Mao in maocai and Tang in Mala Tang are both verbs. Maocai is made by putting the selected ingredients into a colander, cooking them in a pot, then putting them into a bowl, scooping up a spoonful of soup and adding various seasonings.

Mala Tang is a variant of hot pot. First, string the ingredients with bamboo sticks, then cook them in hot red soup, and you can eat them.

2. Different diets

Maocai usually uses bowls with rice, which can be shared by several people.

Mala Tang means that everyone gathers around a table, uses a red soup pot to take the ingredients they need, and eats them very hot, which is not worthy of rice.

Maocai:

Mala Tang:

3. The soup is different.

Pot bottoms in maocai are usually made of dozens of precious spices. The soup is mainly made of pig bones, supplemented by green condiments. Disposable pot bottom is delicious, nutritious and healthy.

However, the bottom of mala Tang has been boiling, and many people eat it by rinsing, so the nutritional value has basically been lost. Therefore, when eating mala Tang, few people drink soup.

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