Hotpot, noodles & dough dishes 火锅、粉面与面点

Compare shared hotpots, wheat and rice noodles, dumplings, and selected bread or rice-cake dishes. Ordinary soups appear under Regional cuisines.

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Chongqing

Wanzhou Zhajiang Noodles 万州炸酱面

Wanzhou Zhajiang Noodles (万州炸酱面) are noodles with a cooked minced-meat topping. Writer Li Xiao (李晓) remembers a particularly hands-on version at the Song family noodle shop in the old town of Wanzhou (万州), where the meat sauce and chilli seasoning were prepared separately.

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AI illustration: A bowl of broad rustic wheat or oat dough ribbons and short handmade pasta pieces.
Chongqing

Quilt-Sheet Wide Noodles 铺盖面

Quilt-Sheet Wide Noodles (铺盖面) are a noodle soup from Rongchang (荣昌), Chongqing, named because each piece of dough is pulled so wide that it looks like a quilt (铺盖).

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AI illustration: A plain bowl and plate of soft pale folded dumplings with thin dough skins and visible pleats.
Chongqing

Fengdu Wontons 丰都抄手

Fengdu Wontons (丰都抄手) include a pungent local preparation served in hulake (糊辣壳) soup. In Fengdu (丰都), these small dumplings can also share a meal with noodles, a combination known as yuanyang mian (鸳鸯面).

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Chongqing

Yunyang Baomian Wontons 云阳包面

Yunyang Baomian Wontons (云阳包面) are the pork-filled wontons of Yunyang County (云阳县), Chongqing. Elsewhere these are known as huntun (馄饨) or chaoshou (抄手); in Yunyang everyone calls them baomian (包面).

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