Longmen No.9 Hotpot (Nanbin Road)

Longmen No.9 sits directly on Nanbin Road in Nan'an District, built around an open-air terrace that looks across the Yangtze at the Jiefangbei skyline, one of the more atmospheric outdoor hotpot settings in Chongqing. The kitchen serves a standard beef-tallow mala base alongside grilled skewers, letting diners mix the two Chongqing street-food traditions -- hotpot and barbecue -- at the same table, a combination common at riverside terrace restaurants across the city. Seating is almost entirely outdoors under open sky or light canopy cover, with plastic stools and long communal-style tables that fill up with groups drinking beer and sharing pots well into the night; the restaurant only opens from 5PM, positioning it firmly as a dinner-and-late-night destination rather than a lunch spot. The skyline view is the central selling point: on clear evenings the Jiefangbei towers light up directly across the water, and the terrace tables closest to the railing are by far the most sought after. Because outdoor terrace seating is limited and weather-dependent, reservations are described as essential rather than merely recommended, particularly on weekend nights when the view draws large groups. Visitors should be prepared for a loud, informal, smoke-and-chili-scented open-air dining experience rather than an indoor, climate-controlled one.