**Title: Gastronomy and Photography Adventures with Friends**
**Date:** November
**Companions:** Friends
**Activities:** Gastronomy, Photography, and a touch of bourgeoisie.
**Author’s Visit:** November 11, 2020, at 22:17
Chongqing hot pot, with its unique ingredients and cooking methods, has been quietly gaining popularity in the metropolis over the years, becoming the hot pot that Shanghai locals love to eat in every season. It allows you to feel the warmth of summer even in the cold winter. On Singles’ Day, a new Sichuan Chongqing hot pot restaurant opened at 1731 Huashan Road, a French-style villa in Shanghai. This is the only Panda Old Stove Hot Pot restaurant in Shanghai that is on the must-eat list of Sichuan Chongqing hot pots. As a self-proclaimed foodie, I naturally had to be the first to taste it.
**Restaurant Name:** Panda 1731·FATT PANDA
**Address:** 1st Floor, No. 1731 Huashan Road
**Transportation:** Take the Metro Line 11 to Jiaotong University Station, exit from Exit 1, and walk 130 meters to reach the destination.
**Business Hours:** 11:00-22:00
**Specialty:** The only restaurant in Shanghai on the must-eat list of Sichuan Chongqing hot pots.
**Ambience:** A French-style garden villa with extremely creative decorations that echo the restaurant’s name. The national treasure, the panda, is ubiquitous throughout the restaurant: panda toys on the tables, panda murals on the walls, and panda patterned handrails on the doors, each with different poses and expressions, looking simple and joyful, making people unable to resist taking photos with them.There is a Michael Jackson dance performance to celebrate the new store opening. The host announces the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new store opening. Ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new store opening. There is also a human panda performance to entertain at the newly opened restaurant, and when the music starts, it feels like eating hot pot in a bar.
**Service**: The good-looking and friendly waitstaff, both male and female, are quite enthusiastic and give every female diner a panda hair tie as a souvenir. Media journalists are seated on the right. Desserts are served to media journalists, food critics, and guests: Pineapple Hazelnut Custard. Peach White Chocolate. Chocolate Vanilla Mousse. Chocolate Puff. Vanilla Passion Fruit. Vanilla Citrus.
**Cuisine**: Look at the restaurant’s menu, and ordering according to the recommended specialty dishes is guaranteed to be right! When eating Chongqing hot pot, you should eat spicy, but to take care of someone’s stomach, we could only order a double-flavor pot: one with an old duck soup base and the other with a healthy one-time use vegetable oil spicy base. #Secret Recipe Bullfrog# is a must-order! After boiling for two minutes, you can scoop it up and taste it. It seems to wash away the unpleasantness of life, and with one bite, you can enjoy the super tender and super flavorful bullfrog meat, with the aroma of the spicy pot integrated into it, making one feel extremely satisfied. #Mushrooms, Pea Sprouts# Their specialty is directly cultivated by the store, freshly served and cut on the spot by the diners themselves, processed on the spot by the waitstaff, and you can smell the fragrance of the pea sprouts, which are ready to eat after a slight blanch.#Beef ribeye# Beautiful presentation. The texture of each fresh piece of meat is simply a work of art. The beef with alternating layers of fat and lean becomes extremely tender after being brushed. At the first bite, the fragrance of bursting oil emerges. The place on the cow that is ‘overflowing with richness’ is truly captivating. No wonder it has long been a popular choice.
Mushrooms are very suitable as an interlude between meats. After being brushed and enhanced, their toughness and fragrance are not inferior at all.
#Pork belly# What an incredibly beautiful pork belly! With intervals of lean meat and fat, the fat melts when heated, and the lean meat remains tender even after long cooking.
#Panda’s Three Treasures# Goose intestines, beef tripe, and black hairy tripe are all very fresh. The three crispy delicacies from Chongqing that are basically ordered at every table and are also the restaurant’s signature dishes. After being dipped up and down seven or eight times, it can be eaten. When eaten, it seems as if one can hear the crunching sound. A large mouthful with one chopstick gives an explosion of crispness.
#Chongqing Crispy Pork# The taste is deeply engraved in the taste buds, making me unable to forget this fluffy little meat after being fried. Fragrant! It can be served as a meat dish or as a snack.
#Brown Sugar Glutinous Rice Cake# Brown sugar made by traditional methods, purely handmade, 100% natural and without any additives. The crispy shell on the outside and the sweetness of brown sugar.When you bite into it, you get the softness of glutinous rice flour. A dessert that does not stick to teeth and is very tempting.
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