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= Beef tallow hot pot = Beef tallow hot pot is a kind of hot pot in Chinese foods from Chongqing where is located in the western of China. At first, beef tallow hot pot created by the sailors. In Qing dynasty, beef tallow became a formal foods in Chongqing because of raw materials are easy to get and cheap and fit the local tastes (Because of the humid climate, the local people like to eat spicy food because they think the hot foods will make them healthy). To this day, there are 30 thousand of beef tallow hotpot restaurants in Chongqing, with the spread of hotpot culture, the beef tallow hotpot spread to some other cities in China such as Shandong, Beijing, Shanghai and some other cites.

The source of the beef tallow hot pot

 * Created by the sailors in Chongqing
 * In Qin dynasty, Hui people slaying oxen ashore, and as long as its flesh, bones, skin, but it will be abandoned in the beef offal, sailors pull it back(because sailors are too poor to have enough money to eat meal) after wash in the pan.
 * The sailors add Sichuan pepper, ginger, garlic, spicy and salt, cook and eat, the pioneer beef tallow hotpot be created.
 * The raw material comes from the internal organs that are left after the Hui people slaughter the cattle.

The development

 * Spread to Sichuan and added more local spice.
 * Became a normal food in Sichuan and Chongqing because cheap and fit the local tastes.
 * The reform and opening-up policy has promoted population mobility across the country, beef tallow hotpot spread to the other cites in China.

The oil

 * The beef tallow hot pot use the different hot pot condiment from the other kinds hotpot. In all oil for hot pot, only beef tallow can be attached to the dish, and  because it can absorb the taste of chili and peppercorns when it is fried.
 * There is a thick layer of fat between the beef and the gut, which is used for refining. The beef tallow is recycled, the people in Chongqing called the recycled beef tallow as “old oil”, the cook of the hot pot will filter and cool the base material used in a pot.
 * To prevent beef tallow acid value, after repeated use of the health sector will be beef tallow the acid value of custom between 1 ~ 2 (4 or more overweight), and the “old oil” use will be replaced after a period of time, will not use the “old oil” infinite loop.

The style of beef tallow hotpot

 * The traditional style of beef tallow hot pot is called "jiugong", “jiugong” means Sudoku, the chef splits the hot pot into nine parts by using an iron barrier， people can take some different kinds of foods into each ground and don’t worry about that it will be missing in the pot.
 * Another kind of style of beef tallow hot pot is called “affectionate couple pot” or “yuanyang pot”, the traditional beef tallow hotpot is hot and have many red peppers, some people can’t accept the hot tastes, so the “yuanyang pot” be created. The chef distinguish the pot into two parts, one of the parts is hot another without any peper.