Chongqing hot pot is a type of hot pot from Southern China named after the city Chongqing. Unlike the instant boiled mutton (涮羊肉) soup base, the soup bases used for Chongqing hot pot are quite strong and flavorful. There are always plenty of herbs, seasoning, and colors in the soup base. The spicy soup base is particularly hot and numbing. Chongqing hot pot usually uses a large saucepan as the cookware. In restaurants, Chongqing hot pot often has one or multiple separators in the saucepan. The hot pot with one separator can hold two different soup bases.