What do you think is the difference between Malatang and maocai as authentic food? Recently, netizen 'shiziqing' expressed his confusion on Weibo: what's the difference between spicy hot and maocai? This seemingly simple question caused netizens to fry the pot, and even some netizens drew a 'genealogy', classifying a series of spicy families, such as hot pot, maocai, Bobo chicken, etc., and explaining them in the way of tree diagram.
The riddles of the century are hard to defeat
'really, what's the difference between spicy hot and maocai? Baidu looks more and more confused after a circle. This is a question asked by netizen shiziqing on Weibo by chance. Did not expect this question, but let everyone into a deep meditation, followed by all parties began to speak up on the Internet.
The reporter saw that the microblog was forwarded by netizens more than 30000 times in a short time, and nearly 4000 netizens discussed online, which was no less popular than an academic seminar.
'as an honest and dutiful Chengdu person, I couldn't answer it at the first time! So I went to ask for help from Baidu & hellip;' some Chengdu netizens even claimed to be 'ashamed'.
The reporter saw that the online explanation for the two is: maocai originated in Chengdu, which is a traditional snack with Sichuan characteristics. The continuous innovation of maocai has become a new round of strong Sichuan featured catering after hot pot and Malatang, and it is popular all over the country. Malatang is a traditional featured snack originated in Sichuan and Chongqing. Spicy hot pot is also improved by absorbing the advantages of spicy hot pot, which is the most distinctive and most representative of Sichuan cuisine in Sichuan and Chongqing.
Many netizens are still confused after reading Baidu's explanation. Aren't they a thing?
How to make a difference
Even though the online explanation is confusing, it's hard to see the world-class puzzles. According to their own practice, netizens from all over the country have given their way of differentiation. According to the wisdom of netizens, the reporter summed up the following methods:
With rice or not: 'I believe the one who sells Malatang has never asked you, classmate, do you want rice?' netizen 'Tianjin Bo young master' replied simply and roughly. It's one of the simplest ways to tell if you want rice or not. Many people said that maocai needs rice instead of spicy hot.
Soup more soup less, can you drink soup: soup more soup less is also considered by many netizens to distinguish the two elements, spicy hot soup more than maocai, many places spicy hot can drink soup, but maocai soup can not drink.
Eat by yourself or all together: a Shanghai netizen gives a way to distinguish whether you eat together or by yourself. He said that the spicy hot dishes they served were for one person. They could be eaten by one person or by a group of people.
When discussing this problem, because it's all spicy, people often unconsciously think of hot pot. So, the ultimate problem of the century comes: hot pot, spicy hot pot, maocai, chuanchuanxiang, cold pot Chuanchuan, Baobo Chicken & hellip; & hellip; what is the difference between them?
Later, a family tree of hotpot drawn by a netizen spread all over the Internet, and took the hotpot as the "ancestor", summarizing the "descendants" of maocai, chuanchuanchuanxiang and lengguo Chuanchuan.
Based on the information provided by the foodies, we can generally draw the following conclusions:
Hotpot: cook by yourself, not counting the signatures.
Maocai: it's cooked by others, not counting the signatures.
Malatang: others cook it. They sign it when they choose it. They don't sign it when they do it.
String incense: cook by yourself and count the signatures.
Cold pot string: others cook, number sign.
Chicken in pot: others cook, count and sign.