While waiting for the food, Li Xiao took out his mobile phone, opened the tourist attractions app, and found the opening history of this "hot pot skewers shop". There was an explanation of the history of hot pot skewers.
After reading through it, Li Xiao had a general understanding. This hot pot skewers is a replica of hot pot, but some changes have been made in the way of eating. It is more convenient to use skewers. You can directly grab them with your hands, and you can experience hot pot at the same time.
You can experience the texture of grilled skewers, killing two birds with one stone.
Li Xiao said to the audience and fans in the live broadcast room.
"Brothers, I just saw that this restaurant has a long history, and there are many customers coming here to eat. It should be considered a must-try restaurant in Chongqing, right?"
A female fan on the side suddenly interjected: "I checked into this store when I first came to Chongqing. The taste is really good and the portion is large. Since I was eating alone at the time, I was not sure about the taste of this store.
I don’t have many memories, but it was delicious.”
Fans in the live broadcast room gave the answer.
"Anchor, you may not know that this store was formerly a hot pot restaurant. You know how competitive the hot pot restaurants are in Sichuan and Chongqing, so the boss innovated and changed the way of eating hot pot.
It developed into the current hotpot skewers.”
"By the way, this store is an old store, and the owner has never changed. It's just that some investors came later, so the management rights are not entirely in the owner's hands, but the control of the ingredients and taste is still in the hands of the owner."
“The taste of this hot pot skewers is better than that of some hot pot restaurants, and the ingredients are fresh. The most important thing is, as the lady said, the portion is huge.”
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Li Xiao chatted for a few words, then turned his eyes back, took out two fresh large bamboo shoots from the bag on the side, put them on Tuanzi's hand, touched his fluffy little head lovingly, and said
: "Little guy, I see your eyes are straight. Are you hungry? Eat quickly."
It may be that Tuanzi is growing recently. The amount of food he eats has been increasing and his body size has gradually increased. It won't be long before he can grow into a giant panda.
The female fan on the side also stepped forward and touched Tuanzi's head, and soon the two started playing together. As long as it didn't affect the surrounding diners, Li Xiao wouldn't care.
After a while, two handsome-looking male waiters came over carrying a large pot. When they passed by Li Xiao, they smelled a strong aroma of oil from the pot.
Li Xiao ordered the spicy butter pot bottom, which has a special butter aroma, which is very rich and has some spicy flavor, which directly stimulates the taste buds in the mouth and the smell of the nose.
The bottom of the butter pot pays attention to a fragrance, and a layer of grease will be formed on the surface of the bottom of the pot. Only good butter can form this layer of fat. Most synthetic butter does not have this layer, so Li Xiao concluded that this store uses
It's pure butter.
This store is quite practical about the ingredients used, at least it won't fool customers.
The taste of good butter is very different from that of poor butter. Although the two smell similar, the texture in your mouth is still different.
Anyone who regularly eats hot pot can tell the difference, so in Chongqing, any store that cheats on its butter cannot survive.
The two waiters placed the pot in the center of the long table, then turned on the induction cooker and started cooking it over high heat. As soon as it was boiling, the ingredients could be added directly.
As soon as the waiter who carried the pot left, the waiter who served the dishes followed closely behind. There were too many ingredients, so he directly pushed a cart over, filled with ingredients. At first glance, these ingredients were very fresh.
Especially the beef and mutton skewers, the meat looks very bright red, and there is some blood foam on it. It looks like fresh meat that has just been killed.
From these aspects, the impression of this store has directly risen to a higher level in Li Xiao's mind.
He has said in several previous live broadcasts that whether a store is good or not, the taste is second, and the most important thing is the freshness of the ingredients.
These things are for people to eat, and what people eat is a sense of happiness, not inferior things.
Some unscrupulous merchants will always use some messy things to stall diners, which will cause harm to diners. Once the incident is exposed, it will also be a devastating blow to the store.
The fire was boiling for nearly ten minutes, and the bottom of the pot was cut open. Li Xiao picked up a spoon and stirred in the pot, and found that the bottom of the pot was very rich in ingredients.
There were a lot of dried chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns and some aniseed ingredients in it. The aroma was very strong, and there was a hint of spiciness in the air, stimulating his taste buds.
When you see that the bottom of the pot is almost cooked, you can directly put the ingredients on the side into the pot. It is very convenient. After it is cooked, you can eat it directly with a skewer without having to fish it out from the bottom of the pot.
Li Xiao just let the female fans do whatever they want, put some meat skewers on it, and then turned on the fire. According to the waiter, it will be cooked in just a few minutes.
There is actually an order for eating hot pot, that is, put the meat first and then the vegetables, so that the bottom of the pot will absorb the aroma of the meat, which will make the bottom of the pot more mellow, and then cook the vegetables, so that the tops will all be stained
The meat is fragrant and tastes better.
After a while, the skewers in the pot were already cooked. Li Xiao was not polite, picked up a beef skewer and a mutton skewer, and placed it directly in front of the camera in the live broadcast room.
"Brothers, the first pot of skewers has been cooked. You can tell by the red oil on the meat that it is full of spicy flavor. It is said that you don't need to adjust the dipping sauce when eating this skewers. You can just cook it directly.
Just eat it, let’s taste it first.”
The meat on the skewers is coated in spicy red oil, which looks very appetizing. Before you eat it, you can smell the aroma, which is the dual combination of the aroma of meat and butter.
Li Xiao took a light bite, and the juices inside the meat exploded. When it was cooked over high heat, it had already penetrated and completely combined with the meat.
Moreover, the meat is very fresh and tastes very soft and chewy. It is an authentic and good beef.
The spicy flavor at the bottom of the pot arouses the taste buds as soon as it enters the mouth, bringing a double feeling that directly makes Li Xiao want to stop.
When I first took a bite, I thought it was nothing, but the bottom of the pot was very strong. After a while, the spiciness came back directly, but it was not just spicy, but spicy.
Li Xiao nodded slightly and said to the water friends in the live broadcast room: "Brothers, the taste of the bottom of this pot is very good, very layered. When you first eat it, there will be a little bit, and then when you chew the meat, your mouth will be full of it.
It smells like meat, and you can’t taste the spiciness at all, but after you taste it, the spiciness comes back.”
"This spicy flavor has a strong staying power. It can fill your mouth and nasal cavity with this aroma and make you want to stop. So I concluded that the bottom of this pot is pure spicy butter pot bottom."
"Especially the red oil on the surface is not good butter and will not stick to it at all. So the problem is that the hot pot and hotpot dishes you eat in some hot pot restaurants don't get red oil on them."
Chongqing is a big gourmet province. Due to its geographical conditions, the tastes are different. People here prefer spicy food, so everything they eat is spicy.
So in Chongqing, whether something is delicious or not depends on the chili peppers in it. Different types of chili peppers bring different experiences.
The spiciness that Li Xiao experienced in Guizhou before was pure spiciness, with a dry aroma of chili pepper itself, so it didn't taste very strong, but it was very fragrant in the mouth.
The most memorable thing is the plate of modified spicy chicken that Bijie ate. The aroma itself is very rich and you can feel it when you enter the mouth.
The spicy food in Chongqing has a strong aftertaste. When you enter the mouth, there is only the aroma and no spiciness. Once you get the kick up, you can't stop eating it.
The two have their own merits. If Li Xiao had to choose one, he would choose Chongqing's spicy food. This kind of spicy food is very layered, not layer by layer, but a collection of all the spicy food.
together, and then burst out in one breath.
After the female fan on the side ate a few skewers, her small mouth was already red from the spicy food, and she kept fanning her hands to try to relieve the spicy food in her mouth.
Seeing this, Li Xiao quickly asked: "Are you not used to the spiciness? Do you want to change the bottom of the pot for you?"
This spicy butter pot base is the spiciest pot base in this store. Li Xiao has a strong tolerance for this kind of spiciness, and the more he eats, the more he wants to eat it.
The female fan hurriedly waved her hands and said, "It's okay. I just haven't eaten spicy food for a while. Suddenly I ate something so spicy that I can't stand it. Just wait for me to slow down and it will be fine. You can continue to do food tasting."
The female fan was very positive about Li Xiao's previous food tasting, and she really tasted a spicy aftertaste from the bottom of the pot, and it was very good.
When she came here to eat before, she only ordered a mildly spicy spicy pot, but it didn't taste like anything, so she wanted to try a spicier pot this time.
It won't slow down for a while.
Li Xiao quickly asked the waiter to bring iced milk and put it in front of the female fan, and then continued to do food tasting.
"Brothers, the female fans just couldn't stand the spiciness, so I will change the bottom of the pot later, otherwise, so many ingredients will be wasted."
Then Li Xiao ordered a clear soup pot and placed it on the other side of the bottom of the pot, so that female fans could switch back and forth and eat the bottom of the clear soup pot if they couldn't stand the spiciness.
Li Xiao continued to eat some meat and tasted it carefully. Most of the comments he gave were that it tasted good, spicy enough, and fragrant. The evaluation was very high.
Some fans and viewers in the live broadcast room posted comments one after another.
"Seeing the anchor eating such spicy food, I really can't stand it while I'm at work. I won't care. When I get off work later, I'll go eat hot pot skewers and have a good spicy time."
"Tsk tsk, why do I drool every time I see an anchor eating spicy food? But when I eat it myself, I can't eat spicy food. I really don't understand myself."
"I'm the kind of person who loves food and food. I didn't expect that hot pot skewers would be described as a delicacy by the anchor. I've eaten them so many times and haven't tasted the taste of them. It's really in vain.
I am from Chongqing."
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Li Xiao glanced at the barrage in the live broadcast room and selected a few questions to answer. This is his live broadcast habit.
Every time when tasting food, there will always be fans asking questions, and then asking some questions about food, to which Li Xiao naturally answers all questions.
"This hot pot is all about one ingredient. Some hot pots look spicy but are not actually spicy. This has a lot to do with the butter in it."
"This butter is a kind of animal oil. This oil is different from vegetable oil. It can stimulate the flavor of chili very well. However, the butter used in some hot pot restaurants on the market is synthetic oil. It looks oily, but it tastes fishy.
It doesn't taste spicy at all, because it doesn't stimulate the aroma of chili pepper."
"This hot pot skewers restaurant uses authentic butter, and before making the bottom of the pot, a little fried dried chili is put in to bring out all the aroma of the chili, so that a base flavor can be left in the pot."
After hearing this, fans in the live broadcast room asked questions one after another, expressing that they did not understand the explanation.
"Anchor, aren't some hot pot bases in hot pot restaurants made of semi-finished products? Why use butter to fry dried chili peppers? Isn't this superfluous? And now there are many businesses outside that produce hot pot bases, and some of them are
Use this ready-made.”
"Yes, I've eaten at many hot pot restaurants. Most of them are made with semi-finished seasonings. Only a few of them make their own. The brine hot pot seems to be one of them."
"Anchor, if you put it this way, are the businesses that produce hot pot bases cutting corners on the oil they use? So it doesn't taste very spicy?"
Faced with these questions, Li Xiao put down the string in his hand, wiped his lips with a tissue, and explained one by one.
"Brothers, I can't say much about the issues you just mentioned. After all, the manufacturers of hot pot bases make them based on the tastes of consumers, so the taste is more popular and not very spicy, but I can't say that the oil used is
not good."
"It's just that some businesses choose semi-finished seasonings for convenience and to cater to public tastes. This can indeed save costs and time to a certain extent, but it is not competitive in terms of taste."
"Everyone knows that this is Chongqing, which is a big province of hot pot restaurants. No matter which street you go to, you can see a hot pot restaurant, so the convolution is very serious. If you want to stand out from the same hot pot restaurants, you must...
It has a big advantage in terms of taste.”
“Let’s take this hot pot skewers restaurant as an example. The pot base of this restaurant is very unique and very spicy, which has a big advantage in terms of taste. In my opinion, the biggest advantage of this restaurant is the ingredients.
Freshness is what any diner hopes for, and this restaurant achieves it, so it can be full.”
After answering these questions, Li Xiao continued to join the food-eating industry. In a short time, all the meat on the table was eaten.
Li Xiao asked the female fan if she wanted some meat, and the latter chose vegetables.
The soup base of the hot pot has been boiled with meat, and there is already a meaty aroma mixed in it. Now is the best time to add vegetables.
