Different from the bubbly Hot Pot, in which you slip raw ingredients into broth kept roiling on a camp stove, Chef at Mala Project flips your chosen items from the listed 60 or so ingredients in a wok with a philter of chile and spice (cumin, garlic, ginger, cardamom, licorice, and twenty other spices…). This dry pot arrives in huge bamboo bowls, slick with oil, bathed in sesame seeds. You are going to get addicted!
The décor is tenement chic, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere that’s ideal for Friday night chill, with its floor paved with bricks like the Beijing hutongs, and skinny ancient lanes dating back to Kublai Khan.
麻辣(MA-LA)
香锅(Dry-Pot)
Ma- numbing
La- spicy