Chongqing Hotpot - Chapter 1

Traditional Hotpot in Chongqing


Author: jiangmin zhu

Hi, everyone, I am jiangmin zhu. I am a native Chongqing person. In my following four blogs, I will introduce four traditional Chongqing food to you. Hope you can enjoy them.

Sydney is a multicultural city, in Sydney you can eat this traditional hotpot as well, but it is very expensive if you want to eat outside, so let's find another way to enjoy this delicious food.

The picture below is my roommates and I eat hotpot at our house, looks like very yummy, right?



If you want to try this traditional hotpot, just keep reading!!!

Eat hotpot at home, just follow these steps:
  1. Buy one hotpot seasoning in any Chinese supermarket.
  2. Buy whatever food you like and can be cooked, such as potato, tomato, beef, chicken, tofu etc.
  3. Put the hotpot seasoning into boiled water. 
  4. When water boiled again, put the food you prepared before into the pot, and when the food cook properly, you can enjoy then.

Tip: it is better to use induction cooker since people can sit around the induction cooker and the pot can put on the induction cooker, when you run out the food, you can put more food into the pot until it can be ate. People in my country very enjoy this way to eat. It is warm, delicious as well as very convivence. 





Note: All the pictures and video are from the author, shall not be reproduced without permission!!!

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