Xiaolongkan Hot Pot

Xiaolongkan Hot Pot, whose authoritative Wikipedia subject is 小龙坎老火锅, is a Chinese restaurant brand originating in Chengdu, Sichuan. The brand operates in the hot-pot category and is associated with the regional Sichuan dining tradition, particularly the communal meal format in which diners cook ingredients in a shared simmering broth at the table. Its positioning is centered on an authentic Sichuan hot-pot experience rather than on a single packaged food product. The available reference material identifies it as a hot-pot chain restaurant from China and indicates operations in China and overseas markets. Specific information about its founding date, founders, ownership structure, corporate group, store count, international footprint, financial performance, leadership, and historical milestones is not established by the supplied sources. Its principal commercial offer is therefore best described at category level: hot-pot meals, hot-pot ingredients, and a signature spicy hot-pot format. Further verification is needed before documenting detailed corporate history, expansion chronology, executive appointments, campaigns, controversies, or financial decisions.

Xiaolongkan Hot Pot is a Chengdu-origin Chinese hot-pot restaurant chain associated with Sichuan cuisine. The supplied reference material provides only a brief identification of the brand as a hot-pot chain restaurant from China. It does not establish the year of creation, the identity of the founding team, the development of the first restaurant, the legal entity operating the brand, or the chronology of its expansion. Accordingly, a detailed historical narrative cannot be responsibly reconstructed from the available evidence. The brand's known category identity is based on Sichuan-style hot pot: a communal dining format in which customers cook selected meats, vegetables, tofu products, noodles, and other ingredients in a shared broth. Its stated positioning emphasizes an authentic Sichuan hot-pot experience. The existing dossier describes its headquarters as Chengdu, Sichuan, and its operating markets as China and overseas, but it does not provide market-by-market dates, store counts, franchise information, or details of international operations. No verified information has been supplied about acquisitions, parent companies, ownership changes, public listing, management succession, product generations, national campaigns, regulatory actions, litigation, recalls, or scandals. The official website is available as a reference point for additional verification, but no specific factual claims beyond the supplied material are added here.

• 2017

  Flagship store set a historic queue record exceeding 2,000 tables

• 2014

  Shoo Loong Kan Hot Pot grand opening

Authentic Sichuan hot-pot experience

• Restaurant meals

  Hot-pot meals

  Communal restaurant meals built around a shared hot-pot broth. Diners cook selected ingredients at the table and consume them with accompanying sauces and side items. The supplied sources do not specify the complete menu, serving formats, or regional variations.

• Food ingredients

  Hot-pot ingredients

  Ingredient selections intended for cooking in the restaurant's hot-pot broths. The available material identifies hot-pot ingredients as a typical product category but does not document a complete ingredient list, sourcing policy, packaged retail range, or signature items.

• Sichuan hot pot

  Signature spicy hot pot

  A spicy hot-pot offering representing the brand's association with Sichuan-style dining. The supplied information does not establish the recipe, broth variants, ingredient composition, or launch date.

• 2021

  Nanjing outlet exposed for spoiled potatoes, mop touching ice machine, and other kitchen hygiene issues

  In March 2021, media went undercover at a Xiaolongkan outlet in Nanjing and reported that spoiled ingredients continued to be used, a mop came into contact with an ice machine, and there were operational hygiene problems. The company apologized and required the outlet involved to suspend operations for rectification and ordered nationwide self-inspections. This concerns the Nanjing outlet involved and is separate from the Yulin gutter oil case.

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• 2020

  Yulin franchisee convicted of producing and selling gutter oil hot pot base; brand apologizes

  Public court rulings and media reports in 2020 showed that a Xiaolongkan franchise in Yulin had recycled customers' used hot pot oil to produce and sell "gutter oil," and those involved were sentenced. The brand apologized, saying it had previously cooperated with authorities and would strengthen monitoring and revoke the franchise authorization of the offending store. The actors were the franchisee and the individuals involved.

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• 2018

  Three franchise outlets exposed for reusing old oil and food and tableware hygiene problems

  In 2018, undercover videos of three Xiaolongkan franchise outlets in Changchun, Nanchang, and Harbin exposed hygiene problems including the repeated use of old oil, coloring of ingredients, and mixed use of cleaning equipment. The brand announced that the outlets would suspend operations for self-inspection and invited regulatory inspections. This is recorded separately from the Yulin gutter oil case and the 2021 Nanjing outlet incident.

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1. 1Xiaolongkan official websitexiaolongkan.com
2. 2Official Website Homepagexiaolongkan.com
3. 3Official Website About Pagexiaolongkan.com
4. 4Wikipedia (Chinese)zh.wikipedia.org
5. 5Wikidatawikidata.org
6. 6Yulin franchisee convicted of producing and selling gutter oil hot pot base; brand apologizesm.thepaper.cn
7. 7Nanjing outlet exposed for spoiled potatoes, mop touching ice machine, and other kitchen hygiene issuesthepaper.cn
8. 8Nanjing outlet exposed for spoiled potatoes, mop touching ice machine, and other kitchen hygiene issuesthepaper.cn
9. 9Three franchise outlets exposed for reusing old oil and food and tableware hygiene problemsnbd.com.cn
10. 10Three franchise outlets exposed for reusing old oil and food and tableware hygiene problemsfinance.cnr.cn