Qianlong's favorite Yangpai "chrysanthemum hot pot" have you heard of it? That's how it was done

　　Qianlong also ate the Yangpai "chrysanthemum hot pot"

　　"In the cold winter months, it is a pleasant thing to ask friends to eat a hot pot, but now the market is based on spicy Sichuan hot pot." Miss Guan told reporters. As the world's capital of gastronomy, does Yangzhou have its own hot pot?

　　"There are countless kinds of cuisines in Yangzhou, including a hot pot called 'Chrysanthemum Hot Pot'. This hot pot is based on broth, and all the shabu-shabu dishes are split into a chrysanthemum shape by the chef, without any additives. Qiu Yangyi, executive vice president and secretary general of the Municipal Culinary and Catering Industry Association, said that Qianlong once ate the "chrysanthemum hot pot" offered by the locals when he was in Yangzhou, and the case was amazing, and after returning to the capital, he often ate the "chrysanthemum hot pot" while chanting poems, but now this hot pot has almost disappeared in Yangcheng, which is regrettable.

　　Reveal how "chrysanthemum hot pot" is made

　　So, how is this "chrysanthemum hot pot" made? And how to achieve health?

　　"Simply put, 'chrysanthemum hot pot' is four meats and four vegetarian dishes, and one chicken soup." Huaiyang cuisine taidou Xue Quansheng said.

　　First of all, the bottom soup of "chrysanthemum hot pot" is very nourishing and healthy, it is made of winter shoots, snow vegetables with ribs, pig's trotters and chicken soup; the four meats refer to raw chicken slices, lean meat slices, waist slices and fish fillets; and the four elements refer to yellow cauliflower cores or green cabbage cores, vermicelli, sesame oil steamed buns, diamond navels.

　　None of the dishes contain chrysanthemums, so where do chrysanthemums come from? Xue Quansheng said that the previous family had to prepare a copper pot, that is, the proverbial "warm pot", adding enough steel charcoal to the furnace cavity, the flame that came out was like a blooming chrysanthemum; secondly, whether it was meat or vegetarian vegetables, under the careful processing of the chef, it also achieved "raw flowers under the knife", and the shape of the plate was like a chrysanthemum, which was very exquisite.

　　Xue Quansheng said frankly, "Eating hot pot pays attention to a 'hot', and the dishes are put into the bottom soup and cooked twice." As a result, the raw chicken slices, lean meat slices, waist slices, and fish slices in the 'chrysanthemum hot pot' are all thin slices cut by the chef one by one, which is extremely challenging to the knifemanship."

　　"Chrysanthemum hot pot" belongs to a traditional dish in Yangzhou, and the old Yangzhou people love to taste it. Unfortunately, this classic Yangpai hot pot has gradually disappeared in the long river of history.

Source: Yangzhou Release