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Chongqing Shiqimen Huoguo

Chongqing

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Chongqing Shiqimen Huoguo

This restaurant is proof that long queues out front are often an indicator of delicious food served inside. Offering a wide range of broths and ingredients, the hotpot restaurant offers a chance to cook a dish that most suits your taste.

Dining

As a branch of Sichuan cuisine, the one of Chongqing is known to have chili pepper and bean paste as two of its key dish ingredients. There are many different types of flavors, but the predominant one is the numbingly spicy. Chongqing is the hometown of hotpot, a continuously simmering spicy broth, in which the diners cook an assortment of meat and vegetables themselves. Restaurants are usually open until 10:00pm.

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