Food Hunting | Chongqing (Updating)

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A List of Restaurants You Can‘t Miss

【Traditional Sichuanese Cuisine 】

三味多 San Wei Duo（Master‘s Kitchen of Classic Sichuanese Cuisine）·

· Chef Wu MIngshi (伍明仕) is a real master chef, who has been teaching and training classic sichuanese cuisine since 1980s. Amazing plates aethestic both on visual and cooking skills.
· Tell Chef your group size and budget (150 yuan/pp will be good), group size of 6-10 for the best BANQUET experince. Ingredients are prepared according to chefs arrangements. Walk-in order is never recommend.
· Close to the North Railway Station. distance from city center. A destination restaurant for all professional gastronomist.

尘香 Chen Xiang （Banquet dishes in affordable restaurant）
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渝碚路宴宾楼 Yu Bei Lu Yan Bin Lou Restaurant（Banquet dishes in affordable restaurant）
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老四川酒楼（解放碑洪崖洞店）Lao Sichuan Restaurant（Jie Fang bei Hong Ya Dong Store）（Old brand of Beef dishes）
·Oxtail Soup Stew with Goji berry is signature dish. Cold-eating beef products, such as Dengying beef灯影牛肉, Jingmao Beef精毛牛肉，Fengwei Beef 凤尾牛肉 are all local & classic
·Tips: a chain but please choose this store only.

桌哥下饭菜（观音桥店）Zhuoge Xia Fan Cai （Restaurant rice killing dishes and Chongqing regional Flavor）
·A small chain in Chongqing （4 branches only）, who is able to prepare all chongqing ingredients by themselves. Signature is Twice cooked pork 回锅肉。
·What I recommend is their own made 莽海椒（fermented sticky rice stuffed chili）、鲊肉（fermented rice with pork, which is earlist form of sushi）、鲊海椒 (fermented rice and chili) dishes. Its a regional flavor of east Chongqing, where very close to Hubei & Hunan. its a common Tujia Ethnic 土家族 flavor. Tips: just try two of them are good. or you will feel little “rice powder + fermenting sour” repeat, although they are all tasty.
·if you are really interested in Tujia Ethnic 土家族 flavor, i know some in 石柱，but still looking for a good one in main city.

【Street food & Snacks】

· Chef Ma is trained from Xiaobinlou 小滨楼, which is the best street snack store in Chongqing since 1980s.
· Try Soup dumplings, Pot stikers and Dandan/Sujiao/Jiangya(ginger & duck spicy) noodles. All are tasting size.
· Not all-day service, confirm time before you go.

赵伍面庄 Zhaowu Noodle Shop 【Chongqing Xiaomian重庆小面 & Pea Paste & Minced Pork Noodle & Beef Noodle牛肉面】
· Chef Zhaowu is recongized as “the god of noodle” in Chongqing (according to some noodle lovers perspective). Several Branches are set by his family member and provide recipes from him.
· I tried the Yuekejun约克郡 Branch. But foodies are recommend the 吉祥苑 branch，where Chef Zhaowu himself works and 松石大道 Branch where his son in charge of the flaovrs

【Hotpot】

肆味 Siwei Hotpot（Luxury style hotpot）
·The hotpot broth recipe is designed for the owner himself, which means a high requirement on all ingredients.
·The only hotpot serves different wagyu cuts in Chongqing
·Special Select furniture & tablewares and great great Yangzi River (night) view. My choice if I want host best friend who is going to visit Chongqing.

艾嬢七八九老火锅 Ainiang 789 Hotpot（Hotpot Mama’s street style store）
·A brand from 1987 and the owner Ainiang (艾嬢) is respected as Hotpot Mama for hotpot skill training. Lots of popular brand owner are her students nowadays.
·still prepare beef tallow broth by hand craft every 5-6 days （i sneaked into her kitchen and watched the whole process by chance）

枇杷园食为鲜火锅 Pi Pa Yuan Shi Wei Xian Hotpot (The world largest hotpot store) & 鲜龙井火锅大观园 Xian Long Jing Huo Guo Da Guan Yuan
·800 hundred tables of Pi Pa Yuan are set along a mountain slope, able to host 6000 people at the same time.
·Recommend for a glance at Pi Pa Yuan and Choose Xian Long Jing for dining experience, including traditional courtyard enviroment and some speical local performance, eg, Molten Iron Fireworks show。
·Both are a little distance from city center.

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【Want Tea, Ingredients and Spicies】

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万戈干副批发市场 Chongqing Wan Ge Tea, Spice & Dry Goods Wholesale Market·
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重庆凯恩国际家居名都Chongqing Kai En Hotel and Restaurant Goods Wholesale Market.
·If you want buy some ceramic plates, bowls, dishes for your restaurant or studio, there are some good brand here. My chef friends recommended me 良沅陶瓷(Liang Yuan Ceramic)/有锅有碗(Woks and Bowls) shop there. But you can walk in any interested shop in that market .