Details: Empress Dowager hot pot is a traditional snack of the Han people in Shaanxi Province. The chefs wrapped the chicken breasts into small pearl dumplings, and the hot pot contained chicken soup was served to the empress dowager, and cooked as she pleased. This kind of dumpling, posterity is called "Empress Hot Pot". After repeated experiments and hundreds of trial productions, we finally developed an excellent dumpling feast with excellent aroma, taste, refreshing shape and special taste.
It is said that when Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor took refuge in Xi'an, Cixi felt hungry after watching the Qin Cavity one night, and ordered the imperial kitchen to make a supper that she had never eaten before. The chef was well aware of the empress's seclusion, so he dug his mind out and used chicken as a filling to make pearl dumplings the size of a little thumb, and cooked chicken soup in a hot pot.
In the night, the burning flames are constantly beating, just like the blooming chrysanthemums competing for glory and color. Therefore, it is also called "chrysanthemum hot pot". Each small bowl contained three, six or nine, Cixi was puzzled, and the chef laughed: "Take the meaning of three six nine and go up", Cixi Dayue.
Empress Dowager Cixi witnessed this scene, and then looked at the ingenious "pearl" dumplings in the bowl, and after being happy, she ate three dumplings in a row and drank two mouthfuls of soup, and the eunuch standing next to her could not help but be secretly surprised. The "Empress Dowager Hot Pot" dumplings got their name from this.
![Empress Dowager Cixi's much-appreciated delicacy "Empress Dowager Hot Pot Dumplings"[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)