Hawkers bought water-buffalo offal such as liver and tripe, which they cut into small pieces. On clay stoves on their stalls, they heated a bubbling sauce of chillies and Sichuan peppercorns in galvanized steel basins divided into several compartments.
最初一般挑擔零賣販子將水牛內臟買得，肝、肚切成小塊，於攤頭置泥爐一具，爐上置分格的大洋鐵盆一隻，盆內翻煎倒滾著一種又辣又麻又鹹的滷汁。