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Chongqing celebrates its signature cuisine with hotpot festival
Updated: 2020-10-19
By Tan Yingzi and Deng Rui in Chongqing, chinadaily.com.cn
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The 12th China (Chongqing) Hotpot and Food Culture Festival features exhibits, like this giant hotpot cultural wall, which is made of three tons of hotpot seasoning. It depicts the origin and development of Chongqing hotpot with beef tallow carvings, on Oct 16, 2020. [Photo by Deng Rui for chinadaily.com.cn] |
The weekend's three-day hotpot festival in Chongqing is expected to draw over 100,000 people, the organizing committee said.
More than 300 hotpot brands and 1,000 industry chain merchants from all over the country are participating in the 12th China (Chongqing) Hotpot and Food Culture Festival. The festival celebrating the city's famous spicy cuisine opened Friday and closes Sunday and is being held under strict epidemic prevention and control, the committee said.
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