And at last the reason for the meal is made manifest. THIS is what I live for, foodwise. And I only ever eat from the red half. (The white half is for people who are weak at spice.)
Interesting side note.
In Chongqing proper, the half/half broth like this costs about the same at a decent restaurant: about US$ 6-7. But if you get just the red broth in a pan the same size it's only $1. If you can't tolerate spice, you'll pay for it in Chongqing! 🤣
At any rate, I didn't show all items because I can only have ten pics in a post, and I'm too lazy to do a fifth post. Missing from this list are some thinly-sliced beef to go with the mutton, some potato slices, and some spinach. All were equally well-presented.
As much as I love hot pot (it has rapidly become comfort food for me), there are other dishes to eat as well. Here are the dishes that fall into the "other" category.
This place offers a huge condiment bar for making custom dipping sauces. Most places will have a few of these ingredients in small volumes at the table, but here they give you a very large number of them and let you make your own creations. I have a very specific mix I make these days, shown in the last two pictures of this sequence.
I am fortunate enough to live within walking distance of my favourite #restaurant in the world.
This is no exaggeration. This is literally my favourite place to eat, and I've been to a lot of restaurants in a lot of cities in a lot of countries.
Yesterday, out of the blue, SO invited me out to lunch at my favourite place, so I decided I'd show the place in a bit more detail than I have in the past.
This is the first post of four planned, showing the facilities of the place. Further posts will show off the condiment bar, the side dishes, and finally the main event itself.
The #Hotpot#GenerativeAI picture generator has an interesting feature: it seems to be flatly impossible to generate a picture with both #DonaldTrump and #VladimirPutin in which Trump is in any way subservient to or even equal to Putin.
This is the closest I've come, which is not very close at all. It still has Trump slightly more in the foreground than Putin, despite the prompt stating they should be side by side.