Why did Chaoshan beef hotpot dominate the world?

Chaoshan beef hot pot has a very rich cultural heritage in Chaoshan, which is a representative food in Chaoshan and also a food supported by the masses. Nowadays, even if gourmets are not in Chaoshan, they can taste Chaoshan cuisine and beef hotpot in the local area.

Chaoshan beef hotpot was first produced in Chaoshan, during the Republic of China. At that time, beef hot pot was not called hot pot. It's called a beef stove. Add some sand tea to the broth at the bottom of the pot, then add beef and cook thoroughly with charcoal fire. People who like to eat heavier can dip in a little Chili sauce with red oil. Shantou beef stove was quite famous in the southeast coastal area at that time.

The clear soup beef hot pot popular in Chaoshan became the mainstream in the 1980s. Unlike sand tea soup, clear soup hot pot pays great attention to the tenderness of meat. Some gourmets think that beef cattle should be served on the table within four to six hours after slaughter. So in Chaoshan area, basically within eight kilometers, there is at least one live cattle slaughter area. Compared with Chongqing hotpot, Chaoshan hotpot is more "fresh".

The promotion of beef hot pot, if nothing unexpected, will emphasize that the source of beef is yellow cattle. In fact, yellow cattle is only a rough definition relative to buffalo, including Shandong Luxi yellow cattle, Shaanxi Qinchuan yellow cattle and the common yellow cattle with high peaks in the south, but the so-called hybrid cattle have the highest frequency. Hybrid breeds are mainly big cattle breeds with high slaughter rate, such as Simmental cattle, Limousin cattle and Angus cattle. Generally speaking, the suitable slaughter age of beef cattle is 24 months old, but there are also 16 ~ 18 months old. Chaoshan beef, from the slaughterhouse to the table of the hot pot restaurant, usually takes less than four hours, and the whole journey is below normal temperature, so as to ensure that the freshest beef will not be missed and the taste of the hot pot will be guaranteed.