Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits New Chong Qing ("the Sichuan standby, mapo tofu, is worth trying: intricately seasoned, as simultaneously soothing and vicious as an Aimee Bender story"). Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Intelligence, "New Chong Qing: New Hot Pot Spot."

fried chicken with chiles Anne Fishbein

house special tea Anne Fishbein

Chris preparing the fish hot pot Anne Fishbein

fish hot pot seasonings Anne Fishbein

fish hot pot Anne Fishbein

house cold noodles Anne Fishbein

fish hot pot Anne Fishbein

fork full of cold noodles Anne Fishbein

very happy lady pouring tea Anne Fishbein

tea pouring detail from antique kettle Anne Fishbein

chile peppers drying in the sun outside the restaurant Anne Fishbein