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Ma La Tang (Spicy Hot Pot Soup)
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Ma La Tang (Spicy Hot Pot Soup)

Choose your own ingredients! Customized hot pot for one person

Spice 6 Cooking difficulty: MediumNone
Everyone Hot Pot/Soup Customizable Healthy

Description

A single-serving Hot Pot. Diners pick their favorite ingredients from a massive display, which the chef then boils together with glass noodles in a spicy Ma La broth.

Restaurants serving Ma La Tang (Spicy Hot Pot Soup)

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The Recipe section below is a general reference, not a recipe from the listed shops.

Recipe

Ingredients

  • Glass noodles
  • Customer's chosen ingredients
  • Beef/Pork bone broth
  • Hot pot base(Ma La Di Liao)

Instructions

  1. [Authentic Recipe]
  2. Simmer beef/pork bones and whole chickens for hours to create an ultra-rich, cloudy white base broth (Pai Tang).
  3. Melt a chunk of 'Ma La Di Liao' (Hot Pot base)—beef tallow packed with dozens of spices, chilies, Sichuan pepper, and Doubanjiang—into the broth to create a blistering red soup.
  4. Take the customer's chosen raw ingredients from their basket (tofu skin, spam, lotus root, greens) and glass noodles, place them in a strainer basket, and flash-boil them in this broth.
  5. Pour into a bowl and serve, allowing the customer to add extra black vinegar or sesame paste.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips

Key spices

Hot pot base、Sichuan peppercorn

Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets

Store-bought hot pot base + favorite ingredients

Pairing

Coconut Milk Drink / Mini Pork Bowl

Trivia

[Trivia] Means 'Numbing, Spicy, Soup'. Because it's packed with vegetables and highly customizable, it has a massively overwhelming female customer base.

Eating tips & etiquette

[Unique Eating] Grab a tong and bowl, pick whatever you want from dozens of ingredients in the display case, and hand it to the cashier.

Allergen

Depends on selected ingredients

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