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== Introduction ==
'''Chongqing food''' covers the dishes, snacks, noodles, ingredients and eating traditions associated with Chongqing Municipality. Two well-known entry points are Chongqing hot pot and Chongqing noodles. Food traditions across Chongqing also connect with the wider Ba-Shu and Sichuan culinary region: the national heritage record for Sichuan cooking identifies both present-day Sichuan and Chongqing as its core area.<ref name="ich-sichuan">[https://www.ihchina.cn/project_details/23586/ Sichuan Cooking Techniques], China Intangible Cultural Heritage Digital Museum.</ref>


Yu cuisine, also called Chongqing cuisine, is mainly consisted of Bayu dishes with clear flavor style differentiated orderly, which focuses on spicy, hot, fresh, tender and burning and form hundreds of dishes with hundreds of flavor by using different combination of them and is very popular.
== Chongqing hot pot ==


[[File:Chongqing Food.jpg|frameless|center|Chongqing Food]]
Chongqing hot pot is a defining local food tradition and a subject of local heritage documentation. The Chongqing Local Chronicles Office describes hot pot as a representative food of the city and records its municipal intangible-heritage listing. Claims about a single inventor or precise origin date should be included only when historical evidence supports them; popular origin stories should be labeled as such.<ref name="cq-hotpot">[https://dfz.cq.gov.cn/zqlswh/rwby_417819/202412/t20241219_13907530.html Chongqing Hot Pot], Chongqing Local Chronicles Office.</ref>


== History ==
== Chongqing noodles ==


The characteristic of Chongqing cuisine is brave to innovate and fit to a variety of people’s requirement. In the Early Republic of China, “Tao Le Chun” restaurant can host a high-level sea cucumber banquet. "Liu Chun Wo" and "Jiu Hua Yuan" have the capacity to make more than 200 tables of large-scale barbecue, shark fin and Ching and Han dynasty royal feast. Cordyceps militaris duck, fritillaria hen, bamboo ginseng pigeon eggs, roast suckling pig and so on were firstly created in Chongqing. At the same time, low-end restaurants that serve steamed meats with rice flower, steam port with preserved vegetables, braised pig large intestines and tofu pudding are also large area distributed in Chongqing. Because of the rich aquaculture products, Chongqing chefs are good at cooking fishes; the excellent ones of which are dry-roasted rock carp, silver carp, braised shark’s fins with minced chicken, pickled squid and so on.
Chongqing noodles (重庆小面) are another everyday food tradition associated with the municipality. The Chongqing Local Chronicles Office discusses Chongqing noodles as a widely enjoyed local staple. Styles, toppings and seasoning vary among individual bowls and vendors.<ref name="cq-noodles" /><ref name="cq-noodles">[https://dfz.cq.gov.cn/zqlswh/ntcp/202311/t20231102_12511049.html Chongqing Noodles], Chongqing Local Chronicles Office.</ref>


During the Anti-Japanese War of 1930s, Chongqing, as the wartime capital of China, a large number of government officials and businessmen poured into Chongqing. A group of skilled chefs brought their own specialty dishes, but also made bold innovations to local folk dishes. Chongqing cuisine is based on this local cuisine, integrates various cooking techniques, and gradually develops and forms a representative cuisine with local characteristics.
== Food by district and area ==


== Currently ==
Chongqing’s districts have their own food identities. [[Wanzhou Food]] is a district-level example associated with Wanzhou grilled fish, gege and local noodles. Other district or town pages should be added when sources support a similarly distinct food record.


Chongqing city has developing continuously after becoming a province-level municipality. Yu cuisine has become a brilliant sparkling star among a variety of cuisines. Current Yu cuisine is more of spirit to advocate local culture and innovation and to improve continuously, and becomes a mainstream all over China.
== Relationship to Sichuan food ==


== Culture ==
Chongqing has its own municipality page in the [[Chinese Food Map]]. Its culinary history also overlaps with Sichuan cooking; the national heritage record for Sichuan cooking explicitly includes Chongqing in the tradition’s present-day core area. This wiki links Chongqing and Sichuan food pages rather than treating them as mutually exclusive categories.<ref name="ich-sichuan" />
 
Yu cuisine focuses on spicy, hot, fresh, tender and burning and form hundreds of dishes with hundreds of flavor by using different combination of them and is very popular.
 
== Specialty ==
 
Chongqing specialties: hot pot seasoning, peculiar flavor of walnuts, the crunchy rice candy, Golden Horn beef jerky, translucent beef slice, Hechuan peach slices, Yongchuan preserved salted black bean, Zhongxian sufu, Fengjie navel orange etc.
 
== Famous Food ==
 
[[Suan Cai Yu]]
 
[[Chong Qing Hot Pot]]
 
[[Laziji]]
 
[[Chongqing Noodles]]
 
[[Kong Fan]]
 
== Street Food ==
 
[[Suan La Fen]](酸辣粉)
 
[[Bo Bo Chicken]](钵钵鸡)
 
[[Shengjianbao]](生煎包)
 
 
For further reading, see the English Wikipedia overview.<ref name="wp">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing English Wikipedia]</ref>
 
== See also ==
* [[Grilled Fish]]
* [[Hot Pot]]
* [[Suan Cai Yu]]


== Related pages ==
* [[Chinese Food Map]]
* [[Sichuan Food]]
* [[Wanzhou Food]]
* [[Chong Qing Hot Pot]]
* [[Chong Qing Hot Pot]]
* [[Chongqing Noodles]]
* [[Chongqing Noodles]]
* [[Guizhou Food]]
* [[Hubei Food]]
* [[Hunan Food]]
* [[Sichuan Food]]
* [[Chinese Candy]]
* [[Chinese Food Map]]


== References ==
== References ==
 
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Revision as of 12:38, 25 September 2026


Chongqing food covers the dishes, snacks, noodles, ingredients and eating traditions associated with Chongqing Municipality. Two well-known entry points are Chongqing hot pot and Chongqing noodles. Food traditions across Chongqing also connect with the wider Ba-Shu and Sichuan culinary region: the national heritage record for Sichuan cooking identifies both present-day Sichuan and Chongqing as its core area.[1]

Chongqing hot pot

Chongqing hot pot is a defining local food tradition and a subject of local heritage documentation. The Chongqing Local Chronicles Office describes hot pot as a representative food of the city and records its municipal intangible-heritage listing. Claims about a single inventor or precise origin date should be included only when historical evidence supports them; popular origin stories should be labeled as such.[2]

Chongqing noodles

Chongqing noodles (重庆小面) are another everyday food tradition associated with the municipality. The Chongqing Local Chronicles Office discusses Chongqing noodles as a widely enjoyed local staple. Styles, toppings and seasoning vary among individual bowls and vendors.[3][3]

Food by district and area

Chongqing’s districts have their own food identities. Wanzhou Food is a district-level example associated with Wanzhou grilled fish, gege and local noodles. Other district or town pages should be added when sources support a similarly distinct food record.

Relationship to Sichuan food

Chongqing has its own municipality page in the Chinese Food Map. Its culinary history also overlaps with Sichuan cooking; the national heritage record for Sichuan cooking explicitly includes Chongqing in the tradition’s present-day core area. This wiki links Chongqing and Sichuan food pages rather than treating them as mutually exclusive categories.[1]

Related pages

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sichuan Cooking Techniques, China Intangible Cultural Heritage Digital Museum.
  2. ↑ Chongqing Hot Pot, Chongqing Local Chronicles Office.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chongqing Noodles, Chongqing Local Chronicles Office.
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