World's SPICIEST Hot Pot in China's Ultra-Modern City
$100 a night in China gets you this absolutely insane room this feels like the end of the world guys we've come off the bridge and now we're all walking through like the central like Motorway system been waiting 2 hours now and there're still 30 tables ahead of us that spicy right well let's get out of this train station and into chongqing home of China's spiciest food and most futuristic city I thought we could take one of them luxurious Chinese electric vehicles to our luxury hotel you're fancy hey so in China you can use an app called Didi which is a bit like Uber or grab and uh you can select this extra layer at the bottom it's like the luxury vehicles and uh you want to go luxury or like extra Luxury? The best I want I want to be the best I want to be in China's finest car I want to be in the passenger seat of a Lamborghini where am I going to sit you can sit in the boot which you like be in the front and to get out you just scan your passport once again there go check your passport and there we go I'm in I'm out I'm free I'm free confused by this one it says it's an airport. Crickey, but the time flew by but... that woman's wearing a face mask but it's like her entire face looks like Zoro. right okay let's uh now these Transportation hubs they tend to have sections that say E-Hailing, which is where you go specifically to pick up Uber or in our case a DIDI ride e-hailing car yeah e-hailing e-hailing okay e-hailing it sounds like a famous actor staring e-hailing all right uh we can exit different ones that's exit North uh long distance bus uh cricket I don't know I mean it says ride healing just open Ride healing car yeah so this one oh I guess these people are waiting thank you very much yeah these people are waiting for their family and friends to arrive there's a whole heap of massage chairs over there so you can get a nice massage while you wait for your for your friends to arrive look at these policemen just kind of stood on a some sort of pedestal with a riot shield and a some sort of Grabber right uh upstairs I guess think so yeah right, cricket its a maze just getting out of here. those sticks that the guards carry around I don't know if I've mentioned it they're my favorite thing in the whole world they're hilarious they like really long sticks with a little Grabber on the on the end so I can like reach if and far away and just grab you around the waist and keep you there prod you away I don't know if it give you a little electric shock like a taser or something I don't know I wouldn't want to find out hilarious I've never seen them in any other country these weird pincher things all right let's get ourselves in one of China's most luxury vehicles to one of chongqing's luxury hotels Life of Riley we are having today, I love it don't make me go back please we got, we'll be back on the bottom class South Asian trains in no time don't worry I know you miss it look how many people are waiting for the e-hailing cars wow, sorry, sorry, thank you just need to cross over here so all these cars are white but the car that we're getting is a black one now we did try to book the best the highest quality most luxurious car but there's not available bit of a rarity so we've gone for the second highest class which is still the executive option here, the thing is as well they come really quick like we've just booked it and uh unlike you know on Uber and stuff or grab in Southeast Asia and you're waiting for ages in China cuz obviously such a huge population they have a lot of these taxi drivers and DiDi drivers oh this is us there we go 838 wow that looks nice it's like a Chinese Maserati maser-uh where's he going oh friend, friend come back oh he's going around crickey we've got to, we got to catch him we got to catch him. Friend don't
go any further come back my friend bloody hell hes gone he's all the way down there that's no good he's gone he's just nicked off what are we going to do with that I don't know what I'm going to do now um that was strange [laughter] im sure he would have just stopped. I don't know what to say everyone else is just stopping here getting their passengers literally don't know what to say there he didn't even attempt to pick us up he's just going to pretend that we're in his car and he's he going to have a quiet Drive um it say he's not going to be here for 11 minutes that's a joke that. he's just he's just drove out of this place and now it says that he's going to drive all the way back into this complex it's going to take him 11 minutes to get back here uh what a nightmare. all right take two of getting in our Chinese Maserati look at it
it's got a typical Maserati front on there you can see. hello hello so what is it it's a I don't know that's the brand of the car. put our bags in the boot maybe okay okay , thank you, thank you oh hes wearing a nice suit very professional okay wow look at this okay, thank you, close the door for you, look at this, some water there there we go there (man speaks in chinese) thank you, please put on your seatbelt, yes, hes english speaking hey this is all about look at all this leg room I've got here some information stuff some tissues very nice very comfortable luxury DiDi experience with a nice armrest we're going to have a little conference meeting here so uh what do you think about q1. uhm I feel like mr president president
of Newcastle look how far awat the station it's all the way over wow and it's a very misty gloomy day looks like we're still quite a little bit away from the uh from the famous center of the city where everybody wants to see but uh we'll be there shortly but for now it's on a nice relaxing drive in this very smooth electric vehicle almost as smooth as a bullet train look at that, thank you there we go, we got everything? yeah and here we are in the megatropolis of Chongqing, thank you what a nice polite driver we had here thank you so much goodbye bye-bye thank you well I guess our hotel is in one of these buildings surrounded by dance clubs live music bars street food and this huge Skyline this is what Chongqing is all about but wait till you see it at night right let's try and find our hotel which might be a little bit tricky 186 huh 186 right let's find out how we get to our hotel there is security 15th floor 15th yeah 15th floor right okay here we go look lifts here already for us perfect okay okay let's check into this luxury chongqing Hotel it looks nice already hello, reservation? checkin, thank you looks like it's called the freely smart Hotel whatever that means there's a telescope over here look at this guys i wonder if this telescopes usable it is but I need to do some fine tuning I can see strangely guys I don't know if you can see in there or not but it's actually uh pointing at somebody's apartment building you see that there so somebody's been trying to spy through somebody's apartment building that's just uh come a bit of privacy here. what a bunch of weirdos there right well that telescope there set perfectly to look at somebody's apartment building window someone's been uh perving out in the reception foyer thank you, you got to take a picture of you and me okay thank you very much okay oh she's going to take us to the room already ah thank you, follow her well I guess we're on this floor 153 freely smart Hotel $100 a night in China gets you this absolutely insane room look at this nice big bed it's like a proper king size if not even bigger with we got a lovely couch here that we can enjoy the view of these flowers we've got two I don't know what what are these futons just like an addition Lounge additional couches how about this eh it's fancy and here is one of the views of the legendary chonging Skyline have a little bit look out there look at that eh well now it's a nice River and all but it's not quite the tyne is it what else what they're doing down there you see all those people in the dirt what oh yeah looking for crabs maybe looking for crabs to put in the chongqing Hot Pot guys and this is the prize of it all look at this free standing bath how about that eh you can look out at the Skyline in your freestanding bath and with this unbelievable view here how about that eh not just one window two windows full panoramic views of both sides of this incredible Skyline oh what's this bedside uh console what we got here chandelier what there's no chandelier what's that about laser light laser light we're going to have a party in here oh this is all fancy isn't it sleep mode viewing mode wake up mode Leisure mode I think sleep mode it must close the curtains yeah look at that eh wow how about this you want to have a nice good Kip then get them curtains closed like that right and then if you put the laser light on I think these fellas up here will turn on hey look at that a lazer light and then we got way, not bad at all there wake us up would you aye let there be light once again right what we got here we' got a nice little sitting area beside this big room which is I don't know what do I do what do I do here are you sure that's the entrance oh right around here ah it's a big window right there's your toilet oh look what we've got here how about this let's get this light on toilet lamp toilet lamp I see any lamp on look but look at this guys finally we are back amongst civilized people with the Japanese toilet that's what you need what is this why is there an SOS button crickey i've eaten too much hot pot send help too much chongqing spicy food SOS look at this this is what's all about guys we've you know we've been spoiled by Japanese toilets and bum guns of Thailand Etc and we've come to China and it's just like being back home in the west where you just get toilet paper and nothing else so this is going to come as a nice uh nice treat nice uh bidet all of your different uh options here your water pressure you can have the water pulsating at you you can have it warm you know you can have it cold you can change how strong it is you can move the actual uh bidet forwards and backwards for more accuracy that's what it's all about is it and then this giant walk-in shower how about that eh big rainfall shower personal shower and we've got some shower products some shampoo conditioner and body soap I do have a complaint what is your complaint it said it came with the TV right and I plan on watching the soprano ah and there's no TV there no TV but there's a projector up there oh I can't reach that oh what does that do up down there's a projector crickey I don't know how I'm going to connect my computer to that though it looks like the router is hanging from it and all well the same oh there you go there's a remote for it turn it on first maybe oh It beeped this is what it's all about guess I we are living the High Life look at this guys you want to watch your film you get that projector down curtains closed and you can get your film on shut out the Metropolis behind and you put The Sopranos on in 70in screen tell you what well looks like it needs a little bit of assistance no problem I'll help you don't worry we're not all perfect right i dont know what to say it doesn't get better than this does it I wish we were here for a month this is how I want to live now but at $110 a night I don't think could quite pay for a month stay here as far as luxury hotels go this is uh a serious level of luxury for $100 a night just had a ring on the door there open it and it's one of the staff from the hotel and they've said welcome here's some chongqing afternoon tea now I'm looking at it here and it looks very different to afternoon tea that uh that we all know from England and whatnot so I'm not sure if afternoon tea is a thing here or if it's just an entirely different thing but I'm going to enjoy it with this uh lovely view of the city here but uh yeah let's have a little look at what they' provided so what have we got here this looks like some sort of jelly or but it's not very soup not quite sure on what that is really have no idea I can not about any of this stuff fruit I've never seen a fruit like that before so I'm very unsure on that then we've got some french bread yeah mini French bread okay well that's easy enough and then we've got this vacuum sealed slightly uh mushy vacuum sealed I don't know maybe it's like tofu or something like that and then then we've got some looks like some sort of cake like a Milky cake that looks quite nice nice texture this I have had before this is like a puffed wheat um I don't know it's like a it's hard to explain but it's kind of like a it's like a rice krispy bar if the if the Rice Krispies were like bigger and fluffier yeah but these are nice I've had these before the hotel in Beijing gave us these but um and then that is just a I don't know I don't know what that is Maybe don't eat that yeah there's our afternoon tea so crickey what am I going to do with this let's see look at this uh beautiful view behind me look at this spoon never seen a spoon like that before that's all right isn't it right so let's see what have we got here I hope it's not like fish or something like that let's see it smells oh it smells like tea actually so there's the tea and it is the afternoon it's just a strange texture but just Taste of tea it's literally the only taste there is tea um with some sort of like noodle like vegetable kind of texture I've got absolutely no idea what this is would you like to know what this is yeah is spicy this is spicy flavor right obviously and this uh bottom bit says tender dried beans tender dried beans this isn't something I usually have on my afternoon tea no but I'm willing to give this a go it's a bit warm yeah it's like warm tea with some sort of like noodles yeah I guess you can drink it like that it just tastes like tea though bit bready this here I already know it's going to be absolutely lovely very nice is that like a marshmallowy texture on the bottom yeah some sort of like sugary just a nice sweet cake mhm we have this little white sponge cake I think it is just regular sponge this one. bit of a weird taste to it well quite a strange afternoon tea to be honest with you to be honest with you you don't want to try the beans I'm going to pass on that it's the vacuum sealed bit that's that's what kind of gets me ate something very similar last night didn't we in a vacuum sealled packet wasn't wasn't not a big fan of the slimy vacuum sealed food I just think not quite for me well that was a nice taste I'll enjoy the rest of it we'll hit that it slowly with our little tea dessert thing there and our rice puffs looking at this absolutely insane view just waiting for the sun to go down it's not about now it's about later when that sun goes down that's going to be absolutely tremendous right maybe you can have a little bath with that view I just went to the reception desk to see if I could get a bottle of wine or just something nice to enjoy this beautiful view with and uh I was having a little look at that wine selection they didn't have very much they had a few wines which are only 4% 4% for a for a red wine don't know what that's all about but uh found one looks like it's a Chinese wine and uh I went to to buy it and went no don't worry about it it's yours on the house for free how about that eh so this is it look at this we've got this Chinese wine it's called Gutiska Kennen I mean when I say that out loud it doesn't sound very Chinese to be fair so what does it say it says the life of wine is not only derived from Essence Sun soil grapes and long wine tasting and excellent wine making history and Technology wow that is one long sentence the background is of the multi uteral wine making experience and respected Brewing technology this is from the yanai godia Mana Winery company and it's all just in Chinese on the back there but yeah it says a dry red wine so going to uh enjoy that let's have a little see all right in color hey that's what it's all about isn't it glass of red with this beautiful view cheers or Ganbei it's a weird tasting wine tastes like pears strange that tastes like like green fruits normally what you would expect in a in a white wine but um nonetheless I'll enjoy it and uh uh wait for the sun to finish setting and all of these lights to come alive well guys had a taste of the good life here in China I don't think I can go back to the bottom class sleeper trains of South Asia I'm only joking I'll alway be an adventurer now lets stop frolicking around in a bathtub with beautiful views of Chongqing City and let's reveal the true reason the one site that everybody comes to Chongqing for and we're going to go there get deep into it we're going to try Chongqings spiciest food we're going to get right in there tonight I've had a little time relaxing bit of Frank Sinatra in the bath but now it's time to get back to my roots deep inside the Epic Chinese megatropolis cyber Punk futuristic city that is Chongqing well the reality is we didn't book this $100 hotel room for the bath or the nice wine or this view here which is all very nice and everything the real view the real reason that you have to get this hotel room is for none other than the most infamous view of any cityscape in China the Chongqing Skyline look at this wow look at this guys so many different lights and animations on all of the buildings it gets even more look at that over there guys this whole Skyline look at that chongqing right there that's where we are that's what we're doing in the Cyber Punk City this digital City look at this guys absolutely amazing have you ever seen a Skyline as animated as lit up as bright as this fella now we are going to go right deep into here and get into the hustle and bustle and see the craziness of the Chongqing nightlife and we're back out in the wild of Chongqing ah right guys you can see the illuminating buildings all of the different colors and movements and animations firing across the city over there you can see and uh we're going to get right in the thick of it we're going to go try and get into the most famous food the most famous type of food the most famous meal that you can have in this area of China which is the hot pot and specifically the chongqing Hot Pot is notoriously spicy it's supposed to be roaringly red there big bubbling pot of fat and oil and just a huge concoction of delicious spicy broth which you then cook youe et inside yeah we've had hot pop before never had chongqing Hot Pot before so hopefully we can get into a local restaurant here and uh really try this but look at this guys so many different things so many bars clubs live music places arts and crafts this is where you want to be if you like evening life if you want to chill in the day and just have a load of stuff to do in the night time chongqing is the place to be if you don't like crowds guys you're going to have to find a way to get off the beaten path because you won't believe the amount of people that are here to take pictures of the prize view with the bridge with everything all this traffic is all backed up because of this look at all of these people here it's it looks like coming out of St James's Park on a match day or something or or a gig at Wembley or just an absolute colossal amount of people crickey I don't think we can even fit on the pavement we're going to have to walk on the side here it smells nice fried food I can smell and it does look good like if you look at the view it's it's fantastic but also I I can see it from my hotel room so yeah just pay $100 and you don't have to worry about doing all of this guys look at all of these people here honestly I pay the $100 cuz you do not want to be $100 a night get you the view what all of these people are after look at this there's a nice little spot look I can just quickly jump look at that just quickly hijack the spot and there we go how about that eh doesn't look so good on the GoPro but uh obviously you've seen the footage from the iPhone absolutely immense but look at this man this is I guess was supposed to be part of the highway system or something like that it's just became entirely pedestrianized we look on the map to to the Hot Pot restaurant we want to go to and we clicked directions we said we'll get another one of them nice Ubers and then we looked it said it took an hour didn't it yeah an hours drive just to get across the river and then we were like oh how far away is it we looked at the distance and it was barely any far away it's because of this because of all the these people blocking all the roads and everything arent they, i mean us too look at us currently walking along the road but look at this view as we do it man this is a nice nice walk you want to have a nice evening walk it's like 22° we got all of the Pretty Lights amazing this must be a road when it's not dark obviously ah only in the night time cuz guys this uh there's nothing uh really to see apart from just a whole lot of tall interesting buildings there a few temples as well yeah but this is what you come to see isn't it everybody's waiting until the night time to come out here just walking into an absolute swarm of people everyone's coming the opposite way to us but we want to get in there we want to get in to the dense City and get some delicious spicy chongqing Hot Pot do you think this means that the restaurant will be quieter well I guess all these these are all the customers coming away this fella on the famous bridge here in Chongqing is selling freshly squeezed orange juice never had orange juice in China before I didn't know it was famous you know I know all about valencian orange but uh how about Chinese orange juice eh, hello there we go fresh oranges out of his basket cut them in halve impressive. 12. £1.20 for orange juice here on the famous bridge
in chongqing I didn't know they turned it orange just for us yeah orange just for the juice right there we go that's uh four oranges it's going to take to make this nice big cup let's see nice refreshing drink on this lovely summer evening and there we go look at that nicely pressed getting everything out of it lovely a little, funny looking shape on these well look forward to trying Chinese orange juice, me too, never heard that before and the final orange goes in there well it's not going to be cold you know that's okay yeah there's no ice or anything I can't see so going into more oh a bit more what a generous guy what a nice fella you couldn't even buy 12 that many oranges for 12 I know value for money here guys we had about nine oranges for £1.20 and there we go pouring it into a nice plastic cup for you wow very YouTuber friendly here in China hey what's that paper there thats interesting i wonder why he puts the paper on there i wonder what the purpose of that is well there you go get yourselve a straw oh amazing thank you so much there we go what a nice fell eh any bin yeah thank you byebye byebye right there we go now let's give this a try it's a good color now we are harsh orange juice critiques because we lived in Valencia for so long so that's good is it yeah that is actually quite nice a blast of that it's all right it's a bit a little bit bitter a little bit bitter doesn't have that massive zesty explosion of flavor like you would get in a valencian orange but it's quite cold actually it's not too warm or anything so that'll keep us going as we try to navigate our way through this huge swarm of people to get to the other side of the bridge now just below me is one of the most famous scenes here in Chongqing it's the traditional buildings which have all been lit up now look at this you can see there the old style buildings all with the yellow orange illuminations and all of them people down there queuing to get their photos absolutely just it is pretty amazing but wow what a sight with all of them people down there that's absolutely crazy see down here people are on the sand Bank of the river god yeah I don't even know how they managed to get down there there's loads of people down here who are getting their prize shots there's some sort of booze cruise down here anyone on the pints it doesn't look like it they're all on the Cups of Tea all on Cups of Tea enjoying the view what a place eh and our hotel is that one right there right let's uh keep navigating through these crowds this feels like the end of the world guys we've come off the bridge and now we're all walking through like the central like Motorway systems like this is the just the roads is all like hundreds if not well thousands and thousands of people it's all like like refugees like going to seek shelter under ground or something look at this no cars there thousand of people walk through like Motorway tunnels this is absolutely absurd this is definitely the most interesting walk for an evening meal that I've ever been on it just doesn't end guys look at that just thousands and thousands of people all just walking along these roads to get a picture of the illuminated buildings I wonder what time they stopped illuminating cuz surely people need to sleep I think it's the light pollution yeah that is interesting yeah we'll see tonight I'm guessing when we get back uh if the lights are all still on but uh wow what an unbelievably interesting uh thing is crickey that way sorry that way I can't even hear you it's absolutely chaos look at this guys absolutely chaos right let's sneak in we got to swim against the current here and we've arrived and boy does it look popular this is the Beibuyuan Hot Pot restaurant look at all the these people waiting an absolute uh swarm of people here crickey God knows how we're going to get in here look at all these people these are all just waiting to uh waiting to get sat arent they where do I go to get a number I don't know let's let's see what we can uh see what we can do cuz uh it must be good if it's this popular let's have a little uh a little see yeah okay it looks like we've got to scan the QR code and then we'll get our place well guys we've gotten ourselves a number we are a275 and we are sat on the street in this sort of big public waiting area and talk about late night dining talk about late night eating there are currently well I'll tell you this it's currently 9:30p.m. and there are 102 tables ahead of us so yeah they don't care about what time it is here in China they'll eat late at night they'll drink a lot while they're eating and that's what we want to do but uh we're going to have to wait for 102 people to Finish Well 102 tables to finish now in the meantime because one thing that I do like about China is that you don't have to worry if the restaurant that you're going to or the bar you're going to doesn't have what you like so for example I can't drink any fizzy or carbonated drinks so I can't drink beer or anything like that so I like to have a red wine or a soju or something like that what you can do in China is bring your own alcohol to the restaurant you can take in a bottle of wine you know you can take in your own you know Spirits whiskey whatever you want it's pretty much common courtesy as long as they don't have the thing that you want then yeah you can bring it in no problem so for for example beer probably not the best of just bringing your own beer cuz they're going to sell baijiu you know they're going to sell beer but um yeah I'm going to see if I can find myself nice bottle of wine that I can uh take in there and have with our ridiculously spicy uh chongqing hot pot so chongqing beer found it in the shop there are you sure it's beer it's 2.5% I've got no idea just said Chongqing i'll have to get that 500 mil can so pretty big one I'll hold it this way so you can see the label yeah cheers its nice yeah yeah is it like a larger yeah it's like a light larger light larger the label's the right way up here yeah it's just the wrong way around on one side it's the wrong way one side it's the right way there you are just having a few drinks while we wait the problem is guys the only wine they had was this one here but it's got a cork in it so I asked if they had a bottle opener but uh well they didn't so I'm going have to rely on the restaurant having a bottle opener if they don't then I'm just going to be on the water so we'll have to have a few drinks later on wont we but uh yeah what you do you just sit in the street have a few beers while you wait for your seat one of Chongqings most famous Hotpot it's one of the most popular ones in the entirety of Chongqing as you can see here just a crazy line waiting must be still another 90 or so tables ahead of us been waiting here here outside for an hour and 10 minutes just went to check on uh the progress that we've made there's still 60 tables ahead of us guys 60 there was 102 and we sat down an hour ago yeah so we managed to work down 40 tables in an hour and 10 minutes and there are 60 ahead of us this better be worth it been waiting 2 hours now and there's still 30 tables ahead of us this this is torture guys surely they're done now let me in let me in we can just eat out of this sure there's a few little snacks here we could have so hungry time is now 11: 11:31 p.m. we arrived here at 9:30 thinking we're having a
late dinner never thought it would be this late still all of these people all waiting everyone shouting having a right shout off these fellas still 30 tables we'll enjoy this delicious spicy Chongqing hot pot, theres not even 30 people outside how are there 30 tables left. 2 and 1 half hours later we've made our way into the foyer into the entrance of the restaurant it's not our turn yet still a good dozen tables ahead of us but uh we can now start to see the restaurant just a little bit here you see plenty other people are waiting as well but it's absolutely chucking it down rain out there pouring 2 and 1 half hours of the cold chcuking down rain to get into this this has got to be China's most exclusive restaurant this is ridiculous people dont wait this long to go see their favorite artists play a live play a live gig you know this is uh for sure the most exclusive hotpot restaurant in in in China you let me know because I don't know is there any other restaurant where you have to wear 2 and 1 half hours to get inside I don't know I've never waited this long in my life so I'm very much looking forward to it the most famous hot pot here in chongqing this is torture smells amazing I can see the sauce bar and everything we're 2 away 2 away he's only got to say AR CH and then it's AR CH W and that is us a275 come on yesss get in feels like i've won something wow look at this eh and here's our little station okay wow so this is us and our own little booth here here is our receipt yeah showing only facts we got right here at 2125 2125 and The Time Is Now 12:20 so just shy of 3 hours 2 hours and 55 minutes right yeah 2 hours 55 minutes we've waited for this Chinese meal right here now looks like we got a scan the QR code I mean guys it's 20 Past 12 this is basically breakfast at this point I eaten at 20 past 12 unless it was a kebab after a night out or something we're going to scan the QR code and then we'll choose our soup which is the the main Bowl that's going to go in here this is going to light see it's going to be a nice fire and uh the soup is going to be filled with ah thank you it filled with all kinds of chillies and spices and everything we've ordered the soup base which is going to come very shortly I've also ordered a whole load of food for us to cook inside of that base but there's just one last thing that you need to do with hot pot and that is to build and customize your own little sauce pot cuz after you've cooked the meat inside of the hot pot you then take it out and put it in your own little sauce pot and that's completely up to you on how you like it you see here just like a big Buffet various different sauces and oils and vegetables and everything make up your own little pot there it's all completely preferenced in the Sichuan area in the Chongqing area it's very typical to have the peanut the sesame sauce that sort of creamy type thing but for me I prefer soy sauce bit of vinegar some chilies and garlic simple love it right let's make our little sauce pot first yes special okay all right some garlic you want some garlic yes please garlic for me thank you very much more less a bit more bit more that's quite a bit but uh yeah that'll do that'll do spring onions yeah spring onions make a nice fresh flavor then you know I'd like me fresh chili and the Sichuan chili we go plenty chilies we love our spicy chilies lovely and i'd like some Sichuan dry chili there fantastic this is quite similar to like what you get in Thailand for instance isn't it yeah you get that along the table all the time don't you right now I'm just going to douse that and some soy sauce and some vinegar see Paige has gone for a sesame more of a creamy style one it say soy sauce soy sauce yeah maybe I don't know all right and then is the vinegar some of that in there yeah that'll do me bit of salt bit of MSG MSG oh there we go were flying there what's your thoughts on it good uh this laughing at us okay okay hes playing it in English this fella, hes playing it in Chinese oh sugar this is sugar do you know you sweet yeah sweet and spicy I like sweet okay okay enjoy enjoy nice Lads here but uh I haven't got time to wait around cuz uh I've waited three 3 hours for this looks like we've got some progress here this is what a chongqing Hot Pot is like look at this guys so I'm going to put my little dipping bowl there so they've got the fire going now tell us what have we got here Paige so this is the hot would you believe it right this is the hot hot pot and it is a mixture of so this is a this is animal fat normally if you buy like a hot pot mix from like an Asian supermarket in England or something uh it's made with like vegetable oils it's not like a fat it's an oil um these two love hearts here these are two blocks of fat which are going to melt and make that beautiful paste a very buttery fatty boiling broth of delicious spicy food that we are going to cook our raw meat our vegetables our potatoes our noodles this here it's called lotus root this is my favorite vegetable in the world in the world in the world more than mushrooms more than mushrooms in just a few moments this is going to be absolutely bubbling away completely melted into a big red roaring broth ready to cook all of our delicious meat all the meat is arriving there's some sausage there's some beef some more sausage and here we've got is that lamb it's either lamb or beef it's very nice very fatty it's going to this is starting to get there as you can see still needs quite a bit more heating up the do to start getting through that fat and get it really going before we can put some meat in it but uh oh we are getting there look how red this is guys just a deep red chilly heaven and there we go look at that bubbling chongqing chilly broth look at that guys that is just roaringly spicy broth and there's only one way to premier this we've waited more than 3 hours now is to get these rolls of pork in there and just this is all you do guys you just get a whole load of them just drop them in there just let them cook obviously guys I've been touching raw pork just here on my Chopsticks so just going to hold them in there just for a few seconds just to uh to to cook away any of the batteria or anything like that there's a bit of hotpot safety for you there but yeah this uh is pretty hot so it's not going to take too long I'm going to let it cook for a little bit longer just given that it is pork but yeah hotpot normally is quite a quite a social thing you know you might have like and you see over there groups of people um you know all around you beers flowing having a good laugh and just trying different foods putting it in and all the rest of it and you know you got to fight for your for your meat in there you got to you got to get it all uh make sure it's all yours you know cuz uh doesn't matter who's put one in you got to fight for it and just take it try and get uh all the best stuff but this should be pretty much ready so let's have a little fish around there we go found me bits of pork that there cook it a few seconds longer it's nice and thin as well guys so you don't have to worry too much and then all you do is you take it straight from the Hot Pot put it in your dipping sauce leave it there just to cool down for a little bit get all the flavors of that lovely concoction that you made earlier and there we go this is going to be some spicy chongqing pork here you know how hungry we are after thinking that we could just go for hotpot waiting 3 hours now God knows it's 10 to 1 in the morning now guys turn up here in half night at night this is absolutely unbelievable this is not our first time having hot pot this is the first time having hotpot chongqing style yeah this is the first time having this Super Famous Hot Pot chongqing Hot Pot is very very famous all through China we've had hot pots in restaurants we've had hot pot at home in enland we've had it in China we had it in Japan you know this is is some of our favorite food this absolutely outrageously spicy I think that's one of the great things about hotpot is that everyone's experience like and taste is different cuz everyone's made their own individual dipping sauce yeah she's got a a creamy sesame sauce you know I've got this vinegary sugary uh chili and garlic sauce and it's, you just go for whatever you like you know I might fancy some Lotus root you know my favorite vegetable get that in there yeah just start building some stuff up you know maybe you want a couple of taties well let's got some potatoes in there they're going to absorb all the chili oil and be really spicy and delicious let's get some mushrooms in there plenty of mushrooms shove them in there you know you start enjoying this there some beef going in this what's all about look at that through these big mushrooms stick them in there I'm just going to sit you know enjoy few few drinks and uh just yeah just just pick of this put it in your dipping sauuce and just enjoy proper fun communal eating and it's absolutely delicious just look at that I leave that lotus root in there just completely red drenched in these chilies then I'm going to send it through for another round in there just so good what a lovely restaurant as well nice ambient lighting all sorts of people on dates or eating with friends or meeting with family it's just like such a proper social thing to do it's a really nice way of eating you know absolutely love it oh it there we go show you to look ah look at that guys what is this what have you ordered here crispy chicken crispy chicken tastey bits not just hot pot bits they giving us really decent service considering the fact that it's 1:00 in the morning and thees are right at the end of their shift and it's it's not you know it's these tables are left a complete mess Table after Table after table you know they have to clean it as you can see there so yeah appreciate them service although tipping culture is not a thing in uh in China I do appreciate it right let's get some more this hot pot found that bit Wow look at that let's give it one run through there let's enjoy this mmm look at this shredded chili beef look how red that is just in case you didn't think the Hot Pot was spicy enough so I'll take this shredded chili beef cook it in chongqing spicy hot pot and then pull it out and put it inside my bowl of chillies and then eat it it could be torturous if you don't like spicy food guys of course however don't let that put you off hot pot cuz in a lot of restaurants in almost every hot pot restaurant you can do this bowl where it's half and half so you can have one half spicy for your friends that like the spicy and then for you you could have like a tomato based one with no chilies or like a mushroom kind of oil soup like a lamb bone one as yeah like a lamb broth so you know you can uh go half and half and have one spicy for you mates that like spicy and one uh one nice and easy if you don't like spicy so yeah don't let that put you off get yourself to china town find a Hot Pot restaurant and uh go try it out cuz it's absolutely amazing and I think you'll actually love it there it is my favorite vegetable if you haven't tried Lotus root give it a go it's absolutely delicious when it's fried it tastes like fish and and chips like both fish and chips together oh absolutely love it mmm fantastic bit hard to eat this bit slippery but crunchy and then just absorbs all the flavors of the hot pot inside it this just a sent this crunchy version of that that's absolutely delicious but guys if you can fry that tastes amazing as well any of that chili beef in there let's have a little scout for that I think that was some there there we go look at this theres the chili beef inside the chili hot pot into my chili sauce f**king hell that is spicy bloody hell State of that you made me both scared and intrigued to try it extremely spicy got a piece oh my goodness me yeah that is uh the spiciest thing by far Jesus I'm still coughing yeah that one's that one's got a kick it's like a proper bite as well like menacing bite like a real stabbing sort of you know we've had a lot of Sichuan food and uh in chongqing used to be part of Sichuan so historically the food is you know somewhat similar but uh normally the Sichuan Chili Pepper it's a it's a grower it's aromatic it's fresh it has a nice sort of numbing feeling but by gum that that spicy uh beef there that's just outrageous fresh chili just attacking you straight away wow oh my uh mouth's on fire wow yeah that chili beef I'm good with spice but bloody hell drinking tea man I bloody I hate tea but I've got to drink it this well it's quarter past 1 in the morning this restaurant closes at 2 in the morning so we have to start making plan of action and attacking all of this here we still got a canny bit of food left here so we're going to get into food machine mode and then start smashing it cuz I'm so hungry still a long time without any food look at this beautiful fatty meat here look at all that fat there there's the meat and then the this part all the fat this one was called snow beef snow interesting guys this hotpot is growing exceptionally spicy my mouth is on fire my nose is running sweating wow that snow beef is amazing it's like wagyu so fatty So Soft yeah my mouth is absolutely on fire I wanted to get this one cuz this is the Chongqing specialty they're famous for having the spiciest food in China and this is uh really showing that I think this is the spiciest food we've ever had on our travels yeah so like typically like you know we travel in India Pakistan those Foods aren't spicy by Nature you know they don't it's not like an England Curry where they Chuck load of spice in, this is genuinely spicy naturally extremely spicy yeah my nose is just pouring I don't think I can even eat any more of that no chance I can eat any more of that spicy beef that was outrageous so for a lot of people eating small pieces of meat very thin cuts of uh different meat and vegetables they're not going to it's not going to fill them up they're going to feel still a bit hungry that's the beauty of hotpot so you eat all the best bits all of the nice beef all the ribeye all the all the snow beef with the fatty bits all the delicious bits but then when you want to actually fill up it's time for the noodles or the rice in this case wew went for the noodles you could have you know fried rice or boiled rice steamed rice whatever but we're just going to get these noodles and cook them in there then in a few minutes once they're all cooked we'll pull them out and we'll enjoy some noodles and that'll really fill us up and then we can head off and I'll let you know how much all this costs here in the most famous Hot Pot restaurant in Chongqing and there we go to conclude our chongqing Hot Pot some ridiculously spicy noodles so I wanted to punish myself even more put them in my dipping sauce look at them bad lads wow that was difficult to eat them spicy but yeah you get the point you can have some rice you can have some noodles at the end yeah we are very much finished it is 1:38 almost 1:40 in the morning we are knacked so tired had a long day all the way from Chengdu here to now still eating hot pot at almost 2 in the morning but yeah this whole meal came to £30.00 so all of that food was £30.00 in total yeah hope you've enjoyed coming along on this Epic Journey using China's most futuristic transport the bullet train to China's most futuristic city Chongqing don't worry there's going to be more videos coming from chongqing where we're going to explore way more deeply inside of this insane night life there's so many really strange things in this city that you're not going to believe you'll never seen it in another city I call this the 8D City cuz it exists in so many different layers so many different Realms it's a really strange place and we're going to reveal it all in the 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