Ice, snow and hotpot spice up Chongqing

What better way is there to beat the winter blues than eating spicy hotpot on a snowy day?

On Sunday, more than 100 tourists ate hotpot together outdoors on snow-capped Xiannyu Mountain, which rises to 1,800 meters above sea level, in Wulong, Chongqing.

Boasting the largest number of hotpot restaurants in the country (and, it says, the best), Chongqing was named China's "hotpot city" by the China Cuisine Association in 2007.