Chongqing Hotpot
Chongqing Hotpot has long been a standard kind of restaurant meal. You may enjoy choosing your own ingredients and adding them to the pot yourself to make a kind of soup or stew in the pot on the table in front you. People usually want red soup broth that is full of red pepper or a clear soup broth.
There are only two types of soup for a hot pot- one is Spicy and the other is not spicy (usually white in color). The base of the soup (either spicy or non spicy) varies from restaurant to restaurant- it is usually bone soup but chicken soup is also common. The flavored oil dip is NOT castor oil- it's sesame oil. And it can be 'dressed' up in a variety of ways according to your tastes- using vinegar, chicken powder, cilantro, chives, or a number of different things that are offered. If you have a mixed group- meaning some don't eat really spicy food...there are special pots with a divider in the middle and you can have both the non spicy and spicy soup. Usually if it's mixed- even the Chongqing people will boil vegetables in the non spicy side to cook them...and then just quickly dip them in the spicy side for more flavors.
Hi Rei
Our travel advisor Karen Yang(http://www.chinahighlights.com/community/user/14/) has contacted you.
Thanks for your support.
