What are the specialties in Nanchuan, Chongqing?

In Nanchuan, Chongqing, there is a local specialty of clear soup hot pot that every visitor from afar has to stop and taste. Nanchuan is rich in square bamboo shoots, so the people of Nanchuan combine square bamboo shoots with preserved pork ribs, and then add bean sprouts, shiitake mushrooms and other ingredients, and a nourishing and nutritious winter health hot pot is born.

At the foot of Nanchuan's most famous scenic spot, Jinfo Mountain, there's a small town of Tianxing, where tourists come and go to rest their feet, and the preserved pork ribs and square bamboo shoots hot pot becomes the first choice of tourists.

Prices for a pot of square bamboo shoots hot pot range from 250 yuan to 300 yuan, and with various tea service charges, you can have a full meal for about 300 yuan. In Nanchuan, there is an unwritten rule that vegetables are free, and you can add more when you are finished, even if 10 of us eat a pot.

Waxed pork ribs and bamboo shoots hot pot is a typical clear soup hot pot, the soup appears milky white, and after a long time of wind and smoked made of waxed pork ribs most of the dark brown or black, so when you eat a glance can be found in the pot.

The smoky flavor of the preserved pork ribs is particularly fragrant, and after being stewed, they taste even more moist, yet the surface is somewhat dry and chewy. While chewing, you can feel the flavor of the preserved ribs, slowly radiating out, getting stronger and stronger, evocative of the past.

Very few people don't know about square bamboo shoots, thinking that they are just bamboo shoots cut into squares, but in fact, square bamboo shoots are a variety of bamboo shoots, growing in the plateau area of 1400 meters to 2500 meters poster, which is very rare.

Square bamboo shoots are smaller than normal bamboo shoots, so the moisture content is higher, and the taste is more crisp. Chongqing people also like to eat it in hot pots and use it to roast chicken and meat.

And Nanchuan's preserved pork ribs and square bamboo shoots hot pot gives the bamboo shoots a richer flavor. After a long time of stewing, the unique flavor of preserved pork ribs has penetrated into the square bamboo shoots, making them taste both fragrant and meaty with the preserved pork ribs.

Meanwhile, the pork ribs and bamboo shoots are simmered together, making the broth more flavorful, warming the stomach and the heart, and it's also a great choice for shabu-shabu.

If you have heavy tastes and are not used to such light flavors, don't worry, the restaurant usually prepares some extra dipping sauces, such as millet chili, roasted peppers, sesame oil, chili oil and so on.

Youpin recommend a match of roasted pepper and millet chili, used to dip the preserved pork ribs to eat, have a taste. And the soup base of the preserved pork ribs and bamboo shoots hot pot is especially suitable for dipping vegetables, potatoes, lotus root slices, pea tips, oatmeal, baby bok choy, and so on, into the seasoning is also very strong.

Have you all had the Lapis Pork Ribs and Bamboo Shoots Hot Pot? If you're interested, you can try it in Nanchuan, Chongqing, and go skiing at Jinfo Mountain on the way!