Chongqing spring chicken sourced from southern mountain of Chongqing. Spring chicken is a must-go cuisine for every visitor who try to experience night scenery of south mountain. Imagine, when you pass around the sleepless city with tens of thousand lights, dotted with star in the heaven, moon in the water, lantern in human being and the heaven and the earth take the same look as the fairy lands. Then sitting by the table with family, friends and sharing the fragrant chili covering Chongqing, it is so wonderful to taste the Chongqing spring chicken.

　　The spring of Chongqing spring chicken is spring. Some said: “Chongqing spring chicken is named because the chicken are raised by spring”, but others offer another explanation: “the dish is made by spring.” Anyway, spring chicken bears many features with numb, spicy, hot, fresh, fragrant and tender which brings water to your mouth. Nowadays, many restaurants caught alive chicken and cooked. There are three ways to eat the chicken including “spring chicken”, “fried chicken blood” and “fried chicken giblet”. You will fully enjoy the feeling of eating spicy meat of which fully use of raw material without any waste.

　　Chongqing spring chicken contains various high-protein which makes the chicken more digestive and easy to be used by human body meanwhile adding more strength to body. Chicken contains phospholipid which is good for body growth. Chicken is also a nutritious food for healing malnutrition, cold-frightening, fatigue, anemia, and weakness.

　　A villager with name “Li, renhe” opened a food shop for traveller dine in and out. Because there is a deep well lies behind the back yard, the water of the well is from a spring, his shop got the name as “Spring food shop”. In 1993, one day he chatted with friends on how to cook the best chicken dish, and picked a chicken from the cage. After killing, the chicken was cut into pieces mixed with salt, ground ginger and fried in medium-done 500g oil, after few minutes, leaked off oil, added proportional spring water and the well-prepared dried chili, garlic, black bean sauce, Crystal sugar and other over ten seasonings. After 20 minutes simmer, the dish is finished. In order to fix the dish name and address, Li, renhe offered the dish with the name of his shop. Since then, the spring chicken went to public. In 2001, spring chicken was reputed as famous dish in china by the original National Trade Department. In 2003, spring chicken is evaluated as the “National Green Cuisine” by the authority. Spring chicken is a trendy food in Sichuan district with spicy taste and memorable. Spring chicken is a must-go cuisine for traveller in Chongqing.