Origin of Skewers

Skewers, originated in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, is one of the special traditional snacks in the Sichuan region.Skewers are actually another form of hot pot, so people also tend to call them small hot pots. It first appeared in Chengdu, Sichuan in the mid-1980s. Initially, the skewers had simple pot bases and dishes, and have evolved to include almost everything. Different people make different kinds of skewers, and as a result, there is a wide variety of Sichuan skewers with different flavors.

Skewers get their name from the fact that they are a snack of various dishes on bamboo skewers, which are put into a boiling hot pot and eaten by shabu-shabu. With its unique charm and distinctive features, kebabs have spread to many cities across the country, and "spicy hot pot" is also a variant of it, and even to some extent, kebabs have become one of the representatives of Sichuan flavor.

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Skewer dishes

Skewers have many types, from the sea of seafood, fish, shrimp, crabs, shellfish, to poultry, pork, beef, mutton, duck, goose, and other healthy vegetables and so on many kinds of common dishes are beef, chicken, yellow labrador, carp, squid, quail eggs, maw's belly, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on. The most common dishes are beef, chicken, yellow labrador, crucian carp, squid, quail eggs, tripe, yellow throat, meatballs, ham sausage, gizzard, duck intestines, chicken hearts, crab roe, dried tofu, tofu skins, bean curd tendons, potatoes, taro, bamboo shoots, cabbage, lotus root slices, fungus, shiitake mushrooms, pea tips, and so on.

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