In fact, for a native Sichuanese, there is no season that is not suitable for eating hot pot all year round.
Hot pot is an appetizer. When you feel that life is boring, hot pot is the best seasoning, which stimulates your taste buds and reaches your stomach through the esophagus, making you feel refreshed.
Of course, it belongs to the healing system. When you feel depressed and depressed, you might as well walk into a hot pot restaurant. It is not bitter, but it is a good medicine. Heal your empty stomach and light up your yellow heart.
Watching the boiling red soup roll, there is a sense of happiness. To experience this feeling in YOLO is to experience life in YOLO.
In Sichuan, both the food city and the residential hotel area are full of hot pot restaurants. There are all kinds of shops with different names. Those who order shabu-shabu are called shabu-shabu, those who cook with bamboo sticks are called skewers, those who cook directly are called maocai, and those who have no soup are called griddles. Chongqing people like to call them old hotpot. But they never leave the main line of the pot, and they can't eat it until they are cooked with fire, so they simply call it hot pot.
You don't have to worry about too many peers and fierce competition. You don't have any friends. Even though there are few Chinese restaurants nearby, there are still long queues outside these hot pot restaurants. The bartender in a hot pot restaurant can never find a chance to rest, but the owner is happy.
Generally, the prices of hot pot restaurants are relatively moderate, and many stores are engaged in various people-friendly activities. Staple food is free, drinks are half price, soup base is free, etc. To attract the taste buds of the public.
Strange to say, you really have to go to a hot pot restaurant to experience the feeling of eating hot pot. As a hardcore fan of hot pot, I often buy some hot pot bottom materials and cook them at home, learn from the store, slowly cook soup, and then cook my favorite dishes. But no matter how you cook or eat, you can't make a lively scene.
Just like our life, we don't support discounts and we can't take detours. If you want to be lazy, life will definitely give you a quality experience at a big discount.
Speaking of hot pot, we must first talk about the soup base. No matter what kind of hot pot restaurant you walk into, whether it is highly decorated or roadside food stalls, expensive or cheap, ordering or self-service, as soon as you enter the store, Xiao Er first asks you: What kind of pot does the guest officer want? This pot refers to the soup base. Generally, there are only three kinds of pots: clear soup pot, red soup pot and Yuanyang pot. There is no need to explain the clear red soup. Most people in Yuanyang pot know that the clear red soup coexists, and each soup is half matched. Yuanyang, of course, should be matched, and the size should match.
Actually, it's not. Hot pots in most areas are really set up like this. Take care of all tastes. It doesn't matter whether they are hot or not. In Sichuan, the two mandarin ducks in Qinghongtang don't look so well matched. A big pot of soup came up, almost all spicy soup, with a small area in the middle and a little clear soup. The ratio of clear red mandarin duck to red mandarin duck was one to six. For Sichuanese, this ratio is enough.
For me, eating hot pot without red soup is like living an ordinary life without hot spots.
Chuanwai, I want the hottest red soup. I feel the hottest after eating. Actually, it's not very spicy, but a little salty at best. If I were in Sichuan, I would still order red soup, but it was slightly spicy or medium spicy. Of course, different stores will have different challenges to taste buds, depending on the situation.
When most people eat hot pot, they will order a mandarin duck pot, which is generally to take care of their peers and may not be suitable for spicy food. Hot pot, almost no one eats it alone. In most cases, it is a family, even a group of people, at least two people. There seems to be a rule that no one can enter the hot pot restaurant. However, we can't find someone to accompany us when we want to eat hot pot. So what should we do?
Sichuan people's diet culture can be described as a form of diet. One can't eat hot pot. No, we invented a hot pot specially cooked for one person. Then, something called "maocai" came out. Yes, you are right. Maocai is a hot pot for one person, and of course, hot pot naturally becomes a maocai for a group of people.
If you happen to be alone in a very cold winter, don't hesitate to order a bowl of maocai to warm your stomach, your heart and your life this winter.
A pot of red soup is served, and this cooking pot is also various, round, square and even oval. There are stainless steel pot, copper pots, casseroles, large pots used by a group of people, and small pots used by only one person.
The contents of the soup are also different, some are bone soup, some are chicken soup, and some are boiled water directly. No matter what kind of soup is mixed with red oil hot pot seasoning and then cooked, what kind of soup is similar, and most people can't tell it apart.
The biggest difference is the oil layer, which is simply a layer of oil. We eat all kinds of oil, animal oil, vegetable oil, gutter oil and so on every day, which is normal and novel. It's not easy to say, the smell of oil smoke is so floating on you, and you have to take three baths to restore your body fragrance when you go home. It's so capricious. Hotpot oil is the most common, but clear oil and butter are also mixed together, and there are so-called old oil and new oil.
Chongqing hot pot, which is famous at home and abroad, is a hot pot cooked with a so-called old oil. Old oil, as its name implies, is oil that has been used for a long time and hot pot oil that has been used repeatedly. It is said that the more you cook this oil, the better it smells. The reason why Chongqing hotpot is so charming is that kung fu is on this layer of oil.
I still shudder to think that all these soups are eaten by others over and over again, and that after eating, I consciously or unconsciously pour the remaining sundries into the soup, or even throw paper towels to wipe my mouth and nose. These experiences were told to me by friends in Chongqing a few years ago. When we were eating hot pot, he shared with us the mystery that all Chongqing people know everything and are willing to enjoy it.
You have to wait patiently at first, and the soup base covered with red oil will gradually heat up in the heat of the blazing flame. You have been commenting on the calm noodle soup, but nothing happened. You're starting to get a little anxious. A desire always affects you, so you can't help scratching the flame of the gas stove. In fact, at this time, the surface of the calm red oil layer has begun to have noise, which is like wearing a coat, so that you can't easily see the gradual change process inside it. When the time is right, break through this skin and the whole soup pot begins to churn.
After staring at the table for a long time, I can finally start serving.
The dishes in the hot pot are really colorful and spectacular. Only unexpected, no point. Whether it's birds or animals, going to a hot pot restaurant won't waste any parts. Chicken intestines and duck intestines are so common that even duck tongues can be cooked. As long as it is non-toxic and harmless, you can cook it in hot pot if you don't know how to cook it or how to eat it.
It seems that the dishes in hot pot are not particular, but there are many articles on material selection, knife making, storage and preservation. Every step affects your taste. I'm not a professional hot pot seller. I only pursue delicious enjoyment, so I won't discuss how to do it and how to pay attention for the time being.
But if you must eat, you must order. The dishes in hot pot are not only exquisite, but also exquisite in ordering and eating.
People who love meat can't order whole meat, which is not only greasy, but more importantly, getting angry. In fact, there is nothing in the hot pot that doesn't catch fire. Just to balance the taste. What's more, it's not meat that tastes fresh when cooked in a hot pot.
Of course, vegetarian dishes can't be ordered casually. First of all, don't eat too much, or you will feel that you have eaten nothing and it is a waste. Green leafy vegetables are needed, but not too much. One is enough. If you really like them, you can eat at most two. Besides, leafy vegetables are usually cooked last. If you cook leafy vegetables from the beginning, not only will the whole pot of oil be sucked away by the leaves, but leafy vegetables covered with Chili oil will not be so delicious.
In any case, whenever you eat hot pot, there are always several dishes that must be ordered, just like there are always several cuts in life.
Besides, tripe is a lifelong favorite. If you don't order tripe in a hot pot restaurant, this hot pot is tantamount to eating for nothing. This kind of thing, tripe, is easy to cook, tastes fast and tastes crisp and delicious.
However, we are always stupid and confused about tripe, tripe and tripe. Here's a little popular science. This guy named Niu is very tall and he has four stomachs. So the tripe you ordered at different tables is probably in different forms. It's not that the store deliberately tried to cheat you. In fact, they are all called tripe (please take out your mobile phone and ask Du Niang for details).
Just ironing tripe is also tricky. It needs to be cooked until it is full of fragrance, but it can't be scalded for too long. If scalded for too long, the meat will get old, the teeth will be bad, and you may not be able to bite. Of course, you can't eat crispy taste. It is not easy to keep the right balance. It's like talking about a love. If the relationship between two people is too familiar, they will lose their mystery. If the relationship is too combed, there will be no intimacy. Both sides can grasp the temperature of love for a long time.
Followed by duck intestines. When I was a child, when I killed chickens and ducks at home, my intestines were basically thrown directly to cats. There is really nothing to eat, and it is not easy to clean up. Unexpectedly, in the hot pot restaurant, this humble waste has become a dish. Wash the duck intestines, cut them directly, put them on a plate, add one to the soup pot for a few times, and the cut edges of the duck intestines will start to curl slightly, so you can eat them. Yes, the world is delicious.
Although I've heard of this way of eating duck intestines in hot pot for a long time, as an impatient lazy person, I can't wait for a chopstick soup for several times before I can eat one, so I always put a lot of roots together and put them directly into the pot to cook, and then fish them out to eat together after enough time. Although I feel that I throw in a big lump every time, I can only catch two or three. Where did everyone else go? It has not been announced yet. This way of eating continued until I walked into a hot pot restaurant again.
That day, as always, I tasted my favorite duck intestines. More or less, I feel that there is an eye watching me, but the desire for food still masks all external influences. I fished in the pot. I was wondering why I couldn't get it out when a strange man came over. Without saying anything, he directly picked up my chopsticks, picked up a duck intestine from the plate, rinsed it in the soup pot a few times, and then put it in my bowl. He said slowly, try again.
I was angry at that time and thought he despised me for not eating duck intestines. But just a little self-cultivation made me hold back my anger and smiled and said to him, "handsome boy, I know how to eat, but I'm too lazy to burn them one by one." I watched his expression change from calm to warm anger. I clearly saw the words "you are obviously wasting your life" on his lips, but he never said it. He put down my chopsticks and went straight away.
Strangely enough, I tasted the duck intestines of his soup and felt the taste was really different. Suddenly I feel that all the duck intestines I ate in those years have gone to waste. Since then, I have never cooked duck intestines in a big pot again. Scald slowly, taste slowly, the taste of duck intestines is naturally different, and the taste of life is different.
In the long journey of life, many times, we are like eating duck intestines. Although we know how to eat, we still can't taste life. Perhaps, once in a while, we need the guidance of a noble person or a passerby.
Let's talk about meat rolls. In fact, I am not very professional in eating, and I don't belong to the kind of person who looks for snacks all day long. It's just that every once in a while, greedy bugs will crawl out and erode my stomach, disturb my spirit and challenge my unknown beliefs. Like plates of meatloaf on the table, eating a meatloaf is like defeating a greedy bug, which is a joy of victory.
Those meat rolls are uniform, strong and straight, lying on the plate, like rows of border guards, sticking to the pot of soup in the middle of the table, guarding the three views of stimulating taste buds to drive away greedy insects.
More than ten years ago, I went to a buffet hotpot restaurant with some friends. At that time, everyone was still a student, and the purse was basically flat, a little flat. But still can't resist the temptation of hot pot. We decided to eat buffet hot pot, because no matter how much you eat, you only need to pay a fixed fee. So I really experienced and confirmed the legend of "holding the wall in, holding the wall out".
It was also in that buffet hotpot restaurant that I witnessed the whole process of meatloaf. Generally, the price of meat rolls will be more expensive. In the buffet hot pot restaurant, the boss came up with a strange trick to prevent people from cooking a lot of meat rolls and eating things in the store prematurely. Take a large piece of frozen meat, I don't know whether it is mutton, beef, pork or what kind of meat. Anyway, it is huge, almost half the size of a pig, and there is no fat arrangement, no skin and no bones.
Because the supply of meat rolls is slow and there are many people who like it, there is a shelf half a meter high in front of this large piece of frozen meat, and there is a long queue behind the shelf, winding and queuing.
The owner has a tool like a machete lying flat on the shelf. The flat-headed machete just moves back and forth. Every time it moves, it forms a roll of meat and then pushes it to the last plate. The plate is also relatively small, about five or six rolls of meat are packed in one plate. People in line can take away a plate. If you want another plate, you have to queue up from the tip of the long dragon tail.
If it were now, I certainly don't want to join that excitement. But at that time, I really thought it was a rare food in heaven and earth. No matter how long the queue is, no matter how long it takes, all the sweat, trouble and dryness will melt in that meat pie.
Hot pot is not a dish. Not only the taste and feeling of soup and rinse vegetables, but also the content of that bowl of small stained vegetables is extremely exquisite.
In the north, most people like a condiment called sauce. Sesame sauce, peanut butter, soy sauce and all kinds of sauces are especially sweet. The dishes in hot pot are delicious with a little sauce. In the south, hot pot dipping sauce is mainly oil dish. In short, each has its own future and tastes.
In Sichuan, where hot pots are everywhere, there are all kinds of dipping sauces in hot pots. As the saying goes, only you can't think of it, and I can't invent hot pot dipping sauce without it. In a hot pot restaurant, Xiao Er usually explains: Guest, the dipping sauce is ten meters in front of your right hand. Then, consciously or unconsciously, you look in the direction he pointed out to you: it's magnificent. The area of more than two square meters is temporarily filled with all kinds of things called containers. Each container contains different seasonings, and at most there are 20 to 30 kinds.
With so many kinds of spices, you are dazzled and can't start. If you haven't chosen the difficulty in this situation, it proves that you are strong enough. For example, I now: you can choose tens of millions, and I only take the old three: sesame oil, pepper and garlic paste. Be sure to have enough garlic paste, stir it in pepper powder and sesame oil, take a hot meat roll and soak it in this simple and fragrant dip. It's just that the smell of garlic will coexist firmly with your mouth for the next 24 hours or even longer, and no matter how advanced mouthwash you use, you can't drive it away.
I have lived in the north for a while, and occasionally I will have a hot pot addiction with three or five friends. Especially in winter, you always need a little warmth to warm your stomach and heart. But at that time, the hot pot we ate was always not so spicy, and the sauce we dipped in was basically sesame sauce.
I still remember that my friends in the dormitory bought a small rice cooker, which was about the size of a big bowl. On weekends, go out to buy some mushrooms and vegetables, add a bag of hot pot bottom material, go back to the dormitory, lock the door and start a delicious hot pot meal.
When eating, be alert to whether someone is knocking at the door. If the housekeeper happens to find out, it's over. Not only is this delicious meal finished, but even the pot for cooking hot pot will be taken away. The key is to have the whole school in informed criticism. Hurting people, hurting people, is really unbearable. Therefore, such a hot pot is destined to be a nerve-racking war. Be ready to clean up the pots and pans at any time. Once there is a knock on the door, act immediately, and lock it in the cupboard before opening the door.
This reminds me of those famine years my grandmother talked about. The government does not allow people to open fire to cook and eat. They can only drink porridge in the people's canteen, saying it's porridge, but it's almost all water. People can't stand being hungry, so they look for something to cook and eat everywhere. I cook secretly at night and dare not make a fire during the day. Once there are traces of smoke in their chimney, the whole family cannot escape political criticism. At that time, I didn't have enough to eat and I had to endure all kinds of criticisms. Where can I stand it?
How consistent are these two scenes of stealing food? The difference is that we are in 2 1 century. Stealing food is just to enjoy more, while grandma is to fill her stomach. They are struggling on the verge of life and death. The same fear, the same fear, and different ages interpret different meanings of life.
The pot of YOLO red soup is still churning, and all kinds of ingredients, regardless of red meat and Chinese cabbage, are tumbling in it together, cooking different flavors and filling different stomachs to meet different needs. Can fill the stomach, can also fill the stomach. Satisfy your taste buds and repair your lonely and depressed soul.
Eating hot pot in YOLO is a ups and downs life. We are eager for this burning excitement and love this colorful life.
Eat hot pot when you are happy, and eat hot pot when you are unhappy; If you want to eat hot pot, celebrate your birthday with hot pot. Friends get together to eat hot pot, and promotion and salary increase to eat hot pot; Hungry, want to eat hot pot, greedy, want to eat hot pot.