Hot pot, ancient name: antique soup, named after the "grunting" sound made when food is boiled, is an original Chinese delicacy.
It is also a very popular dish on weekdays.
Well, everyone knows "hot pot" but does not know that there is a delicacy called "Empress Hot Pot"
Here's what I'll share with you:
"Empress Dowager Hotpot" is a special dish in Xi'an, which was formerly a late-night snack made by chefs for Empress Dowager Cixi. ——The chef wraps the chicken breast into a small and exquisite pearl dumpling, holds the chicken soup in the pot, brings it to the empress, and cooks it as she eats, and this dumpling is called "empress hot pot".
After years of repeated trial production, the current "Empress Dowager Hot Pot" has developed into a dumpling feast with refreshing color, aroma, taste and shape.
Nowadays, when people eat the queen hot pot, they are cooked and divided by the waiter, and the diners will eat different quantities, each quantity has a special meaning, such as: smooth sailing, double happiness and so on.
Its historical origin is - :
Legend has it that this dish was created when Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor took refuge in Xi'an.
One night Cixi felt hungry after watching the Qin Cavity, so she ordered the imperial chef to make a supper for herself, and the supper must be something she had not eaten, the chef knew Cixi's habits, so he hollowed out his mind to use chicken to make stuffing, made into pearl dumplings the size of a small thumb, cooked with hot pot chicken soup, each small bowl contained three six or nine, after serving the table, the empress dowager looked at the number of dumplings in the bowl, and asked the imperial chef what the meaning was. The chef replied: "Take the meaning of three six nine to go up" Cixi was overjoyed after hearing it, so the "Empress Dowager Hot Pot" was born from then on, and later spread to the folk and became a special cuisine in Xi'an.