Chaotian pot

Verse "In the middle of the seven collections in the second row, the people on the banks of the Bailang River are like mountains." The cold snow is turning red, and the water incense pot is facing the sky", which refers to the traditional food Chaotian pot in Laowei County (Weifang) in Shandong Province. Chaotian pot originated from the private morning market during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and the origin of chaotian pot is related to Zheng Banqiao. At that time, when Zheng Banqiao was governing Weifang, he was very concerned about the suffering of the people. Weixian Daji as a place for agricultural trade exchange, the scale is particularly large, the market is located in Dongguan, the city between the Bailang River beach, in addition to the flood of June, three seasons a year, Weixian Daji, red and red; when the market is in full bloom, neighboring Prefectures and counties, are riding horses and donkeys to catch the market, at that time Weixian Daji is the first largest set in Shandong, known as "100,000 people". In 1746, itabashi micro-service rushed to understand the people's feelings, and it became a big problem to see that the people on the big market had eaten more, and some poor people were nibbling on the cold nest in the cold wind, and some were eating cold pancakes in the corner. Therefore, he suggested that the people who sold cooked meat in the market should move the pot to be boiled and sold, and the soup of the boiled meat was given to the people who rushed to the market for free to drink, to solve the problem of people eating cold rice in the market, which was the prototype of the chaotian pot, which later developed into a soup while eating cake roll meat, because it was an open-air pot, the top of the pot was uncovered, and people called it "chaotian pot". Chaotian pot also has several names, one is called chopped pot, most of the elderly over sixty years old are still called chopped pot; and there is another called gluttonous old pot, this name may be that people want to relieve hunger when they go to eat a roll of bread roll meat.

According to the "Weifang Literature and History Materials", "set in the market, the open-air pot, surrounded by a straw foil, the name of the chaotian pot." With the pot table as the table, the eaters sit around the pot and eat the bread roll meat (pork), meatballs, eggs, and drink the soup with a wooden spoon, accompanied by knotty pickles and green onions. "In the chaotian pot, there is usually a whole chicken and pig goods - pig head meat, pig intestines, pork belly, etc. As they eat, customers sit around the pot and the chef scoops hot soup with chopped parsley, chopped green onions, pepper and other condiments. Customers can drink soup for free and eat their own dry food, you can also buy bread roll meat to eat, the types of cake roll meat are: cake roll pork head meat, cake roll pork intestine, cake roll pork belly and so on. Later, chaotian pot moved into the store to operate, and this name was also used. Because of the economical, fragrant, nutritious, convenient, fast and long time after eating the chaotian pot, it is well received by the public, so it has developed to today's long-term prosperity, and "Weifang Chaotian pot" has also become a local famous food.

Weifang Chaotian pot stove supports a large pot with a diameter of 80 cm and a depth of 65 cm, the mouth of the pot is 30 cm higher than the stove table, and it is surrounded by a 30 cm pot table, using coal as fuel. Diners can eat on the stove or, upon request, scoop out the soup in the pot, roll it up in the pan and bring it to the guest's table for guests to taste slowly. The "Chaotian Pot" is fat but not greasy, nutritious, delicious, the soup is light and not turbid, and it is used with soft and powerful pancakes, and its taste is endless.

Chaotian pot ingredients: 1. Pig goods are divided into pig head, pig mouth strips, pig lungs, pig hearts, pig liver, pig intestines, pig belly and so on. 2． Pancakes.

Chaotian pot accessories: green onion, coriander, ginger, star anise, cinnamon, salt, pepper (self-processing), paprika (self-processing), pickle strips (self-processing), etc.

Chaotian pot selection and method is very exquisite, with chicken, donkey meat simmered soup, to cook the pig under the main goods, there are pig head meat, liver, lungs, heart, belly, intestines do not break, must be the intestines turned over to clean, intestines, mouth strips, pig head meat first to use boiling water again, and then put into the old soup pot to cook, the heat to grasp the benefits. After cooking, fish out and cut it for later; roll out the dough cake and put it in the thatched hoard for later; the small ingredients are also very exquisite, the green onion must be cut into short and consistent small pieces, and the pickle knots are cut and then re-mixed and marinated; and then accompanied by minced shallots, coriander, vinegar, pepper, green onion, knotty pickle strips, chili noodles, etc. and Weixian small cold vegetables.