cooks different items at different heats. Gathering around the bubbling pot, sweating freely, is the heart of Chongqing hospitality and nightlife; the longer it cooks, the richer it gets.