Hot pot, string incense, malatang, take food they have the difference?

The lukewarm night of spring, attracted countless snacks and fast food, go out on the street, grilled cold noodles, oyster fans, roast chicken leg, stinky tofu, chicken fillet, take vegetables, flower hair powder, string incense, kanto boil, hot pot, malatang fragrance Qi mixed together, floating in the air.

Holding the stinky tofu in my left hand and the chicken fillet in my right hand, I constantly shuttle through the passing crowd to find my next goal. Thinking about the comfortable life, I had a real experience yesterday.
But on the way to the mall, I heard a foreign student constantly ask his Chinese classmates, what is the difference between the Chuanshuangxiang you just told me and the small hot pot I have eaten? What is the difference between that called malatang and this maocai dish here?

The Chinese students around him thought about these questions for a long time and didn't say why. They could only reply that you said good or not.
Not only this student, I believe that many people have no ability to distinguish between these highly similar things. Even I, a food editor, did not think of anything after careful consideration.
But it's a really interesting question, are they really the same kind of food? If so, why don't they have a name? With such curiosity, after several days of data collection, I finally found three differences. Today I will tell you what they are.

So instead of talking about the differences, let's think about why we think of them as the same species.
Is it because they all originated and grew rich in Sichuan, or they all have soup and ingredients, all boiled in water, or they all taste the same, and the boundaries of the ingredients are not clear.
It is true that there are some similarities, and it is not wrong to say that they are the same, but just like in the same university, some people study law, but some people study clinical practice, although they are all students in this school, there are still some differences.
First say the first point, that is the soup of malatang and MAO vegetables is drinkable, and the other two are not, at this time someone will say, string incense, hot pot soup bottom will be someone to drink, like my friend...... .

Although this sentence is right, but everyone think about it, when you eat hot pot ladle a spoonful of red oil soup bottom into the mouth, and shout out a happy? I believe most people won't, but most people can drink malatang or soup with vegetables without looking at them. That's the difference between them. It's small, but it's there.

The other thing is convenience. Malatang, taking food and so sweet, there is a small store, either directly to vendors can also do, but not in hot pot, New Year's day in the home to eat hot pot, a big table I'm afraid there are not enough, that's another difference between them, although small like a mosquito meat, but also can't say no.

Having said the soup base, the convenience, let's look at the last point, which is probably the biggest difference between them. That is to take the authentic dipping material is dry material, and other do not tube is oil dish and is sesame sauce, are "wet material". Although the dipping sauce is determined according to one's own taste, and some people also eat sesame sauce, the essence of maocai is to wrap the cooked ingredients in dry ingredients and put them into the mouth. This kind of spicy, spicy and fresh feeling is the essence of maocai, not sesame sauce.

In fact the whole three down, take food, hot pot, malatang and clusters of fragrant, more like a kinds of different branches, is simple and convenient, it must be and malatang and taking food and clusters of fragrant, but want to have vegetable soup, malatang and take food, if you want to acme costly full version, that is hot pot, want to taste rich, the taste is changeable, that is so sweet.

In fact, if you really want to say a few things, it is really very difficult, the relationship between them like malatang inside Yang Guofu and Zhang Liang, express in the Zhongtong, Shentong, YTO. Pepsi and Coca Cola. Are they really different? Well, they are, but are they significantly different? Well, not really.

In China this vast land, one heart to bring together is the Chinese food, but the vast territory, the Chinese food is divided into a number of subdivisions, and in a number of subdivisions, there are countless characteristics and a unique inheritance.
We, as eaters, don't ask, don't dig, just know, this food is good, it doesn't hurt to eat, that's all.