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What's the difference between hot pot and chuanchuanxiang?

Hot pot, Sichuanese love to eat hot pot all year round. It seems that they don't eat hot pot once every three days, and they feel uncomfortable all over. Sichuan hot pot originated from the people, no matter ordinary pawns, literati, senior officials or white hair, they all have a special liking for it. Hot pot is generally divided into red soup, clear soup and mandarin duck to meet the needs of various tastes.

Characteristics of hot pot:

Pot bottom: according to the oil used, the most common ones are roughly divided into clear oil hot pot and butter hot pot.

Ingredients: beef tripe, duck intestines, goose intestines, lunch meat, yellow throat, beef, fat beef, meatballs, piranha and other meat dishes, lotus root, potatoes, Flammulina velutipes and other vegetarian dishes.

Dip: Generally speaking, it is an oil dish. The most common dishes are garlic, sesame oil and dried rape.

How to eat: generally, it is mainly boiled and rinsed. Take it out of the pan, put it in your own oil pan and chew it in your mouth. There are many snacks in the hot pot, such as pumpkin pie, gold and silver steamed bread, Indian flying cake or fruit after dinner.

String string, the full name of "string string incense", is also a kind of food that people in Sichuan and Chongqing love and pursue. The grade is lower than that of hot pot, and it is often opened in streets, food markets and other places, which is more grassroots. Actually, it is another form of hot pot. String is a snack that the boss puts bamboo sticks on all kinds of dishes, then picks up the dishes by himself and cooks them with bamboo sticks. String is divided into cold pot string and hot pot string.

Characteristics of the string:

Bottom of the pot: the bottom of the hot pot string is generally boiling red soup, which is lighter than hot pot; Cold pot skewers are generally seasoned with oil peppers.

Ingredients: similar to hot pot.

Dip: sesame oil dish and dry oil dish.

How to eat: put the bamboo sticks with vegetables on them in the pot to cook (eat them directly in cold pots), and let the boss sign the bill after eating.