This local Chongqing hotpot was a delicious challenge for sure 👍 we enjoyed chatting with the locals and experiencing the real Chongqing

It's not in Chinese culture to offer help when the stranger is not in obvious need. You can always ask a bit loudly "can anyone help me". If by chance someone speaks English he will stand out and help.

两个小老外真猛啊，好歹点个鸳鸯锅，这不辣翻天

I will make a suggestion for your next hotpot experience. You should keep the broth boiling at all times. Not at high boil, but medium boil with bubbling on the surface. The broth will evaporate along the way, the server will periodically come fill it up for you. Also, depending on how you like your steak normally, if you can eat a median steak with a bit of pink, then you probably don't want to cook your meat to dead. For beef and lamb, when the broth is boiling, which it should be at all times, your beef or lamb slices should be cooked in about 15 - 20 seconds. Keep moving it in the pot. The key is to do 1 slice at a time, hold on to it with your chipsticks or in the mesh skimmer. Never let it get out of sight. Cook it until it is pink, that's it. Just use your own judgement based on how cooked you normally like it. Trust me, the meat will be so tender and juicy. You will be in heaven. 😋 Happy hotpoting! 😄

我是中国人，我去重庆旅行的时候吃重庆火锅辣到我了。太辣了，我喝了很多牛奶🤣🤣🤣You are very brave.

Cucumbers are eaten raw to relieve the spiciness and do not need to be placed in hot pot. Eating hot pot, drinking beer, can also reduce the spiciness. As long as Chinese people are not from Sichuan and Chongqing, they usually choose Double-flavor hot pot, and dare not order pure spicy food.

So nice of the restaurant employee to offer you a lower level of spice. They cared about you and your experience even though it would have cost them more. You guys have been so nice to the locals and so open minded. Really enjoy watching your adventure.

Each province in China has its own unique culture and cuisine, and even different types of hot pot. In my hometown of Jilin Province, you can taste different cuisines. I look forward to your exploration.

The tradition of eating spicy food is based on geographic reason, and spicy cuisine helps eliminate the negative effects of high humidity in your body. 😊

There is quite a bit of knowledge required to enjoy hotpot properly. While I hope a local can guide you through it, I applaud your spirit of exploration.

Next time you eat Chongqing hot pot, I recommend ordering Yuanyang hot pot. The Yuanyang Hotpot is half spicy and half non-spicy, which gives the palate a break.

I would like to give you a suggestion, if you choose to eat hot pot next time, you must order "Gadobao"“加多宝”， this is a kind of herbal tea drink, can relieve the pain brought by chili, better than milk.

I'm sweating just watching you eat

love the way u said mixture of pain and pleasure. That's the killing part for hotpot lovers!

Sichuan hotpot and Chongqing hotpot are generally the same, so the dipping sauces are similar as well. The most basic recipe in Chongqing includes minced garlic, MSG, and sesame oil. In Sichuan, the basic ingredients are usually minced garlic, oyster sauce, and sesame oil. Other ingredients can be added according to personal preference. So next time when you have hotpot, just make sure the basic three ingredients are correct.

Tomorrow morning will be a big challenge for you guys, good luck😆

I heard eating spicy food helps your body fight against cancer and prevent cancer development. spicy food also helps you to prevent getting infection, and actually imrpove your digestion.

Hotpot HERE WE GO ! ! !

Three provinces in China where food is the spiciest (not in particular order): Sichuan, Hunan, and Jiangxi. I love Hunan spice the most, it's just straight hot. You can try to find some Hunan restaurants in any province in China.

Chongqing hot pot is all about offals so it's very hardcore, but it may be a little bit weird for foreigners haha. We usually order dishes like duck intestine, chicken stomach, beef tripe, pork blood, pork kidney, beef or pork aorta etc and most of them only need like 10 seconds of cooking😋

There is sesame oil in your bowl. The cooked ingredients should be fully dipped in sesame oil, which will allow some capsaicin to dissolve in the sesame oil and it will not be particularly spicy.

Watching your video at America now and is made me feels like having hotpot with my friends back in China ❤ thank you guys for sharing this! And hope you guys have fun traveling China 🇨🇳

areK so delicious! My hometown Chongqing, you find the right place, authentic hotpot places are in the residential area.

I feel it in my gums. .I feel like I am eating fire. Haven't laughed so hard in a while. U guys are troopers!

I‘m a Chongqinger living in the Europe, your videos of CQ really made me feel homesick! Just keep exploring China and enjoy all the experiences. Bon voyage!

Some hotpot restaurants offer an option to order different kind of base soups, i normally order1 spicy and the other just plain broth base soup

Hi， bro ！👍👍👍👍👍👍

Whether hot pot is delicious or not, the dipping sauce is very important

The irony is: So so Spicy but One More Mouthful and another and another .........

Vinegar can significantly reduce the stinging sensation caused by peppers

Great video like usual!

中国人只要不是川渝地区的，一般都是选鸳鸯锅，不敢点纯辣的。你们太猛了😂

It would have been an intense experience the next morning, I'm sure you both had a ring of fire😅😅

Yes, most foreign travelers can't stand Chongqing's spicy hot pot, but it's really delicious and well worth the travel experience.

When eating hot pot, be sure to add vinegar and drink milk to offset the spiciness. Never drink Coke or Sprite, the more you drink, the spicier it becomes. Some people say garlic is spicy, but when eating noodles, if you mix garlic with noodles, it will not be spicy.

wow! really happy to see u guys try Chongqing local hotpot. u r really so good to pick this one. that shop its really good taste! so glad to see u guys love Chongqing local hotpot and all ! have fun and welcome again !!!!

It's so nice of you. When people say their English is bad, your response is so wise and kind. Chinese is more difficult for foreigners to translate, however, we can type and input alphabet anyway rather than just rely on picture translation.

You guys are so adventurous LOL. Maybe it's too late but I still want to offer some tips: 1. For someone not super good at eating spicy food, it's better to not put anything that looks red into your dipping sauce because the broth is already very spicy. (That tiny fresh chopped chilli pepper is especially spicy). 2. Cantonese sausage is not a common choice for hotpot in general, but maybe it's popular in Chongqing. Cantonese sausage has a very interesting texture and can appear in a lot of other dishes (like Bao Zai Fan) 3. Yes cucumber is quite common in China. But I feel people enjoy it more when served as a salad rather than a cooked dish. Definitely try 拍黄瓜(smacked cucumber, Chinese cucumber salad) if you come across it. 4. Take care of yourself. You might feel uncomfortable after eating hotpot, not because it's not clean, but because your stomache is not used to such a large amount of very spicy food. 5. Potatoes are common in China, but they are more used as a veggie rather than served as a staple food. 6. I recommend ordering dairy-based drink, that will ease the spiciness. 7. Chongqing and Sichuan hotpot have a lot of interesting organ choices (鹅肠goose intenstine, 黄喉aorta of cow or pig, etc.) Recommend you give it a try if you are OK with organs. 8. Kinda wise to not order leafy veggies with this red-broth only hotpot. It could be bloody spicy as it absorbs insane amount of broth.

Just a little extra info for you guys here. There are quite a number of types of hotpots in China and Sichuan hotpot is definitely among the most popular ones across the nation. As a Chinese from northern part of the country, I personally have never been a big fan of the dipping oil of Sichuan hotpot. But according to the locals, the oil not only add extra flavor to the stuffs you cook in the pot, more importantly it helps ease the spiciness to some extent. (And for people who can't really handle or enjoy the extreme spiciness, me included, they will often choose half-and-half soup base.) I myself would always turn to other dipping options like sesame sauce or vinegar & soy sauce mix. But its just my personal preference I guess. Looking forward to seeing you guys explore other parts of China in the future.

LOL It's fun to watch you guys eat the fiery pot. Interesting that the people there treated you like locals.

One suggestion: if you are ready to eat something too spicy, you can drink a glass of pure milk first to protect the stomach lining. If the food is too spicy, you can drink cold milk, cold soy milk and cold beer or drinks to ease the pain.

Two lovely friends.❤❤I spent the whole evening watching videos about China. 😂👍👍👍Looking forward to the next video update.

Chongqing is perhaps one of the most straightforward local cultures in China. They may seem to be bit too blunt at certain point, but sometimes that could be downright helpful

For Chinese hot pot, sesame paste is #1 basic ingredients.

No wonder you guys are two mad explorers! I dare not to try spicy hot-pot at ChongQing at all! You are brave!

曾经我和朋友，去重庆点过一个“微辣”九宫格火锅。最后辣到需要用水一个一个洗从锅里捞出来的食材才能入口😂 后厨切菜的小哥和老板娘，都露出了神秘的笑容😅

Thank you very much for sharing your experience in China

I love to watch you guys!

​Guangdong sausage can be cooked for a few more minutes, and beef slices are about 10 to 15 seconds. It's better to drink more milk when eating in Chongqing to protect gastrointestinal health.​

The beef in the hot pot restaurant is very fresh, usually from the morning of the same day.

Brave folks. Bravo👏 👏 👏 Yummy, yummy, now I wanna fly back and eat and eat and eat all day all night long... 😋

You two are so brave, even as a Chinese from other region, I don’t think I’ll be brave enough to challenge myself to that spice level 😅

Just watched your video, welcome to China

Hahahahaha....you guys are so funny! Hope you enjoy!

It’s good that you experienced the true local life of where you visit for the first time. Enjoy as far as possible!

Mannn, you are so brave. Try one pot with two different soups, which means half spicy and half, not spicy next time.

You are very brave，“Two mad explorers"!

I can even smell the spiciness from your video but I will try the hotpot 100% the way you did. I feel so lucky you guys tried it out. As usual, thanks for the wonderful video.

Hi, as a local, I'd like to share a tip: when it comes to dipping sauce, people usually go to the seasoning area to mix their own according to their preferences. If you're not sure how to make a delicious one, you can take two or three small bowls and try mixing different spices in each bowl. This way, you'll have 2-3 different flavor sauces that you created yourself. Trust me, this is perfectly okay to do. Good luck.

Younger son, who is now 23, was into seriously spicy food since he was a very very young child. Infant. From what you're describing I think even he would struggle with this. Great video as always.

just wait for a few hours after eating this, the morning after LOL

The canned oil sauce is used to increase the flavor and remove the spicy taste

I think the difference of price is due to different orientation of these two hotpot restaurant. According to decorations of that Chengdu restaurant it seems like upper-intermediate orientation, but this one in Chongqing looks like a more average masses oriented, maybe this is the reason why it's more affordable.

The red pepper you put in the dip is actually the hottest thing in the room, hotter than the hot pot itself😂😂😂

You guys are really brave! By the way, cucumbers are eaten raw and are great for relieving spiciness.

So brave，I can't even eat conventional hotpot in both Chengdu and Chongqing，funny thing is，I'm a 100% chengdu raised local and the legend says we are able to eat fire。Just bravo to try，salute！

Well done you two , very brave 😀

I am sweating when see you guys eating

我中國廣東人，想像得到你們的感受，首先是挑戰重廈的麻辣吃上了又害怕它的麻辣但又愛上它的麻辣，这种又愛又恨又停不下來的感覺，我第一次重慶也这样後來到超市买牛奶酸奶中和一下好多了，但屁股真的受不了火辣辣的，但去重慶我还是要吃，回廣東真的不能吃氣候水土关係吃了喉嚨痛上火

Praise your bravery, brother. I dare not taste so spicy

竟然点纯红锅底哈哈哈 重庆食物对于外地人来说是真的辣，以前直飞回国飞重庆，吃了一次重庆老火锅，结果就是后来我都选择直飞别的城市了。🤣

You are so brave

very impressive and bravo to you two! 😄

I'm glad you tried the Chengdu hotpot first and they made you the dipping sauce in front of you. So when you tried Chongqing hotpot, the dipping sauce was self-service, you had an idea what to do, and you already know to ask the oil. I saw some other youtubers eating hotpot and went to the self serve sauce section just didn't know what to do, and even though the little can of oil was to drink 😅

Chongqing has duck soup, which is not spicy and delicious. I recommend trying it.

looking forword your trip to my homecity Beijing

Bravo! Being from Hunan province, China, where people love pepper just as much as those in Sichuan or Chongqing, I'd like to offer some suggestions. The next time you eat hotpot, you might enjoy ordering some chilled drinks like Sprite or beer. We enjoy the 'burn' and keep eating, sipping on chilled drinks or water when it gets too intense, which makes it the most enjoyable time. Seeing you enjoy hotpot without any drinks, I must give you a thumbs up. I'm looking forward to your next video! I'll consider it part of my preparation for the College English Test-6.🥰

You guys are really -"Two mad explorers", so dare to try the local level of spiciness. You guys really made me laugh & cries throughout the whole video 🤣😝

The authentic hot pot includes tripe, duck intestines, wide noodles, yellow throat, shrimp balls, beef balls, and crispy pork.

since naomi is a fan of pumpkin, i highly recommend a dish named baked pumpkin with salted duck egg yolk or 咸蛋黄焗南瓜 in Chinese.

I am from Tianjin, China, and welcome you to visit China. I wish you a happy visit!❤❤❤

I really like your record! Welcome to China

Usually, I will order some drinks or sweets to "解辣"(help with the spicies). Soymilk, coke, or some local sweet of Sichuan, like "冰粉"(icy-jelly with brown sugar) or “糍粑”(glutinous rice cake with brown sugar). New things like "冰汤圆"(a special ice-cream with bubble, glutinous rice cake and so on) are also very good.

Next time you order hotpot, order a YuanYangGuo which is like Yin and Yang that give you a choice of both spicy and no spicy soup/stew. Good job mate 👍 ❤

✨✨You guys did good. 🙂

第一次就吃怎么辣的，你们俩个勇气可嘉。

so good👍👍👍

下次可以选择番茄火锅，鸳鸯火锅

Actually, many Chinese people are not very receptive to the local hot pot in Chongqing because it is just too spicy and you may feel stomach pain if you eat too much of it. Supposed that the food around Jiangsu and Zhejiang in China might be more friendly, such as Suzhou and Wuxi. People there love sweet dishes.

Hey guys, you need to re-visit Hongyadong again at night when lights on, maybe have a cruise travel along the river as well. Enjoy the coming dragon boat festival, you must have a Zongzi.❤

you both are brave......I can't those that much spice...I'll be asking for cold drink.

You guys can choice one pot with two different soup. Like one is hot & the other is not hot like tomato soup, mushroom soap....

@ Two Mad Explorers, I really admire your adventurous spirit and willingness to go to unchartered waters and try new things/food! Personally, and 'I speak from my personal humble view', as long as acts that are not illegal and immoral, it is always worth trying. Even if we don't like them, at least we tried and know. If we don't try, we might miss out on some 'gems'. Seize the moments while we can!!

I have enjoyed these videos so much…. I laughed so hard watching you eat the hot pot - please only eat that much spice for your enjoyment…again I’ve really loved these videos ❤❤❤❤❤❤

You should order a double-flavor pot (half spicy). I guarantee you'll feel a little uncomfortable when you poop the next day. Great video. Your pronunciation of Chongqing(重庆)and Chengdu( 成都)is very good.

真有勇气，我一个成都人都觉得重庆火锅辣

LOL. You are so brave!

看得出你们两个吃的很开心😄

在中国云贵川渝，口味相同麻辣，但是湖南湖北江西吃辣椒很厉害，陕西，甘肃也不差 建议外国人到中国点鸳鸯火锅

看两位吃火锅把我笑晕了😆