What is the meaning of Chongqing 9 Palace Grid Hot Pot

As the name suggests, the nine palace grid hot pot consists of nine grids.

In fact, the nine palace grid hot pot can be said to be the wisdom of Chongqing people in eating hot pot, it is based on the fire and oil temperature in the pot, the pot is divided into nine, different places, suitable for putting different ingredients, so that it is more convenient to eat. If you mix all the ingredients together, not only is it inconvenient to clip them out, but it also tends to cause some ingredients to cook old and some to clip raw.

And the nine-horizontal grid hot pot divides the pot into 9 grids, which represent 3 areas, 1 center grid, 4 cross grids, and 4 four-corner grids. The center grid, in the middle of the pot, the fire is more fierce, the oil temperature is very high. Often in the up and down rolling state, less oil, suitable for hot cooking. For example: tripe, duck intestines, fatty beef, beef liver, sliced waist. Generally 10-20 seconds can be fished out and eaten, eat fresh and crisp.

Ways to eat hot pot

Preferred clear soup pot, mushroom pot, tomato pot, etc., less choose high soup (purine, high fat) and butter spicy (high calorie, high salt) pot base. Many diners love to drink a mouthful of hot pot soup base, soup base can actually drink to be divided into circumstances: clear soup, mushroom soup and other "vegetarian" soup base, the first boil, you can drink some of the appropriate, long cooking soup base is not recommended to drink.

The flavor of the hot pot is equal to the quality of the ingredients + soup base + soul dipping sauce, usually eat light eaters can try the oil and vinegar sauce, and then put some chopped green onions, garlic, cilantro. If you choose the heavy oil and salt dipping sauces such as sesame sauce, sacha sauce, and spicy sauce, you can take less and put some hot water to dilute it, and the flavor is also good.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chongqing