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The Chinese Hot Pot!
Posted by InfiniteDreamsAug 17, 2007 | 192 views
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It was my first visit to China and the time to experiment real Chinese food came sooner than I expected ! Chengdu is a place in china famous for its spicy cuisine andmylocal friends had arranged a welcome "Hot Pot" dinner supposed to be a local spicy specialty.
The restaurant setup was totally unexpected for me - each dinner table was set with a big pan in the centre with a gas stove under the table. Hot pot dinner style was to keep hot soup boiling in the middle of the table by lighting the gas stove under the table and order vegetarian & non-vegetarian ingredients. These different ingredients will then be put into the hot soup with pepper & spices to get the spicy flavor, after which it will be picked from the soup pan & eaten.
The restaurant setup was totally unexpected for me - each dinner table was set with a big pan in the centre with a gas stove under the table. Hot pot dinner style was to keep hot soup boiling in the middle of the table by lighting the gas stove under the table and order vegetarian & non-vegetarian ingredients. These different ingredients will then be put into the hot soup with pepper & spices to get the spicy flavor, after which it will be picked from the soup pan & eaten.
The hotpot we ordered was a Dual Hotpot which consisted of a white soup & a brown soup poured into the dinner table pan, which was soon clarified to be fish soup & cow fat soup respectively! Started feeling that this was beginning to get interesting, but soon realized it was nothing because the ingredients that were then added into these soups were the weirdest combination of creatures & their parts Ive ever eaten in my life! Pork meat balls, tender beef, goose intestine, cow stomach meat stripes, chicken leg mushrooms, soft bamboo shoots & lettuce leaves are some of the items that I remember! The sauce accompanied with this exotic combination was also no less. It was prepared by mixing oyster sauce, vinegar, ginger & some spices in proportionate quantities as desired. After the adventure round was completed & everything devoured, we also had some delicious dessert sweet balls made of rice & sesame & some buttermilk.
The other thing that made the dinner quite special was the different performances by Chinese artists on the restaurant centre stage, creating a wonderful ambience with music, dance & martial arts. On the whole, I felt the dinner experience really conveyed what it was meant for - Welcome toChina
The other thing that made the dinner quite special was the different performances by Chinese artists on the restaurant centre stage, creating a wonderful ambience with music, dance & martial arts. On the whole, I felt the dinner experience really conveyed what it was meant for - Welcome to
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