麻辣香鍋

Extremely hot and spicy Mala Xiang Guo.

 

This is basically an all-in-one-pot meal of meats, seafood and vegetables cooked in mala paste. The taste is high octane and fiery; spicy to the point of causing pain and euphoria at the same time. It is a very potent combination of lip-burning herbs and spices, tongue-numbing Sichuan peppercorns and colon-cleansing hot oil. For the uninitiated, your first encounter with this mala experience will have you singing "hiho, hiho it's off to the can I go". HIHO, as in hot-in-hot-out. You most likely will have painful memories of the first encounter, but you will go back, again and again, because it is that addictive. It is The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of dining experience, all rolled into one. 

 

Ingredients : think in terms of shabu shabu ingredients - any meats, innards, seafood and vegetables you like, use them. You won't really taste them anyway. The sauce rules and overpowers all.

 

Condiments : (a) mala paste(as seen in pic 1, upper left corner. For beginners, use half a packet only. You want to be able to sit down the next day, hiho!), (b) cooking wine/light soy sauce/meat based broth/fermented bean paste/sugar(let's be honest, detail measurements don't matter, not gonna taste them either).

 

Cooking : heat 2-3 tbs butter, add mala paste (you should be tearing up in a few seconds), stir until fragrant, add condiments (b), bring to boil. Add ingredients - the ones that take longer to cook, meats and such, should go first, next come seafood and root vegetables, with leafy vegetables going last. Stir-fry until liquid evaporates. The fragrance and aroma will permeate the house by then. Take a deep breath, dig in, enjoy! 

You'll have plenty of opportunities to angry-tweet from the toilet, ala Trump, soon thereafter. Have plenty of cool, refreshing drinks on standby.

 

Ps. The last pic was from a restaurant in Chinatown in Seoul, my first encounter with mala xiang guo. It was an unforgettable experience, before, during and AFTER. Never sweated so much in my life!????????????

 

All joking aside, I highly recommend this dish!!!

 

所有跟帖： 

• 中秋節吃麻辣香鍋，很應景的感覺 ：-） -Jennifer_H- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 03:21:37

• 中秋烤肉喝酒賞月 -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 03:58:02

• 昨天去Hmart的food court, 韓國菜上漲更多，但吃客明顯減少 -npoaks03橡樹- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 03:32:30

• 韓國現在食物漲價也很厲害 -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 03:54:12

• 韓國現在也是過節吧？放幾天假呢？我兒子在韓國，去DMZ， 去竹島。現在板門店不讓遊客去了。 -zacao- ♀ (71 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 03:45:49

• 這裏放六天 -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 03:53:15

• 現在南北關係緊張，板門店是非之地，開放我也不去。 -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 03:57:07

• 板門店兩個多月前還可以去的。因為一個美國人擅自去了北朝鮮那邊被抓住，從此不讓外國人旅遊了 -zacao- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 04:24:41

• 金三胖不按常理出牌，還是不去為好 -npoaks03橡樹- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 04:28:09

• 現任韓國總統比三胖好不到哪裏去 -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 04:32:52

• 好吃，但巨辣 -akuan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/01/2023 postreply 06:42:52