zhang.dianli,

Hot Pot: The Main Event

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.

#ChonqingStyle #HotPot #MainEvent

A telling sign of the danger to come. The red side is basically the same as the white side with added peppers and Sichuan peppercorns and the like. Notice how that's off to a rollicking boil before the white side has even started to fitfully stir? Those with a bit of experience know what's coming now...
Thinly-sliced mutton.
Top to bottom in a left-ward arc: - Black doufu (made from fermented soy beans, giving it a very different mouthfeel and a bit of a smoky flavour). - Sliced lotus root. - "Doupi" (lit. "bean skin"); I don't want to get into explaining that. Google is a thing. - One of the dishes I requested: a kind of mushroom. I don't know the name in Chinese or English, sorry.
Another dish ordered at my behest. They're similar to the white mushrooms used in things like tinned mushrooms in North America, but have the brown top instead. I gain I don't know the name. For someone who loves mushrooms I suck at keeping track of them, don't I?
A nest (made of shredded daikon radish and carrot) of quail eggs.
Hand-made meatballs made from CHOPPED pork, not ground.
Beef tripe. In North America it's garbage or dogfood. Here it was the second-most expensive item of the meal.
Duck blood "doufu". (It's not the latter. It's the former. Congealed duck blood. I don't eat it because, although I really like the flavour, it reacts very badly and very quickly with my stomach and I'd be hungry again very quickly if you get my drift.)
Some thick, glutinous-when-cooked noodles made from sweet potato flour.

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