In Chongqing, hot pot and Chuanchuan incense are like twin sisters, in fact, the latter is far less "open" than the former. Compared with the hot pot with many high-quality products, there are not many well-known skewer incense shops, if you must choose a skewer incense shop in Chongqing, then the answer is undoubtedly Li Chuankean.
Li Chuanchuan is so famous that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is known to the whole city. Li Kushien was originally called "Four Corners Best Skewers", but later the founder chose his surname "Li" as the name of the store, which is simple and easy to understand. Li Kuan Kuan became an instant hit in 2012, and was renamed Lime City Li Kuan Kuan due to the flood of copycat shops, and the current shop sign reads "Li Kuan Kuan Old Store". There are many shops with similar names in Chongqing, but they have nothing to do with Li Chuan, and in Chongqing, there is only one Chuanchuan incense shop run by Li Jie, the founder of Li Chuan.
The bottom of the pot in Chengdu is divided into clear oil and butter, but the vast majority of Chongqing Chuanchuan incense only uses the bottom of the butter pot. In terms of the choice of spiciness at the bottom of the pot, different skewer incense shops have different characteristics. Generally speaking, the bottom of the pot of the time-honored Chuanchuan incense shop has a more "Chongqing taste": heavy oil, heavy and spicy, and rich fragrance; The "new" skewer incense restaurant, which pays more attention to the decoration and dining environment, is likely to have a more milder pot bottom. Plum skewers belong to the former, only providing butter pot bottom, not suitable for shabu easy to absorb oil vegetable skewers, the bottom of the pot is slightly spicy by default, but the spicy degree is still strong.
The bottom of the butter pot is best paired with beef dishes, and the beef skewers are divided into a variety of categories, such as spicy beef, spiced beef, coriander beef, celery beef, etc., the ingredients are fresh, in addition, chicken skin, county liver, duck gizzards, and palm treasure are also more recommended skewer dishes. The dishes of Li Chuanchuan are also abundant, and eating skin beef liver, tender pork slices, and pork weed fat sausage are classic signatures, which are extremely popular. Beef liver cut into thin slices, the surface is wrapped in a layer of sweet potato powder, blanched in the pot for 15 seconds can be entered, the cooked beef liver has no fishy smell, fresh and tender and smooth, with a dry dish to eat will make the taste richer, spicy with numbness, extremely enjoyable. The most important feature of the meat slices is that the meat slices are smooth and tender, not dry or woody, and the more you cook, the more flavorful they are. Fat sausage is a common dish in the skewer incense shop, and the fat sausage of Li skewers is not only refreshing and clean in appearance, but also crispy and chewy in taste.
Under normal circumstances, the only ingredients in the pure oil dish of Chongqing Chuanchuan Incense are sesame oil and minced garlic, and diners can also add some salt. Considering that the skewers belong to the type of slow flavor, the longer they are soaked, the more fragrant, spicy, and salty the flavor will be, so it is recommended to add salt in moderation. Dry dishes play an important role in stringing incense, and dry dishes do not have sesame oil to relieve spiciness like oil dishes, and their role is to enrich the taste. Chongqing Chuanchuan incense dry dish needs to be ordered separately, Li Chuanchuan dry dish ingredients are no different from most of the Chuanchuan incense shop, including chili noodles, pepper noodles, monosodium glutamate, salt, etc., the chili pepper is choked dry with a pot on the same day, manually mashed, in order to ensure that the pepper noodles are fresh and will not resurge, Li Chuan's dry dish has the characteristics of "fragrant and spicy", suitable for eating with meat dishes, the dry dish is spicy, and those who are not spicy need to try carefully.
The location of Li Chuanchuan is hidden and very difficult to find, and the store is set up in a residential building, which is also a common feature of the local old Chuanchuan incense shop. There are many counterfeit shops around the shop, and diners should look for the round sign with the word "Li" on a white background and the image of a family of three posted at the door. The store is connected by several rooms of more than ten square meters, which are in a folded line, which is slightly inconvenient to move around. There is a TV screen in the waiting area at the entrance that shows a video detailing the restaurant's main dishes and how to eat the skewers, which is very friendly to first-time diners.
