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			<title><![CDATA[Chongqing Hot Pot]]></title>
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Hot pot - is the most famous and favorite dish in Chongqing. Chongqing local people consider the hot pot a local specialty, which is noted for its peppery and hot taste, scalding yet fresh and tender. People gather around a small pot boiled with charcoal, electric or gas filled with flavorful and nutritious soup base. You have a choice of spicy, pure and combo for the soup base. Thin sliced raw variety meat, fish, various bean curd products and all kinds of vegetables are boiled in the soup base. You then dip them in a little bowl of special sauce. Be careful since the spicy soup base is burning hot. 
First eaten by poor boatmen of the Yangtze River in Chongqing area and then spread westwards to the rest of Sichuan. Now is a very popular local flavor and can be found at every corner of the city. There are a great variety of hotpots, including Yueyang Hotpot, Four Tastes Hotpot, Yashan Hotpot and Fish Head Hotpot. If you are adventurous enough, you can basically cook anything with hot pot, e.g., pig's brain and duck's kidney. 
Chongqing people love their hotpot, especially when the weather is steamy. The fire dances under the pot, the heavily oiled and spiced soup boils with hazy steam, and the people are bathed in sweat. Although hotpot can be found wherever there are street vendors or small restaurants, chongqing Hot pot has the greatest variety and is known for its delicious soup base and dipping sauce. 

Chongqing Malatang:  
The other famous local food is hot and spicy Mala Tang. Literally, "ma" means numbness in the mouth, "la" is chili hot and "tang" means piping hot. Mala Tang, with various raw ingredients cooked in a communal pot of steaming stock blended with spices, originated in Sichuan's largest city, Chongqing. The double-sided soup pot, placed on a central table burner, is the focal point of the meal. Powerfully hot Mala Tang soup and fresh tasting chicken broth, side by side, are popular. Ingredients include fresh sliced abalone, sea cucumber, hog tendon, Beijing cabbage and beef dumpling, prawns, carp fish fillet, bean curd, chicken fillet and vegetables. The excellent dipping mixture of sesame oil, chili sauce, peanut sauce, chopped chilies and garlic combine to make magic. Savory tidbits are appetizingly tasty - egg coated glutinous square, crispy spring roll, fried buns, eight treasure black rice and water chestnut jelly.
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:30:14 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[About WuYiShan In FuJian Province]]></title>
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			<![CDATA[Mount WuYi, a fairly land on earth, is situated in the north of FuJian Province. It is the most beautiful place in Southeast of China. It extends about 5 kilometers from east to west and about 14 kilometers from north to south. It occupies an area of 70 square kilometers. There are more than two hundred thousand people in the region.
Mountain WuYi was made up of hills , belonging to the red rock relief, which have changed over thousands of years by the action of that is today, and is well known for its green water and red mountains. In this region, that includes the Nine Twist stream, thirty-six peaks, seventy-two caves and ninety-nine rock formations.

 
In 1999, WuYiShan city became one of the world nature and culture Heritage site. It has such honorable names as follows: the world natural and culture heritage site; the State key scenic area and State key nature Reserve; the National Tourist Resort Area; the State First Rate Air Harbour, the world’ Human&amp; Biosphere Preserve. It has beautiful Scenery, a galaxy of culture. Many historical sites and abundant resources.

The natural preserve is located in the western part of the WuYiShan has maintained the most complete, typical  and largest mid-subtropical  pristine forest ecological system. It was praised by the bio-scientists both at home and aboard as “the world of insects”, “the world biological bank” “the paradise of the birds” “the kingdom of snakes”.

 
It also maintains the long-term regional culture such as tea culture, religious culture, folk culture and tourist culture, rock-carved calligraphies and poems left by famous scholars in history have recorded the history and beautiful legendry of WuYiShan.

A newly opened great canon ecological park is in the center of WuYiShan, Tourists can enjoy the best of forest, canyon, waterfalls, stream and drifting here, it is very good place for people to return to the nature and enjoy the beauty of life.


Transportation in WuYiShan is very convenient with its improved accessibility by air, rail and highway .the tourist industry has matured bay after bay, millions of visitors come to WuYiShan each year and enjoy themselves here.
As a Chinese saying goes : famous mountains produce famous tea. WuYiShan has enjoyed a long history and international fame in producing prize WuYiRock(belongs to oolong Tea). Talking about the Tea king----the big red robe tea, is the ultimate produce , naturally grown only on the cliff of the nine dragon Valley of WuYi and enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad.

Well, as a result, I am confident that you will enjoy stay in our city 。 
 
 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:54:52 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hi, dear friends. Welcome to my blog!]]></title>
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			<![CDATA[I have just started my own IGG blog. Please come check it out. ^^ I’m going to be sharing all sorts of fun information, daily topics, memories, lessons learned, whatever comes up! I hope you’ll come and visit and join in the fun! 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:04:09 -0500</pubDate>
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