The Chongqing Hotpot (AW)

I never refuse to delicious food. Since I came to Singapore, I have tried many different kinds of food, like Indonesian food, vegetarian, muslin food, Japanese express and Singaporean food. For me they are all palatable, I like them even I can’t tell you which one I love best. But every time I call my friends in my hometown Chongqing, the Chongqing Hotpot will come into my mind, at the moment, I begin to dribble. Because I can promise you it is the most delicious food in my whole life.
The main character of the Chongqing Hotpot is spicy. The soup of the Hotpot is taken seriously and it is said the ingredients of the soup is a secret, every restaurant keeps own secret. The cook will put many different spices into a pot of water like chili, Chinese pepper, garlic, ginger, sesame, and add tallow, a pot of soup is created. The pot is sent to the middle of a table, there is a stove below it to keep the soup boil, clients will order their favorite food, then use chopsticks to nip them, after keeping them in the soup for a little while, they can enjoy what they want.
The Chongqing Hotpot derived from folk. In Qing Dynasty, because Yangzi River gets through my hometown, Chongqing became a paramount port city in the southwest of China. Many people came to these ports to make a living. But they were so poor, they couldn’t afford warm houses or sufficient food in cold winter, the only thing they could do was collecting some not very fresh vegetables or meat to cook them in a kind of hot soup, then ate them to defend the cold weather.
However today the Chongqing Hotpot has become a visiting card of my hometown, even someone says if you don’t have the Chongqing Hotpot, you can never experience what real Chongqing is. And this special food cultivates a vibrant culture for its people, like the Chongqing Hotpot is hot, the characters of people in Chongqing are decisive, candid, welcome, being loyal to their friends.
I welcome you to my hometown which is a very beautiful and modern mountain city, and I advise you have a taste on our Chongqing Hotpot, wishing you love it.