According to legend, in the Battle of Gengzi that year, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an with the Guangxu Emperor. One night. Cixi suddenly wanted to eat something strange and asked to make it in front of her. This is not bad for the royal chefs, how is it good?
The imperial chefs were also racking their brains, a clever imperial cook thought that Cixi usually loves to eat chicken, so he chose chicken pudding as a filling, wrapped into a small dumpling shaped like an apricot core, and prepared an antique copper hot pot with chicken and duck soup, and then added mushrooms, green beans, sea rice, leeks and other accessories.
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The alcohol under the hot pot was lit with Cixi's noodles, and suddenly the light blue flame was like a blooming chrysanthemum, and the boiling soup in the pot was full of aroma. The chef puts the pearl dumplings into the pot, cooks them instantly, and then uses a small spoon to fill the bowl with fresh soup and three small dumplings. Commonly known as: three six nine go up. The third is a clever auspicious number, dumplings and tender soup fresh, eating method is unique and interesting, Cixi tasted after the great joy, "Empress Dowager hot pot dumplings" also got its name.
Nowadays, "Empress Dowager Hot Pot Dumplings" is already an authentic food in Xi'an, and is an indispensable highlight of the Xi'an Dumpling Feast, when tasting the Dumpling Feast, and the last "Empress Dowager Hot Pot" pushes the Dumpling Feast to a climax.