Soups
Malatang
麻辣烫
Sichuan, China
Self-served skewers and loose ingredients scooped into a basket, weighed, then cooked in numbing chilli broth and handed back as a bowl.
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What it is
A closer look at Malatang.
Self-served skewers and loose ingredients scooped into a basket, weighed, then cooked in numbing chilli broth and handed back as a bowl.
What to look for
Know it when you find it.
You fill your own basket from the chiller wall, so it is priced by weight before cooking. Sesame paste on the side is standard in the north, less so in Sichuan.
Where it belongs
Origins and
traditions.
Food rarely respects a border. These are the places the dataset connects most strongly to Malatang.
Sichuan, China
Region-specific tradition
Names around the table
One food, more than one name.
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