Exotic Chinese Hot Pot (Sezchuan Malat hot pot) @ Chuan Chuan Xiang 两三事小郡肝串串香火锅 @Sunway velocity – Approval or Veto?

Mala hot pot, otherwise also known as the China hotpot is my absolute next favourite of spicy food, after Korean spicy dishes of course. Plus, it’s one thing about the dishes, it is another about togetherness when it comes to eating. Hot pot meals are usually a lot more fun when eating with a whole bunch of your favourite people. And if they love hot pot, you hit the jackpot- I had this one with Clever Munkey as a post celebration for his birthday. With the many selections of China Hot Pot restaurants in Sunway Velocity, this one was the few earlier ones with charges of payment from weighing the skewer sticks. So instead of the usual grand and extravagant looking pot filled with lots of luscious red oil with dry with the ingredients nicely assembled to merge with the broth to give us what essentially is the ultimate essence of this sweat worthy meal, things are a lot more casual here with the flexibility to pick our own ingredients. I’d say it is a lot more enjoyable being able to estimate the serving size, instead of ordering the items and risking them serving in a large (extravagant) portion.

This spicy hot pot meal with Szechuan pepper as the main ingredient for the distinct hot pot spicy kick is usually a mix of heavenly spiced broth and super-spiced oil, and it is part of the fundamental of the history of this food that transcends time, space, geography, demographic and even sociocultural compositions. It is usually a bigger part in hot pot except this one didn’t quite stand out too much probably because the limelight will be the visual availability of extreme range of offal and entrails assortments at where you are picking your skewers. I didn’t enjoy the lack of vegetables and plants, but I do like the fact that diners are able to see the selections of the “menu”.