This article is written by the Eater Society
On a cold winter day, about three or five friends sit around the steaming hot pot, a plate of their favorite exclusive sauce, a variety of meat and vegetarian food, put into the pot for a shabu, clip to the mouth to taste, not only the taste is full, but also the whole body is warm, it is really a human enjoyment! Hot pot is a delicacy that is renowned throughout the country. Ancient name "antique soup", in our country has a long history, it is said that the earliest can be traced back to the Xia Shang and Western Zhou period, it is inferred that the Ding ware at that time should be the earliest prototype of hot pot pots. However, according to research, the real hot pot should be in China's Warring States period, this period, the pot is mainly based on clay pots. With the passage of time, people's living standards have improved, and by the Song Dynasty, folk eating hot pot has become more common. By the time of the Yuan Dynasty, with the continuous expansion of the territory of the Yuan Empire established by Genghis Khan the Great, the hot pot was eaten out of Asia and into Europe. It can be seen that the unique historical status of the hot pot eating method in the field of Chinese people eating.
Nowadays, the way to eat hot pot is more colorful, but at present, China's hot pot is divided into six mainstream factions, I call it the six-vein ancient sword, occupying the first vein of the northern hot pot, which is dominated by the original taste. Among them, the old Beijing copper hot pot is the most famous, my favorite, come to a pot of water, two pieces of green onion, three pieces of yellow ginger, four red dates. Fresh meat is mainly served in clear soup, and meats such as fresh beef and fresh lamb are selected. Whether you are a guest from afar, or a close friend or relative, make sure you eat a lot. This original taste highlights the hospitable attitude of our northerners and reveals our rugged and heroic temperament.
This second vein is the Sichuan hot pot represented by Sichuan and Chongqing hot pot. This vein is incomparably spicy, and it is said that it is not spicy or happy. The red bottom of the hot pot is accompanied by red peppers and the peppercorns that are rolling up and down. Shabu-shabu a brain flower, a hairy belly, a blind leaf, and a red intestine. The rolling red soup shows the numbness, spicy, fresh and fragrant to the fullest, whether you are a red man and green woman or a yellow hair hanging hair, the package you eat is sweaty like rain, the eyes are venus, a cherry mouth becomes a sausage, and the open mouth is incense, incense, incense. Don't look at it spicy and numb, but it occupies half of the hot pot, which is really worthy of being the most eaten vein.
The third vein of Yungui system, Yungui region is one of the largest gathering areas of our country, hot pot here is played to the extreme, although the hot pot is not happy, but vegetarian dishes in the field of Yungui hot pot is a unique existence, don't look at people eat vegetarian, but the luxury of those sky-high vegetarian dishes is the existence you can't imagine. Some people say that when it comes to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, there is only the unthinkable, but there is no shabu-shabu. There is nothing that cannot be taken to shabu- and the famous cow and sheep hot pot take the juice squeezed out of the half-digested grass in the stomach of the cow and sheep, and boil it with bile. Paired with other ingredients, just thinking about it makes you feel scared. There are also many edible flowers, and it is good that all kinds of edible flowers can be used for shabu-shabu. Although it is also spicy, the dishes with strong Yunnan flavor and regional characteristics are still slightly inferior to the amount eaten by Sichuan hot pot.
The fourth vein of Cantonese hot pot, also known as "beating stove" commonly known as "playing side stove", the earliest everyone is standing "playing side stove", slowly dripping all sit down to eat hot pot. Different from the spicy of the Sichuan system, the Cantonese system is mainly based on light health care, and the Cantonese hot pot pays attention to the soup base, and a pot of thick health soup must be boiled out before eating the hot pot as the bottom of the pot. Don't eat hot pot, just drink soup is a kind of enjoyment. At the same time, the ingredients are also more exquisite, and the selected ingredients are the fresh and fragrant materials that are still alive in the last second and have been put into the pot in the next second. In particular, Chaoshan pure handmade fish, shrimp, beef and other balls, after tens of thousands of hands-on beatings, the scriptures are cooked on fire, and the bite is full of Q in the mouth. Everything is based on the principle of conforming to the way of health.
The fifth vein, Jiangsu and Zhejiang hot pot, this vein is mainly based on body repair, pay attention to the enjoyment and health of the internal organs, add some Chinese medicinal materials to the hot pot, and start a pot of light and fragrant health soup. Among them is the loach hot pot, known as ginseng in the water, which pays attention to the perfect combination of protein and a variety of vitamins. After eating a pot, it is like a water town in Jiangnan, with freshness in the haze and innocence in simplicity. Let people bathe in it wholeheartedly.
The sixth vein, represented by the two lakes, is other hot pots, pursuing wild game stimulation and alternative attempts. Although the wild game hot pot is good, don't be greedy. At a time when wild animals are increasingly protected, in the stalls where the new crown epidemic is normalized, we call on everyone to eat less or not eat "wild meat" hot pot. Although innovation is good, it is not orthodox in the end, and there is no specific representation.
Hot pot this human food, happy to come to a pot, bored to a pot, no matter what mood you are in before eating, after eating can always make you feel happy, eat your heart. There is nothing that a hot pot can't solve, and if there is, then another pot.